I’m a 21 year old male with post concussion syndrome and anxiety from a lifetime of contact sports and being a crazy child in my youth. Those on the forum for a long time probably know me well. I’m gonna try and right this post without any added drama or anxiety and just state things in a factual way and proclaim what help I need.

In a troubling situation right now that I really need advice for. Basically I had been doing really well for a while. In university, active social life, working, dating, etc. Not 100% back to normal physically but my life was basically one of a fully active person. Then exactly a week ago I was at a party when this massive drunk idiot came from my blindside and hit/shove/pushed me in the shoulder with 2 hands full force making my body whip to the side really hard. Didn’t hit my head or fall to the ground but got shaken up really bad and did not see it coming so my body was limp and just got flung a few feet to the side and my head and neck whipped with it.

The incident really jarred me up and I’ve been feeling quite awful physically since it happened. I’ve barely been able to participate in school or do any school work and I’ve completely shut down my social life. I really need help from the people people on this forum on how to process what happened and how to navigate where to go from here. I need to know if the best course of action is to try and push through how I’m feeling and continue with school/work/social or if this was likely a new brain injury that I should take the semester off to recover from. Should I treat this like a new concussion or more like anxiety/pcs setback/ neck injury ? How can I rationalize this and what’s the best way to move forward?

Just a bit confused because I have people telling me this very likely could not have been a new injury but on the other hand I hear people saying it very easily could be since I’m much more vulnerable and thus I should not do anything for a few weeks and see a neurologist and such. I feel like it’s two drastically different plans of action and I don’t know what to do.

Thanks so much for any responses.