Hey Tyler

I haven't been on the boards in a little bit. I'm 3 years out and doing pretty well, so as a consequence the bump-anxiety stuff doesn't plague me as much as it once did. But of course, last night I had the EXACT thing happen as you've described in this post. Woke up at 4am or so, misjudged the space around me and smacked my forehead into the wall. This is the most fearful of a symptom regression I've been in a while. Partially because my original hit was a result of me (forcefully) slamming my head into the wall.

But thankfully, I'm quite optimistic. These days I teach for a college, so I relate to what you said as well; there are quite a number of tasks in my queue at any time, and the disruption of a symptom relapse would not be super fun. I have found that the minor bumps i've had in the past few months, while they can definitely evoke a 'spaced out' feeling from the anxiety, I basically tough it out for a day, maybe i feel a bit slow teaching my class that night, and then the next day I'm back in the groove.

Anyways, not sure where I'm going with this, but hopefully you're feeling back to your normal self now, and I'm gonna try my best to put it aside and just do what I gotta do to ignore my anxiety and in doing so reassure my brain that everything is going to be okay. I often think of mark's metric of 'bowling ball from a foot up' level of force needed to cause any real damage. Even though a wall is of course pretty rigid, there would have to be some serious velocity involved to approach that territory; so since my head just meandered into the wall I think i'll be fine...