I see all these posts complaining about how long their recovery is taking but from these same posters, I don't sense much effort is accepting the current symptoms and learning to work-around, work-with, or accommodate them.

The biggest detriment to recovery is STRESS. Stress effects good sleep. It causes relational stresses. It impacts just about every single body function.

I went so far as moving 650 miles away to an area with much less traffic, social tension, political tension, noise, pollution, etc. And this was prior to my injury of Jan 16, 2001. I had suffered 2 concussions, one in 1996 and another in June 1999. Both demonstrated how the stress of the San Jose area was being counterproductive to my life.

There are others on this forum who have made changes to lower stress levels and are doing better because of it.

We need to reinvent our lives, at least in the short term, to lower stress so our brains can heal as much as possible.

The simple fact is NOBODY recovers 100%. This fact is supported by research. Stress is the primary cause of any return or prolonging of symptoms. Take someone who thinks they have recovered 100% and put them in a stressful situation. Bam, at least some of their symptoms will return. They may falsely attribute the problems to something else due to the disconnect from the prior concussion.

So, reinvent a lower stress life, get better where you can, accept those things that did not recover to your liking and learn ways to successfully live with them.

Give up on any desire to return to multi-tasking. Recent research shows that the human brain is not very tolerant of the stresses of multi-tasking. Our injured brains are just putting a more severe limit on the multi-tasking habits.

CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) can teach you how to change reactionary stressful thinking to lower stress concepts. But as the psychologist joke goes, You have to want to change.

There is life after concussion. There is no promise that it will be the same. But, that does not mean it can not be full and meaningful.

Make better day to day choices and stop thinking that someone else is going to fix you.

I can look back at my life and see the small permanent losses from each concussion. When I took steps to reduce stress, those small losses became less noticeable. Put me in the midst of a stress mess and all of my symptoms come blaring back full force. Katie bar the door, the monster is back, or the zombie.

This is not a "Is the glass half empty or half full question." The question is simpler. Is the glass that we want to be full just TOO BIG?

A few of us have the advantage of age. We lived in the days when daily life was much simpler. I remember when the only things that were instant were Minute Rice and Instant Coffee. People had to take time to do daily life.

Kids played outside in their own neighborhood. They organized their own activities if they wanted to. Pick-up games of baseball, football, street hockey (in Keds), hide and seek, tag, etc.

Now, the entire month is filled up with 'organized' (by adults) activities. Adults use day-timers or smart phones to squeeze every minute of every day. No time to make a cup of coffee and sit down and enjoy it. We complain about not enough cup holders in our cars. We get addicted to and/or dependent on Tweets, texts, GPS, that add more stress to our days. We need zero calorie 'energy' drinks to make it through our days. We consume zero nutrition 'food.'

Then, we complain about getting hurt and needing to wait for our bodies to recover.

Yea right.....

My best to you all.