Can anxiety make you temporarily worse?
 

I was wondering if short anxiety attacks can make your symptoms get worse for a temporary amount of time. I usually don't have any but I did something that theoretically could cause a concussion but in reality has a 0.0001% of causing one and I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I started obsessing over it and playing the scenario over and over which only made it worse. And while I felt pretty good most of the day one slight change seemed to make me start wondering and brought on worse symptoms. Is this something that anxiety can cause and simple confidence can restore? Thanks for any responses.

Sorry, I did not read anymore than the title...

Yes, anxiety can make you worse.

Yes it can. Anxiety alone can cause a brain fog and headaches to even uninjured people.

As the others said, yes, anxiety can make concussion symptoms worse.

Regarding your risk of a concussion, there are many things we do every day that with just a single wrong move can end up causing a concussion. It is the nature of life.

btw, What did you do ?

anxiety making things worse
 

yes - you have reached your threshold so no more stress can be processed by the brain, even small amounts of stress are intolerable than before. unfortunately insurance carriers and family friends dont get the connection so they think you are just not handling stress well and that is your only problem - what they dont realize is your ability to handle normal stressors is far less than before so you get more stressed quicker, its a vicious cycle