Me vs the window sill
 

Mark or Bud if you're out there, please help me out with this. (Or anyone, please.) I don't want to worry my entire long weekend.

My cat was sitting in an open window and I went to lean down to give her a kiss on the head and bumped my forehead/a little above my forehead on the hard plastic sill that sticks out at the top where the window is open. (The part you pull down to close it or up to open it)

Since then, I've felt out of it, dizzy, headaches, blurry vision, etc. I keep trying to tell myself that a bump like this wouldn't bother someone without the history.

Do you think this qualifies as a concussive impact? (Banging my forehead on a plastic window sill?) How many G's would this even be?

Thank you, appreciate it.

Is anyone out there? Feeling really alone in this tonight and scared.

This was not damaging. It was just a trigger of your Concussion Anxiety Syndrome. As Bud would say, If this would not have caused you concern before you became focused on concussions, why should it worry you now?

Your anxiety is taking over your life.

What are you doing to resolve your anxiety?

Thanks, Mark.

It’s terrifying because the bump has all of my symptoms returning - headaches, blurry vision, feeling out of it and tired, etc. It’s crazy what our bodies can do and that they can manifest all of the symptoms like this.

It’s good to know that something like this is just anxiety and i can go about living my normal life without it being damaging.

I’m seeing a therapist currently, and take an Ssri for anxiety. Neither have helped too much, so I’m exploring my options.

Concussion anxiety feels so real that it’s hard to just dismiss it as “in our heads.” I get so worried it’s going to be something serious and it’ll send me down a spiral like last time. I’ve finally reached a pretty good spot in my recovery and I’m terrified to go backwards.

You're not the only one - I was having a great couple weeks, feeling mostly like myself with a solid mood to help me look past minor symptoms; I even went on a road trip with my brother and had a great time. Then Saturday I go to my friend's pool party and end up throwing around a nerf foam (thank god) football, only to be in the water when someone guns it at me and it goes right through my hands and at my forehead.

The way I have calmed down the rational side of me is to think that people take headers all the time in soccer- not only is that ball more dense, but usually the person even jumps into the header, which would be even more of a momentum transfer vs. I was just standing there. Obviously, it's ridiculous that I have to think about things like that but nonetheless I've felt like crap the whole week, pretty unable to focus. Feeling pretty confident that I'll be back on track, but not knowing is obviously kind of a soul crushing prospect, and I haven't really been able to fully enjoy the festivities of this week that I was genuinely looking forward to (that's always how it goes...).

In any case, I'm mostly looking on the bright side that it wasn't a true leather football, in which case I would've probably had a full on freak-out (even though people probably get hit on the head with these all the time... or do they? i dont even know)

It’s good to know I’m not alone in this. Thanks for sharing your experience, too. Anxiety is a crazy thing. I keep trying to rationalize it - it was plastic, people bump their heads on things all the time, etc. but the fact that it was hard enough to leave a bump on my forehead is throwing me for a loop. Wishes for both of us to begin feeling better!