I have experienced this same nervousness about if or when will hit my head again and still do, though to a lesser extent.

Also have the issue with being served when in a restaurant! Think the best approach is to stay still.... (Also admittedly don't like sitting on an isle seat in a restaurant with people walking behind me).

It has made me develop what can seem outwardly I'm sure like strange habits/ thoughts, which use to protect myself like:

- Ducking under lamps, even if they are reasonably high above my head
- Be quite apprehensive about walking in a crowd in rush hour and passing people quickly
- Be apprehensive about walking on the side of the pavement and getting hit by a bus wing mirror
- Getting into cars really slowly
- Being very careful of the car boot
- Opening doors very slowly
- Conscious when sitting on a bus of being hit by elbows or rucksacks as people move past me
- Checking whether I may have hit my head or not when unsure
- Being quite slow and ducking perhaps excessively on public transport, whether on a bus or train

All of the above, particularly checking if I may have hit my head are very time consuming. Whilst don't want to be careless and would not advocate that, I think if there was a scale between being careless on one side and hyper vigilant on the other, then need to move more into the centre.

These habits may have helped me to avoid hitting my head more, but equally might have made me more vulnerable to it too; think it is perhaps safer to be very careful at key times, not all the time. These habits certainly make me think about my head more, which often encourages negative thinking.

So to reduce the above, I worked on the conclusion that does not matter whether have these habits or not, it is still likely that will hit my head at some point. So why bother worrying about it; the choice not to worry is the right one.

Subsequently have been more assertive when walking down the street and more natural in my movements, which has made me more confident.

Also, happened to be describing the above habits recently to my best friend. Rightly or wrongly, we just ended up laughing at the abnormality of it. Would not laugh at another person in a similar situation; this whole challenge, which never expected or thought would have, has made me more emphatic, but found laughing at my behaviour, helped to provide some of the stimulus to stop the time consuming protective habits that have developed. Although for me, the roots of these habits are rational and lie in past experience.

The laughing point is a delicate one, and does not reflect overall attitude to those that are understandably fearful of hitting their head again, but since it helped, thought would mention it. Maybe it is preferable to crying over it and the seeming injustice of it all, which recently, have also done.

Hope your symptoms improve.