Hey! I am back with yet another paranoid concern for my mental health! On a quick side note, if you're experiencing deja vu regarding this type of question within this category and even my profile, there is a perfectly plausible reason for this. My previous thread from not too long ago was: "Can you get a concussion from turning your head too fast?"

And btw, thank you so much for your thorough replies. I am still grateful for them at this time. It's so delightful to know I can always turn up on this forum if my worries exceed my capacity to comprehend it.

Something I am currently wondering, since I've been so anxious about the question specified in the title, during to agitation being triggered by merely a friendly intended slap on the back of my head, by a acquaintance in school. He tapped me 3 times to be precise, now this might just be me overestimating my memory of the "impact", but it felt pretty rough to be considered taps to the head. So to be on the safe side, I would say it was taps at the brink of being slaps.
Ofc, there is no way I, or anyone, can prevent or foresee the actions and urges of other people, friendly intended or not. He is a very nice guy and could've in no way known I am very fragile about my brain. You guys know the taps you do to signal: "Hey, everything's gonna be alright"?, it was one of those, if you guys can follow me . Which leads me to think that my slightly altered perception of the world after the slaps/ rough taps is really my anxiety spiking?

Also, doesn't soccer players head the ball at much higher impact and mostly only at risk for sub concussive impacts even then?

So well, to wrap it up, since I've had no deficits in physical symptoms nor cognitive symptoms, emotional symptoms such as anxiety must've been caused by natural reactions in the body? I mean, I've always thought that anxiety/depression is a complication of mTBI in extreme cases, and something that only rarely manifests itself in PCS.