I am 7 months post-TBI, having given myself a concussion and frontal lobe contusion getting into a car. In the last few months I have felt markedly better, but I have been noticing that I feel worse, often for days at a time, after bumps and jolts to my body/brain. Most recently, someone slapped me on the back very hard, and it seemed to have aggravated my symptoms.

I am questioning whether this increase in symptoms is real, or simply a product of my anxiety regarding future injuries to my brain. I would be interested to hear the experience of others in coping with what I view as inevitable shocks to the body as one returns to normal life.