[QUOTE=Spence93;1209724]Anxiety sucks. It was hell at first, but it's becoming manageable

Sounds to me like your getting a good handle on it. Recognizing anxiety is a huge success. It means your not so lost in it hat you don't know what is happening. Often times just reminding myself that this is anxiety helps.

I have heard good things about headspace too. Calm also lets you try some of their stuff free to give you an idea what it's like. What's most important is sticking it out good days and bad.

I just started the Buffalo treadmill protocol and am noticing some small changes. At this point I'll take anything. Keep walking, meditation and taking time to enjoy anything that you can

Anxiety is too probably my only lasting symptom from the concussion. Although having said that anxiety itself has a lot of symptoms, nausea, headaches, fatigue, etc can all be bought on my anxiety.

Like Mark says, its often really hard to differentiate what is an anxiety response and what is a concussion response. If I analyzed my own behaviour like you I had a tenancy for precursors to full blown anxiety, but it didn't hit me like it has 'post the event'. I also agree the concussion, or at least the stress from a possible concussion can be the event which creates the build up of anxiety.

Mark - I'm taking Ativan at most twice a week. As for getting to the core of my anxiety I have no idea what that could be. The dozens of symptoms I had and the few I now have all originated directly after my full blown panic attack. I can definitely say that I have taken as much stress out of my life as possible since then. I'm feeling better, but every once in awhile I get a set back day which doesn't seem to have any initiation. I just accept it and the next day is better.

My healing process seems to be two steps forward one back. I think eventually this whole thing will pass. I had that migraine weeks before the panic attack as well as noticing some light headedness. Maybe total coincidence, maybe not. My psychiatrist seems to think this is all PCS related and told me the anxiety should go away naturally and I should just treat symptoms as needed.

I don't know what CBT really entails, but I'm not sure what life style changes they could suggest for me to cut out any more stress than I already have. I don't work. The semesters almost over for college. But my psychiatrist is one of few professional opinions I've had. Do you think he is going about this poorly? Do you think CBT is a good way for me to proceed or should I give this more time?

MVTBI- It sounds like we go about this a lot in the same fashion. The apps are nice but are ridiculous expensive after this trials. I've already found some good youtube videos like you said so I can migrate after the trials are over. I've never heard of the Buffalo treadmill protocol. Is that similar to a stress test?

Newbie- I agree. I can have a variety of symptoms. I'm usually symptomatic all day. One may go away for a few days. Then I'll get a new one. The new one goes away, then the old one comes back. I think that's similar to my psychiatrist mindset. Now that I've realized I over stress about certain things I'll do my best to manage stress. As the concussion continues to heal I would think the anxiety would either go away or be minimized after X amount of time. There's a chance I'm totally wrong, maybe there is no concussion at all, but I feel there's really no way to know until more time passes and I can see how symptoms change.

Your reply to Newbie is the likely cause of your anxiety. The things you stress over are the likely cause of your anxiety. Stress feeds anxiety. The panic attack can even appear to be detatched from the stress. Stress causes mental fatigue that puts panic attacks on a hair trigger.

The personality that tends to stress over things is also ripe for panic attacks and even depression. What is so important that it is worth stressing over ?

Is it possible to only have your emotions depleted as a symptom and not anything else? That's how I feel right now. Everything is normal except my emotions.

Anyone? It normally doesnt take this long for me to heal from an anxious reaction to my "concussion" Just confused if its concussion related or not. Also I had a stressful event happen 3 days before I hit my head, so do you think that is playing a part in my symptoms?

once again, all i have is an emotional depletion after hitting my head very lightly last week and no other symptoms

Emotional depletion is a term I have not heard before. Flat affect is a common concussion symptom and also a symptom of depression.

Poor choice of words on my behalf...I meant that my emotions are everywhere. Im feeling anxious/depressed. This has happened before but it usually goes away after a few days. Now its been a week. I did have a very stressful event happen to me 3 days before I hit my head. Just wondering why and how to fix this

Nobody can say why. The solution is patience and reducing stress. You have not given us enough information to justify that you suffered a concussion. Anxiety and depression alone do not indicate a concussion.

Heres how it all happened.

I hit my head, then an hour or 2 later I feel my emotions scrambling and going everywhere. Exactly as if I had gotten a concussion. But that is the only symptom.

This has happened twice before, where I will lightly hit my head, and only feel an emotional symptom, and then it goes away a few days later.