Some advice to those struggling with PCS, especially young adults:

Do you use a smartphone? Get rid of it! Do you look at porn? Quit it!

Smartphones make it so easy to access the web and Facebook that you end up using it too much. For example, 65% of young adults use their smartphones in bed. The light from the screen disrupts melatonin production and the increased brain activity degrades your quality of sleep. Because the body does most of its repairing while you sleep, using a smartphone in bed hinders the healing in a big way.

Telling yourself "just don't use your smartphone" doesn't work because your phone is usually within arms reach at all hours of the day. So it's best to just get rid of your smartphone and switch to a basic phone. You know what you see when you check Facebook on your phone? Same stuff that was there 5 minutes ago!

Porn should also be abstained from while recovering from concussions. Internet porn has the same effect on the brain as cocaine. It causes artificially high levels of dopamine for extended periods of time which overstimulates the brain and impedes the healing. Side effects include brain fog, depression, erectile dysfunction, social anxiety and violent dreams. So watching porn exacerbates concussion symptoms.

Porn and smartphones can be very difficult to give up because once your brain becomes accustomed to that high level of stimulation it needs it just to feel normal and it will make you hurt if you try to take it away. So you have to reboot your brain and just go cold turkey. The good news is that eventually your brain will get tired of beating you up and life without those vices will become normal once again.

When I ditched my smartphone, I started getting an extra 2 hours of sleep each night! And when I quit looking at porn, for the first time in as long as I could remember, girls appeared in my dreams and I thought that was awesome!