Hey all,

I'm a bit embarrassed by my situation, because I feel like it's not as serious as most head injuries, but the worry has been consuming my life for the past month.

Now let me preface this all by saying that I've always had health anxiety and OCD. And for a while even before this incident I had been having anxiety about a past concussion I had 10 years ago, and I had been worried that it was still effecting me cognitively.

Anyways, a month ago I hit my head while standing up into bunk bed. Immediately my anxiety kicked in that this was a concussion even though aside form the pain of the bump I had no symptoms. About 5 minutes later I felt nauseous, which fed my anxiety more that this was in fact a concussion. However, it very well could have been the anxiety. Two days later I saw a doctor who said he didn't think it was a concussion, and my nausea went away almost immediately (anxiety?).

So that is all fine and good, but here's what I'm really worried about, and I know it sounds stupid. But with my OCD, I always tend to reenact events that I'm worried about, I'm not sure why, but I think that I'm trying to disprove to myself that I even need to be worried about the event. Anyways, that doesn't work so well when I'm worried about hitting my head, and over the past month while reenacting, I've accidentally tapped my head against the bed multiple times. Not hard at all, but like how you would tap your finger on a desk...

I've since basically broken that bad habit, but I'm worried that those small taps could have reconcussed me. Would those be hard enough hits to do damage? I'm just so worried about my brain at this point with school starting up in a week, and I'm worried I did permanent damage.

Sorry for the long rant, and thanks for reading