adip19,

This is a memorized and practiced reaction to a 'perceived' impact. There may have been contact but no impact. You admit to this thought being a pervasive thought. You are setting yourself up for all of the symptoms you are experiencing.

Think of this. In your 20 or so years of life, last October was your only concussion. You have been hugging people and making head contact for a lifetime without causing a concussion. This hug with head contact is no different.

Only you can convince yourself that this was not a concussion. We can give you the facts but you have to decide to believe them.

"Through this website and even by word of mouth I feel like I've only heard of people walking away from head to head hits with a concussion."

Where did you get this idea? We speak against this idea all the time. The only head to head hits that result in concussions are those competitive headers on the soccer field. I can't remember when anybody on NT has reported such a concussion.

The baby's head to the chin was not a concussion. The rolling over in bed and making head contact is not a concussion. The hugs with head contact are not concussions.

College can be full of anxiety without adding false issues to your life.

The simple fact is: You can have a memory of concussion symptoms that you can causes to be recalled and replayed just by thinking about those symptoms while in an anxious state. You can imagine a head contact and manifest the full range of symptoms. What you feel is real. The cause is false.

It is no different than thinking about a scene in a movie that caused nausea or another strong symptom. Once you programmed the feeling of nausea, the next time you think about that scene or one like it, you brain will recall the nausea and you will feel nauseous.

These are fashbacks common to PTSD.

Stop feeding this monster with wrong thoughts. Find somebody to help you reprogram your thought response to head contacts. Unless you change how you think about head to head contacts, your life will be miserable as you tie yourself up in anxiety.

Stop doing any research about concussions. Most of what you find online is full of errors in how the information is presented or is presented without proper context.