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Old 06-11-2018, 06:26 PM #1
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Help Hitting head another time help please

I just stopped crying to write this. I dont now what to do.I was so good about not hitting my head again. but I was going up the stairs and forgot something, so i turned back and whacked the side of my head on the part of the wall. I dont want to get post concussive again or brain damage or havemy entire personality change. Im so scared I dont know what to do.
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Find a therapist to teach you Cognitive Behaviors to stop this irrational thinking. Bumping the wall was likely not even a sub-concussive impact. Even if it was, subconcussive impacts are harmless unless you have many in a short period, like a hour or two. I doubt you stood on the stairs and repeated that head bump into the wall over and over.

Your anxiety is more damaging that a simple bump like that.

You may want to learn to slow down with movements in confined spaces. Learn to move with purpose, not reactively.

CBT, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, is a process where you learn to redirect anxious thoughts away from the obsessive thoughts that can mess up your life.

For example, In this case, as soon as you bump the wall, you tell yourself, "That was just a bump. It was not an injury. I am fine. I will be OK. Maybe I should slow down."
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I tried that before and it didn't work out so well. I feel like this could be serious though since I hit the side of my head really hard and I still have a headache. And I've hit it before.
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You could have a headache from the rise in blood pressure from getting so upset.

What makes you think you will suffer a personality change?

It takes a very severe concussion to damage the personality part of the brain. Not just a bump.

If CBT did not help, it is likely that you do not believe that minor head bumps will not cause brain damage. If that is the case, I don't know how anybody can help you with your fears. If you will not accept the simple fact that the occasional head bump will not damage your brain, you have doomed yourself to these over-reactions to meaningless head bumps.

Are you willing to concede that these minor head bumps are not damaging?
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I guess, maybe you are right. Its just so hard to relive hitting my head again, so its difficult to know what signs and symptoms are real and which ones Im exaggerating. And I've already hit it a few times before so I know how cumulative these things are.
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zant,

You cave told us about your minor bumps but you have never explained your two concussions. Were they serious concussions or just strong head bumps?

Many have come to believe that any head bump with any pain is a concussion. That is not true. Many head bumps that cause pain are not concussions.
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Doctor said first one was probably a concussion they werent so sure about the second time. First time was when I was ducking to walk into a house and banged my head on the ceiling.Only symptom was a headache for 5 months. Second time I banged my head on a low pipe. This time it was headache and fogginess for almost a year. I probably bumped and did minor hits since then but this recent one is the only one I can remember hitting this hard.
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Thank you for all your insight by the way, Im sorry if I came off as rude or irrational.
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