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Old 04-09-2019, 04:38 PM #1
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Default Took a really bad fall while escaping a robber in my house, really devasted

I’m a 19 year old 140 pound male, Caucasian

I have asthma, allergies, post concussion syndrome from years of contact sports and bad ocd/anxiety

This morning a robber broke into my house and when I confronted him he tried to attack me. I managed to escape and since he had a weapon I ran to the closest commercial street. While running I had a really really bad fall. Didn’t hit my head but landed hard on my front and my neck may have whipped. Got up, kept running and called the police once I reached a public place.

I know this is was extremely stupid of my but I just panicked and adrenaline took over when I saw a huge guy with a pistol in my house and then screaming and coming towards me trying to knock me out or kill me. Regardless of the fall I probably also jolted my brain around even more through the all the running and jumping I did.

What I’m extremely worried about is the fall and if my life is over due to this. I didn’t hit my head but fell really hard on my body so there’s almost no way my brain wasn’t rattled and I’m already very sensitive to this stuff because I have post concussion syndrome. I’m absolutely in shock, completely terrified about the outcome of that fall. I know that whiplash concussions are possible and they often happen in car crashes. This is so so devastating, my life is basically over.

Went to the hospital immediately after talking to the police. The doctor there said he was not concerned about brain trauma because I did not hit my head however I know whiplash concussions happen all the time. Other then that I had bad cuts on my fist and fingers, cuts on the outside of my knee from falling on the side, severe bruising on my hip and a sprained ankle.
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Old 04-10-2019, 10:08 AM #2
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Hi Ben,

I had dealt with severe brain sensitivity for a long time. Any impacts, even walking was a huge issue for a while. Bumps to the head could mess with me too, even small ones.

Picture a glass globe. Now picture it having an impact and the physical structures of the globe have cracks and crack more easily with subsequent impacts. The globe is your skull and brain; they both actually can withstand lots of impacts and heal amazingly well. But if there are cracks within the globe (think of broken bonds between the atoms that makeup the neurons and other brain cells), then you will experience symptoms until the bonds come back together.

There are a number of ways to bring back the structural integrity of the cells. Diet is big. Red light therapy. Exercise is big. Cold water therapy. Matrix Repatterning. And so on.

The neck plays a huge role as well. There are tons of nerves and the brain stem. It twists with whiplash and gets damaged easily. I find infrared light therapy incredibly healing when I shine at the base of my skull especially. Very inexpensive ($30-40) for an incredible light.

I had terrible anxieties of my head with this sensation. The best way is to understand that you really are not damaging your brain any more with subconcussive impacts. Yes, you may be experiencing symptoms. I get that, and I had them. But realize them for what they are. Take your attention off of your head and brain area - there is too much focus there, speaking from personal experience. Focus with your eyes and attention on the task at hand and do not dwell on your symptoms.

You will heal. Keep at it. Let me know if you have any questions.

-Jacob
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Old 04-10-2019, 10:21 AM #3
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Just heard this too:

"You fear what you do not understand."

Understand this: Your physical brain and body need some tender loving care (TLC), but you must start with your mind and spirit, the immaterial. I have had more healing physically by addressing the immaterial in the last two months than trying to just heal my brain on its own.
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Old 04-10-2019, 12:34 PM #4
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I appreciate the response my friend. I’m not sure I understand, are you claiming this incident caused further damage to my brain or not?

I think a lot of the sensitivity issues were anxiety related for me more then anything so many of the things which really bothered me previously no longer cause any issues at all. However, this fall was just by far the worst incident I’ve experienced since this whole post concussion thing started so that’s why I am reacting the way I am.


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Hi Ben,

I had dealt with severe brain sensitivity for a long time. Any impacts, even walking was a huge issue for a while. Bumps to the head could mess with me too, even small ones.

Picture a glass globe. Now picture it having an impact and the physical structures of the globe have cracks and crack more easily with subsequent impacts. The globe is your skull and brain; they both actually can withstand lots of impacts and heal amazingly well. But if there are cracks within the globe (think of broken bonds between the atoms that makeup the neurons and other brain cells), then you will experience symptoms until the bonds come back together.

There are a number of ways to bring back the structural integrity of the cells. Diet is big. Red light therapy. Exercise is big. Cold water therapy. Matrix Repatterning. And so on.

The neck plays a huge role as well. There are tons of nerves and the brain stem. It twists with whiplash and gets damaged easily. I find infrared light therapy incredibly healing when I shine at the base of my skull especially. Very inexpensive ($30-40) for an incredible light.

I had terrible anxieties of my head with this sensation. The best way is to understand that you really are not damaging your brain any more with subconcussive impacts. Yes, you may be experiencing symptoms. I get that, and I had them. But realize them for what they are. Take your attention off of your head and brain area - there is too much focus there, speaking from personal experience. Focus with your eyes and attention on the task at hand and do not dwell on your symptoms.

You will heal. Keep at it. Let me know if you have any questions.

-Jacob
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No, I don't think it caused any damage at all. It's like when you bump a bruised muscle. It hurts (symptoms) but isn't damaging it any more.
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Thank you for the response my friend. Yah it was a really bad fall and I’m still kinda shooken up by it but maybe in the long run it will show me I can take more then I think. At least that’s what I’m hoping


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No, I don't think it caused any damage at all. It's like when you bump a bruised muscle. It hurts (symptoms) but isn't damaging it any more.
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You will gain more and more tolerance as your brain continues to heal. I suspect it will be a non issue in the near future.

I can play basketball now - I used to not be able to walk, but that was largely because of anxiety of the weird sensation. I get more dizzy from the blood flow/oxygen exchange of exercising too hard more than the impact most of the time now frankly.
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I am really sorry that you had to experience this. This must have been very frightening.

What strikes me is that you do not even mention symptoms. It looks as if your convinction that your "life is over" is not based on how you are feeling now, but on your anxiety about the fragility of a pcs sufferer's brain. This topic has been discussed many times, and your very pessimistic beliefs have been refuted.

Your tendency to catastrophize and exaggerate the consequences of innocuous events (the hairdresser, the kisses, etc.) is playing tricks on you again today, although at a different scale. I haven't seen any thread here where someone reported that her/his "life was over" after failing without hitting the head.

If you have symptoms, attribute them to the spike of stress hormones that you experienced. I once saw someone falling on the railroads in front of me while a train was approaching. We managed to save him but the intensity of the stress that I experienced magnified my pcs symptoms for a few days. I am saying this to tell you that you clearly need more time to see clearly through your situation, and I am confident that once the stress hormones have settled you will be back to baseline and stop worrying about this event.

What are your plans for today and tomorrow? I found that I am much more tolerant to incidents when I am busy and meeting people, than when I am alone, certainly because company distracts my negative thoughts away. If you can I would recommend that you reach out to people that you like and try to go out.

Take care.
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