I have been being treated for depression, mood swings, attention deficit disorder, sleep problems and... in short, pcs symptoms... since shortly after suffering my first concussion in 1984.

I was a hockey player, and an acrobatic skier, and a crazy, tomboy, thrill seeking girl and I believe that the total number of concussions I had, before being told I couldn't play hockey or even softball any more, was 13.

I've heard about pcs, but stupidly thought that what I've been experiencing for over 20 years now has been mental illness. It may prove to be just that, but the symptom list I've just read for pcs, pretty much describes to a tee... my exact problems for these many years.

Could it be that pcs is what's been destroying my life all this time? If it might be, and or if I can somehow find out if I do indeed have it, are there treatments other than the slew of psychotropic medications I take daily?

Sorry to jump on and just start asking questions, but if I try to search previous threads and so forth for answers, I'll be 80 pages in and find myself reading about something totally unrelated that caught my attention...

Thanks for any information any of you can provide.

Mp

Yes its possible for all the things to feel like a mental illness if thats what your asking. Its a combo of things that can hit at any time.

You can feel fatigue, depression, dizziness, just not wanting to go on at the time, and just that for some reason you give up. But the thing is that if you
don't know why your feeling all these things you don't have a way to start to feel better to a degree.

SO you start to get more depressed and down on yourself. You think you shouldn't be feeling this way and you get more down. Because you have been feeling this way for so long you may have a long way to feel a lot better and it may be that you are going to need a anti depressant too.

But it will get better because your going to know that probably the injuries you had the concussions and the times that you just didn't quite get over them are probably part of your problem too.

So now we need to help you find ways to feel better. You might try by seeing a neurologist that deals with issues of headaches and if you have vertigo or balance issues. These kinds of things.

Donna

I'd recommend craniosacral therapy and syntonics if you're looking to go the non medicinal route.