Lui
05-13-2013, 06:55 PM
Hi! :)
If someone would help me and could read my story I would greatly apptreciate it!
My story:
I am an exchange student in the US and came here 10 months ago. I would turn out to be a nightmare. When I first arrived I had a really good time. But really soon I had great problems with who I was living with. A depressive and violent family with three little children that nobody took care of. The house was a mess and I thought about changing.
I was a soccer player back then.
So, one time at practise I headed a soccer ball and got a headache. I am overly anxious about my health sometimes and was immediately thinking about a concussion.
Turned out it was one. But just really mild. Well, in the time when rest was required nobody took care and I basically did not rest.
I was fine beside the deralization I got. I started to worry, to google and got more and more anxious.
Before that I already suffered from social anxiety.
Everybody told me that I had post concussion syndrome. I even went to ER but nothing could be found. On top of things I decided to change host families. I found one by myself. It was the most stressful time of my life.
But instead of enjoying the time with a new awesome host family I got more and more depressed. I would’t do anything which could damage my brain.
No quick headmovements, no sport, no homework etc.
I worried and worried, went into concussion forums and what I read dragged more into that and I though my brain was damaged. I thought a lot about dying and stuff.
After 2 MRI and 1 EEG I was finally reffered to a Neuro Psychologist after 7 months of continues brain damage thinking.There wasn’t a second I did not think about the symtoms I am experiencing.
-Derealization
-Visual Snow
-Tingeling
-Hot an cold flashes
-green flashes of light
-unsteadiness(can not feel my feet)
-depression
-lightheadedness
-muscle spasm
-tension headaches
All this developed slowly(beside the derealization).
The Neuropsychologist told me that she does no think that I am concussed anymore and what I was experiencing is a mixture out of anxiety and hormone issues( i have pcos). After that my Neurologist told me I wasn't having a concussion anymore. I strongly agree.
It was like someone hit me in the face. I should have been happy but now I was googling other stuff.
I am just interested what other anxiety sufferers think? Are this common anxiety symptoms? I have to stop worrying to get rid of the symptoms but I can't calm my mind because I constantely fear I have something else then anxiety.
Thanks
If someone would help me and could read my story I would greatly apptreciate it!
My story:
I am an exchange student in the US and came here 10 months ago. I would turn out to be a nightmare. When I first arrived I had a really good time. But really soon I had great problems with who I was living with. A depressive and violent family with three little children that nobody took care of. The house was a mess and I thought about changing.
I was a soccer player back then.
So, one time at practise I headed a soccer ball and got a headache. I am overly anxious about my health sometimes and was immediately thinking about a concussion.
Turned out it was one. But just really mild. Well, in the time when rest was required nobody took care and I basically did not rest.
I was fine beside the deralization I got. I started to worry, to google and got more and more anxious.
Before that I already suffered from social anxiety.
Everybody told me that I had post concussion syndrome. I even went to ER but nothing could be found. On top of things I decided to change host families. I found one by myself. It was the most stressful time of my life.
But instead of enjoying the time with a new awesome host family I got more and more depressed. I would’t do anything which could damage my brain.
No quick headmovements, no sport, no homework etc.
I worried and worried, went into concussion forums and what I read dragged more into that and I though my brain was damaged. I thought a lot about dying and stuff.
After 2 MRI and 1 EEG I was finally reffered to a Neuro Psychologist after 7 months of continues brain damage thinking.There wasn’t a second I did not think about the symtoms I am experiencing.
-Derealization
-Visual Snow
-Tingeling
-Hot an cold flashes
-green flashes of light
-unsteadiness(can not feel my feet)
-depression
-lightheadedness
-muscle spasm
-tension headaches
All this developed slowly(beside the derealization).
The Neuropsychologist told me that she does no think that I am concussed anymore and what I was experiencing is a mixture out of anxiety and hormone issues( i have pcos). After that my Neurologist told me I wasn't having a concussion anymore. I strongly agree.
It was like someone hit me in the face. I should have been happy but now I was googling other stuff.
I am just interested what other anxiety sufferers think? Are this common anxiety symptoms? I have to stop worrying to get rid of the symptoms but I can't calm my mind because I constantely fear I have something else then anxiety.
Thanks