Back in January of this year, I hit my forehead on the ground falling off my scooter. I mainly suffered from depersonalization (likely due to my extreme health anxiety of having brain damage of some sort). I didn’t have a headache, nausea, no loss of consciousness, just felt a bit woozy when i Got up after falling. I was super worried about what happened to me, and I had an extreme amount of anxiety and stress, which I never really had before. This caused me to have some pretty bad brain fog, along with the depersonalization

I also never went to see a doctor because of how busy I was at the time (college student, our health center was not good either). Slowly these past months, I have been feeling a bit better from the depersonalization/fog, but my health anxiety never went away. I was constantly googling causes of depersonalization, and seizures popped up a bunch.

Then, after constantly searching and obsessing over seizures, I started feeling the symptoms of TLE (deja vu, butterflies in my stomach). These started probably a couple of months after my head injury. My depersonalization was already there right away, but these TLE symptoms only popped up once i started thinking about it non-stop.

My question is, would it be possible that I developed TLE from hitting my head (without any big symptoms besides depersonalization and anxiety)? Or is it just my extreme anxiety manifesting these symptoms?

I feel like my brain is just constantly looking to see if its feeling deja vu 24/7. So i’m thinking it may just be my constant obsession and fear over it.

Hi allin99

Welcome to NeuroTalk .

This information about TLE may help you.

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

Best wishes.

Thanks. I’m confused because it says “severe tbi” can be a cause but mine was not severe at all. No loss of consciousness or anything. That’s what is making me think I may just be overly anxious

Anxiety can cause some symptoms and/or perceived symptoms.. the mind is a powerful thing..

Work to calm down your anxiety level & hyper focus on symptoms.. and see if those symptoms fade away for you.

There is info on how to help calm the mind on you tube, and mental health websites.
Here is one to explore - Anxiety Disorders: Symptoms, Types & Treatments | Psych Central

Thanks, i will look into it. What do you mean when you see hyper focus into it?