Concussion

An impact. A jolt. A sudden shock that hurls your brain against the skull wall. Afterward: dizziness, nausea, disorientation, the feeling of standing next to yourself. The world becomes blurry, thinking sluggish, the simplest actions take effort. Your head — the organ with which you normally control, sort, and manage everything — suddenly no longer works.

Medically, a concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury. The nerve cells are briefly thrown off rhythm, information processing stalls, the organism shifts into protective mode. Viewed psychosomatically, a different question arises: what had to be shaken so hard that your body needed the blow — literally against the head?

The concussion is not an accident — it is a wake-up call.