Skull Pressure

It feels as if your head were pressing from the inside against its own walls. Not like a headache that stabs or throbs — but like a dull, heavy compression. As if your skull had become too small for what has been building up inside it. You reach for your temples, your forehead, sometimes the back of your head — and feel this strange pressure that cannot be located, yet is present everywhere.

Medically there are explanations: tension, fluctuations in blood pressure, sinus problems, shifts in fluid. And sometimes that is precisely what it is. But when the pressure keeps coming back — when it becomes chronic without a clear physical finding — a different perspective is worth taking.