The Brain Cloud

I had a pretty stressful couple of days the week before last. It was one of those times that nothing works out, I was behind in my studying and feeling pretty much overwhelmed by it all. Then the wierdest thing happened, I started feeling this pressure in my head, like I was wearing a tight hat, except that I never wear hats.

I had no idea what it was, so I did an internet search and the only thing I could find was that sometimes it's a symptom of stress. Of course, that made me stress out even more, if I'm having physical manisfestations of stress now, in the 3rd week of my semester, I'm definitely going to have a full nervous break-down further down the line. So yeah, it kind of freaked me out 'cause nothing I did made it go away, and even though it wasn't painful it was so very annoying.

So Sol encouraged me to go to the GP and get it checked and I got the full work up, and everything checked out, no brain tumors or imminent strokes due to high blood pressure. As it turns out it was probably just a virus. Apparently you can get viruses where you only get one symptom, like one joint that swells up and everything else is completely fine. Now that I think of it, it felt like having a really bad head cold, except without the stuffy nose, sore throat, etc.... that usually accompanies one.

Anyway, it's almost completely gone now, I still get little twinges now and again, but I'm happy to say I'm on the road to recovery. It really did turn out to all be in my head.