What is Active Brain Syndrome?

 I think I just coined this term but maybe it is already used by someone else too.

However, to me active brain syndrome is when you cannot sleep at night because you are dealing with real problems in your life (like staying alive after going to the hospital).

So, all these unknowns put you in new territory psychologically and physically than you have ever been in before.

Some examples in my own life of Active Brain syndrome (or being too worried about something to sleep) are the following I have personally experienced in my life:

Not sleeping because if I slept I would die.

This is an every day experience between ages 10 and 15 caused by a concussion rock climbing with my father. The problem was I could have a seizure at night any time i went to sleep and I knew that it would be very easy to die during any one of these seizures because they were so extreme. Because if I didn't have someone to hold my head during a seizure that my head might beat against the wall or other sharp objects during this seizure and die or I might also swallow my tongue during a seizure and die. So, sleeping was not my friend between ages 10 to 15 when I asked God to come live in my body with me and he did and suddenly all my seizures stopped when I did this.

The next difficult thing was becoming an adult at 18 which made me start to worry because of all the choices I would have to make myself as an adult. In some ways it would have been much easier just to become and electrical contractor and electrician like my father because by the time I was 18 I was already trained to do this. However, because my father was valedictorian of his high school class he insisted I go to college because he was never allowed to go to college by his father during the great depression.

And since my cousin had gone to USC and then NYU Law school on Scholarhips I felt pushed into college by my father whether I wanted to go or not.

However, college for me was wonderful because I love learning about the world and learning new things I didn't know before.

You don't know what you know until you know it!

Though there are many more instances of this my hands are getting tired typing for now.