David BrimacombePost-concussion syndrome (PCS) recovery coach

Why Your PCS Brain Resists the Changes You Need #PCSRecovery #NervousSystem

11 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, David Brimacombe explains that forming new habits after a concussion or post-concussion syndrome (PCS) recovery is inherently challenging because the brain perceives such changes as a threat to the established identity built around symptoms, fear, and anxiety. He argues that the brain’s primary goal is safety, so it instinctively resists behaviors that conflict with the ‘recovery identity,’ effectively blocking attempts to adopt healthier patterns.

Understand that any new habit that you're going to form is going against the previous identity, that identity of recovery, that identity of living in those symptoms, living with that fear and anxiety of what life is going to be like. So if you then go ahead and make all these changes, your brain is going to stop you. It's going to say, whoa, no, no, no, no, we're not doing this. That is going against who we are. Your brain is simply trying to keep you safe, keep you alive.