Ud, Sebastian's everyday life is very reminiscent of that of his friends with full-time study, strength training and a sweet girlfriend, but behind the facade often hides a bad headache, a lot of worries and a feeling of not being taken seriously.
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While Sebastian stands in the middle of the gym doing a quite ordinary bodyweight exercise, he suddenly notices a small bang in his neck. He raises his hand and hurts, but it's only when he gets home that the pain really starts.
“The tension headache most often settles in my neck and slowly creeps up in the back of my head.”
Het in, a. In the years that followed, Sebastian suddenly had to learn to live with a recurring headache. Het milder tensionheheid heeft kan met over-the-counter medicien, maar heeft ook geleden. “For the more serious headache attacks, I think it feels like facing a tsunami without being able to move. I feel that a bad pain is coming, and I'm just forced to wait for it to come,” explains Sebastian. But although over the years he has become more aware of what can trigger the excruciating pain in the back of his head, the lack of understanding from the outside is still hard to contain.
As with many other young people, social life involves going out on weekends and drinking beers with friends, but for Sebastian it has often been associated with a lot of discomfort. A bad sitting position can immediately trigger a headache, so meeting for a pizza on the grass in a park or sitting on a bar stool without a backrest is a no go. It may therefore at times preclude some social events. “And then I can't drink beer at all. “Not with or without alcohol,” he said. But when Sebastian tries to explain that he would rather not go to the city, as it always triggers his headaches, he does not really experience being understood. Sometimes even a snide remark is thrown on the fly. “There are a lot of people who don't take it seriously and it's not that great. I think they are thinking that I just want to avoid getting a hangover and that they will also get a headache themselves. But I always have a headache for about 48 hours afterwards, so it's a high price to pay,” he says. It also makes the fact that there are not so many people that Sebastian talks about with his headache, as he often feels he has to defend himself.
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In the past, he tended to neglect his headaches and just bite his teeth together, but now he has more started to say and opt out of some of the things he knows will cause an unpleasant pain in the back of his head. “When I actually started including people and how long I'd gone with it, they had a hard time understanding why it was suddenly a problem now that I'd been doing fine up until now,” he explains, stressing that he wishes he had been more open about it in the first place.
På en Sebastian. “I also think it's hard for others to understand and acknowledge it if you don't do it yourself,” he says. He has therefore tried to map out his various triggers, which have greatly helped him. Há,. For example, for five years I thought I couldn't stand wine and that exercise could trigger it. But after testing it, I have found that it is exclusively beer that I do not tolerate and that only a few exercises trigger the headache”, he says. He describes in a happy voice how it gives a sense of victory and that it offers a kind of hope to get closer to a normal life than what he has been used to. “It helps to feel that you are in control of your life, rather than just having some disorder that comes and controls it. It is still difficult when my old comrades do not quite understand it, but I hope it will be easier in new friendships because I myself understand and recognize it more”, he says.
Sebastian has just picked up the pegs from North Jutland and has headed to Odense, where he is going to read his candidate, but while it is exciting to meet new people, it is also something he dreads. “I've been thinking a bit about how to deal with social issues, and I'm not super into it, as I don't like having this conversation with people,” he says, and continues: “Fortunately, there are mainly girls in my new studio, and I have better experience that they take it more seriously and understand it to a greater extent than my peers. So I've actually thought about trying to be more open about it”. Sebastian explains that the headache has become easier to rest in and be open about after he understands it better and has learned to accept it in a different way.
