cannonballed off a 12ft pier into very shallow water thinking it was deep.

@Callum bosua, with tough love, I am going to acknowledge that you are only 20, which gives you a lot of room and time ahead to learn a few things - like not asking strangers on an anonymous forum for medical advice and answers about force dynamics.

As @Booble said, if you think you're seriously injured, go see a medical professional. If you think you are NOT seriously injured (and remember that the reason for pain is to alert us to pay attention and take action if we are seriously injured) then you can probably perform recommended at-home care if you develop a minor bruise or ache later. Period. Especially at your young age.

Yes, and...???

...and - you missed the opportunity to engage your TMS knowledge and turn this incident into something else. Instead, you immediately went into fear mode, and took on a whole new thing to worry about. That's the complete opposite of what we want to do in this work.

Nope - don't separate it. It's all connected. Life lesson #1 - and lucky you, you're learning this at a very early age.

SO: again, you're only 20, which means that you are not just a newbie to TMS, but to life and decision-making. If you had been doing any of our programs (as I am sure has been recommended) perhaps you would have been far enough along that this incident would have resulted in an opportunity to change the inner conversation with your fear brain. If I had this thought after a fall in which I was apparently not injured, I would be briefly taken in by the fear message, and then start laughing at it, and then celebrate the fact that I am on to the bullshit that my primitive fearful brain keeps trying.

Many of us experience this all the time, in both big and little ways. By way of context, I am 71 and I've been doing this work for eleven years. And even before I discovered Dr. Sarno at age 60, I knew from many years of experience (and an active lifestyle) how to assess the seriousness of an injury - both immediately and delayed manifestations. And I've had more than a few injuries, major, minor, and zero consequences. Even "before Sarno", I understood the power and value of self-calming and positive visualization to heal quickly from obvious injuries and illness. It was the chronic nature of TMS-generated symptoms that almost brought me down in 2011.

Anyway, doing the emotional work in one of our programs is designed to get you to the point where you would assess this incident completely differently. The goal is to stop, calm down, and mindfully look at the fearful thoughts generated by the incident with skepticism and curiosity even if you're not yet ready to laugh at your primitive brain. Your post was a panic response, and also an example of what we call reassurance-seeking, which is often a form of TMS-based OCD. With more time and maturity, you might have posted this incident as a great example of how your fear brain reacted and caught you off guard, and what you learned from it, You could have done this without asking the forum any questions. And you would have avoided taking on a brand-new bunch of worries, such as why you didn't feel pain (um, perhaps because you're only 20? LOL - if only I could go back 51 years).

You are not there yet, but unlike many of us who came to this work late in life, you are SO lucky to have the opportunity to embrace mindbody knowledge at a really young age. And as I always say, it's not you - this is your brain on TMS.

The work is there for you if you're ready to make a commitment and just do it.

~Jan