Anyone else get triggered or stressed or by wind?

[blackemerald1]

@Victory when I was a very little girl I used to run into whirlwinds...I loved them and I recall the adrenaline rush's of being almost or just briefly lifted off the ground. My thrills came cheap in those days apparently.:happy:

Is it my imagination or are the days of high wind increasing over time?

I have nothing but instinctual basis for this but I think they are or I am in the same boat as you & @Junebug now....

my symptoms are escalating

It makes me feel panicked and anxious

Power out's during a weather event also really trip my trolley bc I can no longer see (if it's at night) & that is two senses gone...

no matter how good an attitude I try to have

I know..I try and stay calms and not catastrophise it...

I'm totally exhausted when it finishes too:cry: with relief...

 

[NightSky]

Yes! One of my phobias is thunderstorms. Which has morphed into an insane fear of tornadoes. I’ve learned as much as possible about weather since I was a kid because I’ve always been completely terrified of thunderstorms and need to know how to read radar and watch for signs of severe weather. I’ve never had any weather related things happen. But I’ve realized it makes me feel trapped and that’s my number one trigger. It feels bigger than me, and forces me to stay put and not feel safe.

 

[joeylittle]

Yep. Specifically when it gusts straight into my face with enough force to block my ability to breathe. It’s such an odd feeling. And although I know in my mind it is only going to last a moment (because turning my face away from the gust stops the effect), it can send me right into the beginnings of a full-on panic or, worse, flashback.

I don’t have anticipatory anxiety about it anymore - so windy days don’t function as a stressor - but the actual effect of the wind is something incredibly visceral that I’m not sure will ever go away. I’m more mindful on windy days, and stay very present w/myself so I can manage the reaction if it happens. And I’m much better at managing it, now - it’s still just uncomfortable as hell, for that moment before I get my breath back.

 

[blackemerald1]

But at the same time I think mother nature and the weather is awesome and I can watch things happen on telly and go hell that looks amazing. A lot of the time I think oh thank goodness that isn't me. Things like tsunami's really shock me. Whenever I hear of a earth quake now..I think oh no tsunami!

I have this image of one of the tsunami's that the media reported on from a few years ago and it must have embedded in me so strongly.

Similar to when I was a young child I was at a relatives house and they had a television. Wow! I saw a young south Vietnamese boy shot point blank in the head by a North Vietnamese soldier. There was no sound but it is still so vivid. It certainly hasn't faded. :wideeyed:

 

[Lionheart]

I was once walking to the mall, during a particularly windy day, when the wind was so strong that I could feel my feet start to lift off of the ground! Our local weather team was just outside the mall, preparing to do a live shoot and they were having difficulty getting set up because of the winds.

I, for one, am terrified of tornadic weather / severe storms etc., so I found this incident to be disturbing!!! It immediately came to mind when I read the thread title. Presently living on the second floor of a building with no safe place to go in case of tornado, makes me rather anxious and when a storm comes, scared. Especially in the early spring of the year.

 

[Ronin]

The opposite. Winds calm me down.

Exception: Sea storms.

 

[Sweetleaf]

I was gonna post in this thread and say no but... then we had a pretty strong wind storm (it can reach like 120mph winds where I live sometimes)

My first one with PTSD

Holy shit, that had me so anxious and hypervigilant and on edge.