Pseudo sickness and anxiety

[FreeSoul]

On 14 & 15 June, I was in a cafe and then in a restaurant respectively, and I noticed I wasn't looking around which I always did.

I would often look at people everytime they moved from their seats or when the cafe door opened.

There was complete silence in my mind, which is otherwise filled with chatter or images of people. I didn't even get the urge to think or to look around.

I thought it was the result of therapy I had been doing.

Few days later, I started digging into what therapy I had been doing days before 14 & 15 June.

Then I realised the previous week I had pseudo vomiting where I was acting as if I was throwing out, but there was no food coming out, only saliva.

I then realised I have had 2 similar experiences in the last 3-4 years after which I didn't feel any anxiety.

Did anyone else ever experience something like this where they had pseudo vomiting and after that their anxiety was gone for few days?

 

[Sideways]

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[Rose White]

Yes I had multiple bouts of pseudo-sickness when I was extremely symptomatic and working through terrible shit. Whenever I had that I took it as a huge sign to take my recovery seriously and not fight/resist what my intuition was telling me.

 

[Friday]

I’d gotten so used to the pseudo aspect, that I ended up in the ICU for a few weeks, with an actual big bag gnarly motherf*cker of a bug.

 

[RainbowSearchParty]

@FreeSoul When you mention psuedo-sickness, are you referring to somatized symptoms? AKA symptoms that are real, but their origins are psychological instead of physical?