Random Shaking

[Emilie]

I find myself shaking in social situations.. it's been a lot worse lately. Like when I go to buy something, and I'm handing over the cash, my hand will start to tremble like I have parkinson's. It's only socially. I twitch sometimes and stutter too...if it's not that...then I'm talking really fast.

Anybody else experience this?

 

[Lucycat]

Yes!

For me it is all worse once I start thinking about it. I am sure, for me anyway, it is all simple anxiety. I have asked my husband not to comment if he notices anything, and that helps. The question 'why are you shaking?' is likely to make me run for cover...

 

[KP the nut]

Last year I was shaking so badly, I didn't dare carry a cup of coffee. It was worse in social situations or in public. It was also very noticable in EMDR with my T. he could gauge how I was feeling by the shaking.

As I have progressed through T, my shaking is not so bad although I am still conscious of it. I use it as an indication and if I become aware I do a quick body scan for other symptoms. I then take the necessary action, breathing, grounding etc.

If others notice, let them. It is quite surprising and something I learnt from my T that people are often caught up in their own worlds to notice.

Take care
kp

 

[Ted Moen]

Tremors are a symptom of ptsd for some people, including me. When I came home from Vietnam and went back to college, I had to learn to print in big block letters because if I tried to write it was not legible, even to me. Nowdays, they still come and go. I have a hard time hitting out of sand traps because you can't ground your club in a trap and if I don't ground my club it picks up the tremors and magnifies them, so I've learned to set the club on my toe, take a deep breath, and push it out to the ball and back into my backswing in one motion. Usually works ok :)

From time to time I have to remind myself it's just ptsd stuff and not parkinsons or something like that.

Ted

 

[KP the nut]

When I came home from Vietnam and went back to college, I had to learn to print in big block letters because if I tried to write it was not legible, even to me.

Agree with you on the handwriting, although mine is mostly legible it is nowhere as neat and nice as it was.

 

[mamachick]

I have had foot and facial twitches for no apparent reason. However, my sister could not resist commenting which made it worse. They seen to be getting better when not given attention, and my sister not being around.

 

[Froggie]

Ditto for me too, but this shaking seems to happen with or without social influence. My youngest son was so surprised to see this as I used to have really steady hands - a sugeon's dream. Now, I have to take several series of pics just to have one that isn't blurry.

 

[AuraBunny]

I do it mildly in social situations too. I am pretty shy, so people think it's a part of my personality. Its comes out when I have presentations sometimes, or even just chatting with people I barely know. I used to be a social outcast and also went through abuse, so I would imagine its probably because of all that.

 

[Meadowsweet]

I shake at random times and am yet to work out why. I find it more embarrasing when I stumble on words or my laugh or my voice comes out strangely with nerves. And sometimes I find myself completely stuck for words or having a mental blank about a name or place that I should know well.

But, when I come across other people who are showing those signs of nerves, I don't think badly of them. So I like to think that people don't think badly of me.