Stress On Your Body

[mamachick]

Stress has really got my health. I am trying to sell my house where I have lived for 15 yrs, as I can not keep up with it due to purely physical limitations. However, I have no idea where I will go or what I can afford. I dont know how I will get my stuff moved because my health waxes and wanes and sometimes gets real bad (probably related to stress).

Its like physical and mental just play off of each other. I feel bad and cant get stuff done-which stresses me and makes it worse-then I force myself and push myself and then am in worse pain. What a cycle to deal with and Im sure others understand this.

Things such as moving are bittersweet. While it has been my security, its not so much anymore. Yet it is the only secure thing in my life as the bottom has fallen out everywhere else. Yet another part of me can see it as a new beginning, growth, and opportunity. I try to look at it as an adventure. Then I almost panic because I dont really think anything good will ever happen for me. I need to change that belief and Im trying, it just keeps popping up on me. Anyone else do this???

 

[Dani]

When people tell me to relax, I smile and walk away. While in my head I'm screaming obscenities at them. I want to yell, "You don't know me" but I don't.
It wouldn't do anything except raise my stress level even higher. They are high enough. :/

 

[Gamereign555]

When I first saw this thread I was frightened, now I see it more as very important reasons to manage my ptsd as best I can.

 

[jimmy-joe]

Lol my body probably hates me for the stress I put it through

 

[Anna]

A couple of my collegues keep mentioning I am always stressed and anxious even if I do not feel like I am. The worst is the heart beat in the chest when you try to sleep. Boom boom boom, sometimes feels like my chest will explode. I have kind of adapted to the stress though and learned to live with it. My lightning fast reactions make it great when playing ball games with my families or catching ash trays falling off of tables.

 

[Powder]

Anna, I don't know if you will still see this, but if you talk to your Tdoc or Dr. you might ask about the heartbeat thing. I had that, and my "relax" meds didn't touch it. I told my Dr. this and she prescribed Clonodine, a blood pressure medication that helps those with PTSD to not have the heart racing/pounding at night, which contributes to nightmares. Wow. I noticed a HUGE difference with the Clonodine. I don't want to think about going off it. My BP has normalized also, back down to 90/60 like it was when I was young. So maybe this drug is helping keep me stable in some physical ways, too. (Disclaimer: I can't recommend this drug to you, as I don't know you and am not a Dr. And it may not work for everyone. Also there is another drug used for this that I can't recall the name of. So you'll have to just go and ask what may work for the heart thing, if you haven't already.)

I am having eczema really bad now. This list you have above seems like a checklist. Am I going to get all of it? Un-managed stress is, to me, stress. Managed stress is an oxymoron, like a safe lethal injection.

I forget to do my deep breathing 5*5 and this gets out of hand.

Anthony is right: we have to find a way to relax, somehow.

Muse

 

[PTSD sufferer]

Thanks for the article Anthony. Very helpful to understand the physical side of stress.