Stuck In One Emotion

[Abrasky]

I've noticed a thing about my PTSD is I seem stuck in one emotion. Does anyone else feel like they are stuck in one emotion. One particular emotion I have trouble dealing with is being upset. When I feel upset I don't get past it and seem to stay upset.So I'm perpetually upset. Feeling upset makes me shake sometimes.

My son's operation was cancelled today 12 hours before it was due to happen. We had just packed the car and were about to drive 3 hours away when the cancellation occurred. This upset me a lot and I started shaking.

 

[Reclusive]

That happens to me, too. The only way I've found to get totally out of it again is to have a nap, otherwise, I'll stay shaken up and upset until I go to bed.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Sometimes when I get upset I start shaking really bad. It can take me sometimes hours to stop completely. I also will get very, very cold or very hot. I really dislike it when it happens. I just have to try to relax and wait until the feeling passes.

 

[intothelight]

Hi Maze,

When I get upset, the adrenaline starts pumping and I can shake for hours. About the only thing I found that helps is some type of exercise, as it seems to burn off the excess.

Deb

 

[Ted Moen]

Over they years I have changed how I state some things. When I first came home from Vietnam I used to say when I get upset I shake. I was going to college then, and sometimes it would be so bed I couldn't read my own notes so I had to print in block letters so I could push hard enough to get through the shakes. People would look at my notes and comment how neat they were. Normal people don't have a clue :)

Anyway, these days when I experience the shakes I just remind myself it's just some mood passing in the background, and they probably mean I'm hyper-vigilant and sensitive to things the people around me aren't even noticing, so I need to check stuff out before I react because I could easily overact while the stuff is passing. That and I have to stay out of sand traps. I play golf and it's really hard to hit out of sand traps when you have the shakes ;)

Ted