What Was/Is Your Weirdest Symptom?

[Katja]

Stomach soooo incredibly sensitive to everything.....and of course it acts out more when I feel trapped...but has gotten better. Self harming...like picking and scratching so that it starts to bleed...which actually feels soothing and is a very hard habit to get rid of.....rashes...I think it is from inner stress....
Oh don't I love having this sh-t!! Sorry Today I was feeling so out of sorts and weak and different and lonely...this are all ghosts from the past when I was told I was crazy and oversensitive while all the incest was going on that I totally blocked out...no wonder I had a stomach ache! Sometimes I start berating myself for making it bigger than it is...but it was not a good situation...anyone recognize this way of thinking?

 

[Lucky Laser]

Sometimes when I am triggered and trying to hide it I become a total buffoon and suddenly can't remember how to do simple things like get food from a buffet or start my car. My face also turns red, which at least lets my husband know something is going on. He says I have other signs that let him know but he won't tell me what they are. :p

 

[Claire]

I developed a stutter when under any pressure.

I used to be scared of the washing machine on spin and the food processor.

I lost the ability to judge time passing totally. It used to really annoy me. In the end I stopped wearing a watch (which come to think of it wasn't very bright really!)

 

[Deleted member 541]

In the pit of my stomach I get a feeling like I am falling from a very high place. It's so strong, at times, that it is almost painful. I love it when I am sleeping and it wakes me... NOT!!!!

I used to have anxiety that was so bad, I would get a tingling, numbness that would start on the roof of my mouth, move to the top of my head and down both arms. Dr thought I was having a heart attack. Turned out to be massive anxiety.

 

[fin]

Been there with both of these perhaps will be again but I do think I am trying to take better care now. Although I do know I have far to go on this here. SOO much farther

 

[Blues in NYC]

One more that I would add, because I'm having it right now (two bad days in a row! WHEEEEE!): when the anxiety of the world has built up under my skin to a certain level, I start getting a few Tourrette's like twitches. The most annoying and visible is a compulsive is a flapping of my dominant hand in an arc, as if I were shaking up a bottle of Snapple or something. It makes me feel better to do. Can barely control it when it starts. And always a bit afraid it's going to come out "in public."

Always afraid of ANY of this crap coming out in public.

PTSD ROCKS! *rock-and-roll-sign-of-the-devil*

 

[Claire]

My trauma is from a car crash. My seat belt certainly went towards saving my life. An early symptom of PTSD was not wanting to wear my seat belt. The reasoning was so I could get out of the car quicker in an emergency.

Makes perfect sense! :rolleyes:

 

[Dylan]

Oh, my goodness! This is a great thread. Whew, I needed that.

When I first started reading, I felt the familiar clenching - remembering weird, and most embarrassing, symptoms. But then as I read all the posts, with the spin of humor and irony, I started to chuckle....then actually laugh out loud.

Ok, mine is the sort of vertigo-drop type thing that a couple of people mentioned. Then my lips go numb (all the blood going to the large muscles for that lovely "fight or flight" trip), the blood is roaring in my ears (so basically I can barely hear or speak) AND I can't understand English very well OR process information: it's like that Pink Floyd song, "Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying". I know the person is speaking English but it may as well be Swahili. There is absolutely no action going on in my neocortex. Nada. This was continually occurring at work during meetings of some import and now (after, I'm afraid, most concerned have concluded that I'm an utter fool) I take Inderal/propranolol before meetings. The "white noise mind" still can occur, though, even with it.

I also get this sort of time-elongation. Every instance, every word, every moment, seems like an eternity and I get lost in all that space between things (again, happens in meetings). Everyone else is just sitting there, damn it, doing the meeting thing, and I'm lost in the spaces between words. No, I have not been smoking anything when this occurs. :wink: In fact, that's why I never did get into the dope smoking thing: while everyone else was zoning out and feeling good, I spent the whole time trying to hide that I was shivering like a Chihuahua.

Ok, I'll stop...

Blues: I loved your "PTSD Rocks!!"

Thanks to everyone for your saving humor and grace.

-Dylan

 

[Irton Pike]

Did I mention that wearing lycra shorts and cycling to work are bad combination with my aforementioned symptom?


Bit of a deapth charge this one.........

 

[macpayne]

I would say my worst sympton is irritable bowel or the anxiety itself.

 

[dust]

Feeling and behaving like a teenager.... need i say more about awkwardness, embarrassment, emotional conviction... at least I don't have the spots.

 

[Irton Pike]

good point dust! I like that.