What's a weird symptom you get with anxiety and depression

[Punky143]

My answer is: I absolutely hate this but (we) DID system are certain bugs are on us. It's the worst feeling, it consumes our life and everything we do and end up not doing. We search the Internet hoping to find a valid reason but we never find one. We've gone to the doctor and nothing was found and you'd assume that answer is good enough but it's far from good. It's having this certainty that everyone is wrong and can't wait for the day to prove everyone wrong but knowing that day will never come. Life right now is especially hard for many reasons and we lack the ability of feeling in control. At times we try things to do to feel better but when it gets as bad as it is right now, we literally don't know what, if anything, would help. It's a very lonely place to be and isn't understood by anyone besides my T. I'm curious what others experience and how it effects your daily life.

 

[arfie]

i start scratching holes in my epidermis. i love bugs, so i am not quite so quick to get the heebeegeebees, but there are times it feels like i am caught in a mosquito swarm or sitting on top of a fire ant pile. i treat it like a psych symptom of many triggers. and work on whatever symptom is plaguing me hardest on each particular go-round.

It's having this certainty that everyone is wrong and can't wait for the day to prove everyone wrong but knowing that day will never come.

this is on the list of symptoms i have worked on to alleviate this quirk. self-loathing and control are two more. when it arises i feel like i am trying to dig the unacceptable pieces out of myself.

 

[Rose White]

Rashes, compulsive skin picking, a kind of acute psychosis where all my thoughts and external sounds have a mocking/sarcastic tone.

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Bathroom avoidance, especially for pooping. That one’s anxiety related but comes up whenever stuff is going tough, affects parts that hold specific trauma (you can possibly guess) the most.

Pain.

Smelling death/decay

 

[user27357]

lack of sleep, and that leads to all kinds of amazingly weird shit.
losing an hour of memory but being able to verify you were active and productive for that hour but absolute blank until you were interrupted/brought back to here and now is pretty weird except i get used to it from time to time.

 

[Punky143]

Bathroom avoidance, especially for pooping. That one’s anxiety related but comes up whenever stuff is going tough, affects parts that hold specific trauma (you can possibly guess) the most.

Pain.

Smelling death/decay

That too happens to us, especially in public.

 

[Punky143]

lack of sleep, and that leads to all kinds of amazingly weird shit.
losing an hour of memory but being able to verify you were active and productive for that hour but absolute blank until you were interrupted/brought back to here and now is pretty weird except i get used to it from time to time.

It's a hard one to come out of and then be expected to have conversations and interactions. We tend to be very irritated too

 

[captain jigglypuff]

Mine is related to my autism. If my anxiety gets really bad, my head feels weird and light headed and I begin to walk a very stilted way and my vision sort of blurs out and sometimes I blackout for a few seconds at a time and during this I feel like my brain is shutting down as a way to protect itself and one tiny trigger will make it snap and physically break me. At that point I suddenly become extremely silent and just stand there staring into the distance and am unable to move for quite some time and barely respond to anything around me. Then I sort go into this weird state of automation and can do a few things but I continue to stare off into space unresponsive and unable to talk. If I get to that point then it’s an extremely bad sign. The last time it happened was around the same time as my 20th high school class reunion and I was at work and needed to deliver trays to one of the units but accidentally mixed up the two carts and sent the wrong one. I was already at the point of my mind shutting down and I had to get the cart and give it to the right unit. The one cook then jokingly said, “Look at what you did,” and that is when my brain snapped. I immediately walked out of the kitchen and stood out in the hall and just began staring at the wall completely silent and unable to move. I just stood there staring at the wall and the other cook grew increasingly concerned about me and kept asking if I was okay but I couldn’t respond because my body had shutdown at that point. When I finally was able to move again I continued to stay completely silent and just stared at the wall as I washed the dishes for the next two hours. I almost had this happen to me on Wednesday and ever since then I haven’t been feeling very well mentally.

 

[SeaLionMan1982]

Bathroom avoidance, especially for pooping. That one’s anxiety related but comes up whenever stuff is going tough, affects parts that hold specific trauma (you can possibly guess) the most.

Pain.

Smelling death/decay

I often try to wait until I get home to use the bathroom even though I'm desperate and that sometimes makes me have accidents :-(