Physical pain related to emotions?
I get this. It scares me sometimes. I usually get it if I've experienced/am experiencing really strong anger or sadness or fear. Sometimes if I've had really bad nightmares I wake up feeling this way.
I've found that when I talk about stuff from my past which I've kept to myself and not spoken to people about, this causes pain all over my body. My psych says because I've bottled up the emotions for so long, they have to find a way to come out of my body, and they come out in the form of pain.
He's given me breathing exercises to do, they help a bit. Playing sport definitely helps me a lot.
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I get this. It scares me sometimes. I usually get it if I've experienced/am experiencing really strong anger or sadness or fear. Sometimes if I've had really bad nightmares I wake up feeling this way.
I've found that when I talk about stuff from my past which I've kept to myself and not spoken to people about, this causes pain all over my body. My psych says because I've bottled up the emotions for so long, they have to find a way to come out of my body, and they come out in the form of pain.
He's given me breathing exercises to do, they help a bit. Playing sport definitely helps me a lot.
Sports are no good for me......then I would be hurting constantly, I'm pretty much underweight, 4' 11 and I smoke and have always seemed to have less energy for physical activity than most people but I do like to walk as that provides some exercise but does not exhaust me. The breathing stuff can certainly help when it happens...but I wish I could avoid it happening altogether.
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Walking's good.
I wish I could avoid it happening altogether, too. I just don't know how to stop it! Sorry, not very helpful.
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Walking's good.
I wish I could avoid it happening altogether, too. I just don't know how to stop it! Sorry, not very helpful.
That is alright, i don't expect that everyone else who experiences it has all the answers.
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Yeah I feel pain from emotions when I try to hold in a meltdown. It's similar to a panic attack but without the panic. When I get lost I have panic attacks and I can't breathe and feel like my heart will stop. With this it's a stinging chest pain. The whole chest is involved, not just the heart. My arms might feel stiff and sore too and I get pain in my head.
I think it has something to do with being hypersensitive to others emotions. I hardly have control over my own strong emotions and other people's feel so unbearable at times. Usually I get angry if I can't react properly or I just stop, like I did with my friends who were drunk and just kept teasing me. I went into shutdown before I could feel any pain though. At those times I feel no pain, no emotions.
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Sorry, I misunderstood before.
Yes I get physical pain if someone I love says or does hurtful things.
I guess its an anxiety thing, my throat hurts and my chest is tight and my heart can feel like its literally going to squeeze empty and stop working. I also get a total fatigue of my limbs as if I've just run a marathon, and I get wringing stomach pains too.
Crushing is a good way to describe it.
If the person isn't a person I love then I will already be emotionally distant and it does not to affect me what they say or do.
I also get stinging/burning sensations on the skin of my arms if I am stressed.
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Sorry, I misunderstood before.
Yes I get physical pain if someone I love says or does hurtful things.
I guess its an anxiety thing, my throat hurts and my chest is tight and my heart can feel like its literally going to squeeze empty and stop working. I also get a total fatigue of my limbs as if I've just run a marathon, and I get wringing stomach pains too.
Crushing is a good way to describe it.
If the person isn't a person I love then I will already be emotionally distant and it does not to affect me what they say or do.
I also get stinging/burning sensations on the skin of my arms if I am stressed.
For me it does not matter who the person is, I get the same feeling.......that is why it was so easy for the kids at school to bully me when I was younger because they could just say things to cause me obvious pain and discomfort and eventually became aware that sometimes if they picked on me more while I was experiencing that they might even cause me to lose control and break a rule and then go tell the teacher...of course if I were to dare tell on them I would have been ridiculed for being a tattle tale or whatever.
I mean now I have a little better control but not as much so people could still take advantage of it which I am still afraid of, even though I have not had incidents like that for a very long time and I get paranoid about it so sometimes if I misunderstand peoples intentions I might assume they are trying to get at me.
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I think it has something to do with being hypersensitive to others emotions. I hardly have control over my own strong emotions and other people's feel so unbearable at times. Usually I get angry if I can't react properly or I just stop, like I did with my friends who were drunk and just kept teasing me. I went into shutdown before I could feel any pain though. At those times I feel no pain, no emotions.
Yeah its like people can project their anger or whatever on me and it actually causes me physical pain...another side of it is though is I can kind of sense things about people. Like when I was a kid I could tell if my parents had been fighting simply by walking into the house after school and feeling the tension/anger that was present.
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I am hypersensitive to how others are feeling and to atmospheres. This causes me immense stress and the indirect pain on my skin as a result as well as the usual tight chest etc.
I have also had itchy swelling in my hands and swollen feet from stress, odd, but there it is.
I was lucky, bullies outside my family didn't bother with me because I withdrew totally and gave them no satisfaction so they moved on. It wasn't a deliberate tactic, just lucky that I reacted that way & bored them.
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I have also had itchy swelling in my hands and swollen feet from stress, odd, but there it is.
I was lucky, bullies outside my family didn't bother with me because I withdrew totally and gave them no satisfaction so they moved on. It wasn't a deliberate tactic, just lucky that I reacted that way & bored them.
Good for you, i wish I knew how to do that....maybe you have a higher pain tolerance?
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Its a totally different reaction, so not about pain threshold. I withdraw instead of feeling it.
I read if a situation is too difficult then imagine yourself looking down on it from the ceiling, like you are watching it on TV.
This is similar to the thing which happens to me, but you may be able to train yourself to do it for certain situations.
when i was told at the vet's office my cat was going to die my stomach hurt with a stabbing pain and i had nausea, and doubled over, put my hand on my stomach and almost threw up right there.
sometimes i have chest pains when upset, or might get dizzy.
sometimes i just shut down and feel nothing. sometimes i alternate.
i think we're much more emotional than the NTs and maybe that's why this happens.
you could try something like that: think about something that bothered you and deliberately build up that feeling of pain, try to feel the pain as hard as you can, then let go. it will teach you how to control it. do it when you're home in a safe surrounding. just a thought.
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I read if a situation is too difficult then imagine yourself looking down on it from the ceiling, like you are watching it on TV.
This is similar to the thing which happens to me, but you may be able to train yourself to do it for certain situations.
Well I am not sure how to make my brain react that way, I mean its such an instant reaction I don't even know how i would change it to anything else as it happens before I am even aware it is happening.
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