Handling stress.

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Torak........Im not sure if this is the same thing you are describing ....but I have a feeling(more so when I was in school.walking down hallway,reading allowed in front of people,driving in an area that I dont know well,in a job interview)when I get a buzzing in my head and feel like I am "out of my body...cant think,cant move"....I believe this is either panic attack or dissociation...at least those are the closes things I have found to describe my sensations....It has been happening as long as I can remember(when I was younger or if I think I am in trouble with an "authority figure"I also get the butterfies in the stomach and nausia)....lots of fun....and people wonder why I avoid stressful situations.

Dissociation... that's it! You have found the word!

Out of body, Mr Spock but with the Mr Spock as ice over molten lava waiting to shift. A robot you is moving you about and talking with your brain cold but with a bomb waiting to go off. It it hard to find a cogent metaphor.

Dissociation. Thank you, you have found the word.

It's a rather unpleasant experience as it feels similar to the few seconds just before I have a partial epileptic seizure.

Just imagine that feeling but with a rapidly increasingly detatchment from reality, with sounds in the left ear, familiar, deja vu, a feeling like the static from rubbing a tv screen all over the left side of inside your skull, people talk and it suddenly becomes a totally foreign language. 20 seconds or so. Then 5 seconds or so deterioration to normal, nausea and (a few hours later) vomiting.

Migrane and exhaustion.

You have just helped me describe a simple partial seizure. I've never been able to do that before.

It's like dissociation but more of a sudden punch in the face out of the blue with no cause and bad side effects (mentioned above), whereas the dissociation has causes.

Damn damn, you hit the nail on the head! First time I have ever been able to describe a partial temporal lobe seizure with a degree of confidence and accuracy! Thank you!

Wow, I can imagine that, always wondered what a seizure was like. Although I probably won't ever understand it completely, not having experienced it.

I usually don't do anything when I'm stressed, which is probably a bad thing because I feel myself boiling up slowly inside. Today for instance I felt really on the edge of a panic attack because of this physics project, and I almost exploded when some kid on the subway wouldn't stop tapping his foot loudly (ok, normal volume, but it completely threw my thoughts off course. Please tap silently!).

Uhm...your welcome,glad to help... ....I use to try and explain it to my psyc. and it was a bit confussing the way I imagined it.....I felt like a "spider" looking out the "eye holes" of this robot that was carrying me place to place...it felt very weird....At least he never said I was "psychotic" which is how the description sounds...lol

I find the source of the stress and I break his legs.

Actually, it depends on my mood. If I am feeling strong and focused, I will confront it head on. If I am irritated and just want to be left alone, I will ignore the problem.

I think that's pretty inciteful. I agree with you. I find that I'm more inclined to do constructive things to handle stress when I'm feeling strong and confident. I know that if I maintain a healthy lifestyle that involves doing things that help me to stay positive and confident, then I'm much better at handling stressful situations. I need to feel sufficiently motivated to do these things though. I've just come back from a yoga class. That's one good thing, and I feel better for doing it. It would have been so easy to have not gone. I've certainly found using positive affirmations helpful. You really can fool the brain into a more positive state by repeating sentences like, "I am happy and confident." It's best not to do this in front of strangers, as they might think you're mad.

The difficulty that I suspect we all face on a daily basis, is how to keep positive and confident when so much in life is inherently stressful. That's a challenge that lasts a lifetime.