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liveandletdie
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22 Oct 2010, 3:28 am

I feel like in an effort to act normal and in response to overload...

The past 10+ years I have become so rigid that i don't move, respond, just condense everything into one solid stance.


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22 Oct 2010, 3:30 am

I very nearly get that way on job interviews. 8O


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22 Oct 2010, 6:38 am

Not all the time, but it does happen to me.



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23 Oct 2010, 6:26 am

yeah, sometimes

then i realise afterwards how awkward i must have appeared



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23 Oct 2010, 7:31 am

I used to call that state "mind freeze". Yes, it still happens. Thankfully, not too often.



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23 Oct 2010, 8:07 am

Happens to me all the time.



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23 Oct 2010, 11:49 am

This happens to me ALL the time, and I'm in high school. It happens mostly during school.



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23 Oct 2010, 1:52 pm

It can happen to me - it takes a sudden unforeseen high-emotion shock.

Compare the mouse maze experiment where the beastie realizes it will gt a shock [and no food] WHICHEVER way it goes, and, I am told, just hunkers down quivering.

That is cruelty to animals; we have no rights in this area.



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23 Oct 2010, 2:30 pm

i get it a lot when i am not comfortable and am aware of my own body too much.

I guess it could potentially be classed as a catatonic stupor. Maybe that would be far worse. i dunno.



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23 Oct 2010, 6:56 pm

Yes. I have this. When I'm very nervous I can barely talk and go very very still.

Also, I used to fidget and move about with both nerves or excitement but I tried to train myself out of this so as to appear more normal. So I practiced being very very still. In the end I found this extreme stillness almost as comforting as it's opposite, so I now I have both extremes - I tend to fidget and move around a lot in private and compulsively go very very still around people I don't know. Being very still is socially more accepted than being all jittery. But regardless of this trained habit, I have always gone very still and quiet - silent and statue like - when very stressed or nervous.