Does change to your routine or environment make you sick?

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Does anyone else get this? Feeling nauseous, depressed, that general sinking feeling/dread and anxiety when their routine is changed or their environment is changed?

I can't find a stable routine, I always end up doing things that randomly pop up in my mind and yes, I hate change of environment.

I've noticed that when I feel bad about routines, it's usually because I want to avoid certain responsibilities.

Not a lot. I don't quite know what's going on in me with routine. Looking at my daily habits, it's clear that I do many things in a very routine way, but I don't consciously notice any particular comfort in those routines, or any particular discomfort if I'm breaking new ground, in fact I often get bored silly watching my life re-hash itself, and I often long for change, but at the same time I can feel very threatened if change is imposed on me.

Stress in general makes me sick, so yes, a change in routine will absolutely do it. I seem to have a trigger where emotional stress gets instantly converted to stomach pain, nausea, and dizziness - and as a child, that was what I complained of constantly, with honestly no awareness of how I was feeling emotionally.

It doesn't make me sick like that. But it does shoot up my anxiety and makes me extremely anxious and irritable for the day.

I don't have quite a rigorous routine as some, but I do find that if I can't control my environment how I choose I get really irritated, stressed, depressed etc much like ToughDiamond has mentioned. I have a routine that I'm not completely conscious of because I can control how my environment is to suit my needs. When I'm forced to change it, (Not how I want but because of someone else) the stress and anxiety, and irritability shoots up.

Yes like nausea. That's why I do a lot of rocking in those situations, because it helps ease that feeling.

It can make me feel very anxious to have my plans or environment changed without some kind of notice. I like things to be planned ahead. When plans are suddenly changed, I experience a lot of anxiety.

I don't really have much of a routine, but I am often at home, so I am comfortable. Leaving my house and going to a new place can be very difficult for me. I am okay with going to places that I am familiar with.

Being in a different environment can make me feel ill, usually because things smell differently, and because I may not be able to get comfortable, and have the foods that I am used to eating. But it really depends on the place, and how long that I have to be there.

Odd one out - I hate routine, love change. I even pull against things that I need in order to feel comfortable wherever I go, the "leashes" I call them. I do do certain things on certain days but that's because it's convenient and I can fit everything in - I don't care if those things get disrupted because something else comes up. I don't like to be predictable. I do however need privacy and quiet, so I can withdraw when I need to. If I don't have that then things can go downhill quickly and severely.

I don't really get the nausea, but I get stomach cramps, headaches, depression, and anxiety.

Here's the weird thing though: if the change is my decision, I have a different reaction. I will still have the anxiety before the change, but I'm sometimes excited and happy during the change. For example: if I'm traveling to somewhere I want to go, starting something new like when I went to college, or when I moved to California. It was scary, but a good feeling too.

I still have panic attacks or meltdowns during big transitions if things don't go according to my extremely detailed plans. My car broke down three times during the move to California, and an earthquake woke me up the first morning there. I think I had several meltdowns on that trip.

I don't get physically ill, but it does make me very anxious and upset, and can trigger meltdowns if the change is big enough or sudden enough. Even small changes like my dad rearranging the furniture in his living room bother me. Last semester I had a mini meltdown in front of the leaders of my social skills group because they told me on the second-to-last day of group that one of them was leaving, and I panicked and started yelling, pacing and hitting myself. It makes me angry when I express discomfort or say I don't like some change someone is implementing, and my family just tell me to "get over it" or "it'll be fine" or "it's no big deal". Just because it's no big deal to them, doesn't mean it is to me.

Yes. Me and Waldo both - physically ill. I know Waldo's Aspie, but I don't know what my problem is.