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06 Oct 2007, 6:11 am

I suppose its like having a microscope on your internal feelings and bodily workings. So anxiety feels overwhelming, a low mood absorbs you in, chest pains become a heart attack. Its like exaggerated thinking. Does anyone else get this, this pair of eyes looking inward not outward?



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06 Oct 2007, 6:17 am

All the time. I've got hyper-sensitive senses and I tend to get overwhelmed easily in everyday life, but i'm strangely calm in a real crisis.


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06 Oct 2007, 6:34 am

Same as autodidact and you, fresco.

Everything within this vessel is magnified; I don't feel much externally (cuts and burns for example).



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06 Oct 2007, 7:42 am

fresco wrote:
I suppose its like having a microscope on your internal feelings and bodily workings. So anxiety feels overwhelming, a low mood absorbs you in, chest pains become a heart attack. Its like exaggerated thinking. Does anyone else get this, this pair of eyes looking inward not outward?


I feel like this now...
Externally I can pour hot candle wax onto my arm and not feel the heat (literally)
But inside I am over whelmed with anxiety and my heart is beating so fast and loud that I can hear and feel it.


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06 Oct 2007, 11:45 am

autodidact wrote:
All the time. I've got hyper-sensitive senses and I tend to get overwhelmed easily in everyday life, but i'm strangely calm in a real crisis.


me too!
i think i am excellent to have around in a natural disaster or any other as-seen-on-tv event!


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06 Oct 2007, 1:14 pm

autodidact wrote:
All the time. I've got hyper-sensitive senses and I tend to get overwhelmed easily in everyday life, but i'm strangely calm in a real crisis.


same.