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Old Apr 18, 2013, 10:24 PM
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Hi everyone. Recently I have felt depressed and i have noticed numbness in my fingers/hands, but without pain. It is almost like I am grossed out that I am depressed and this is my reaction. I can't really explain it. Like you know how someone may see or hear something disgusting/traumatizing and feel weak/numb? i feel the same about my depression. I also think I might be colder than usual because when I am with a friend i say it is cold, and she usually says that it is not that cold. I just feel empty, even in a crowded room with many people. I am also sensitive to things that have never bothered me before. For example, I am a 19 year old college student and I live in a dorm. Tonight I wouldn't go into the shower unless the girl who was in the bathroom left because she was humming. I never really cared that much about other people humming before. Have these things happened to u? Can you please explain? Thanks.
I was a 19 year old college student once, and I will say, those first couple of years were some of the toughest years, emotionally, in my life.
Are you really colder than the usual, or was your friends' statement, in a way, a little less than supportive, meaning, she didn't ask if you were alright, instead insisted, it's not cold, it's you?
Maybe the cold that you feel is symbolic of how you are feeling towards those you are surrounded by? Just a thought, from this side of having once been a freshman. After all, things that you weren't sensitive to, you are now becoming sensitive too, i.e., humming.

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