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Old Apr 30, 2018, 08:13 AM
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i don't know if I have "PTSD" exactly, but i have something. I am definitely very "psychosomatic" in that I have pointed (yet shifting) physical symptoms in response to mental/emotional situations.

I definitely get "the chills" as a response to difficult situations. I will be cold and shivering even when the weather is on the warm side. Last November I was wearing a thin down jacket in the Florida sun. This is accompanied by shaking hands and a general loss of energy. Like I will walk slowly down down the street and through town as if gravity has been turned up and and the air density has tripled and made it harder to walk through. If it's a nice day I will lie down and "rest it off" in the sun (which works somewhat) and I will take a lot of hot baths, no matter the weather.

For example (just one example) this could be triggered by my girlfriend (who's got an anxiety thing going on herself) "losing it" and yelling at me, berating me in front of our 7 you, etc. She will get over this top of thing very quickly and oven apologize for "flying off the handle", but I might be thrown into fugue for a much longer time, and the shivering/chills are definitely part of it.

I think it would be very if useful typical human bodily responses, such as this one, were mapped out. Because just knowing and understanding what is going on is often a great help in overcoming (as the late great Dr. Sarnow showed — his books are about "back pain" but really it applies to all kinds of psychosomatic phenomenon).

Last edited by bluekoi; Apr 30, 2018 at 07:59 PM. Reason: Amend title