I dont think they come from nowhere. There are too many books out with the title "The Body Remembers"! And i have experienced it myself.

I think you had a "nature vs nurture" debate going on in your other thread. Do you like peanut butter sandwiches because its in your nature, or because thats what you were fed growing up? Right? Who knows? What if they were forced on you, or that was all that was offered to you?

I had many of the same feelings you described. I found them puzzling. But in my last ten (out of almost forty) years of therapy, i figured out, these were feelings foisted upon me by my various abusers, and also were a result of their mishandling of various situations which were more or less innocent (some more, some less!), but they couldnt handle ANY of them. As a girl, i think my parents just held their breath and hoped i didnt get pregnant. For like 25 years. Wtf.