Hello dear community,

since I moved out of my parents household, some day I started having shocks throughout my body that were triggered by very mundane, unimportant thoughts. It feels like when you get scared or you suddenly remember you left the stove on and is shorter than a second. Only you jump because you think of something simple.
Back then, I had them several times a day. They didn't overly bother me, and some time they stopped.

Over three years these "shocks" came back for certain periods, and the periods of not having them inbetween these periods became shorter. I reckon these are adrenaline surges, because I can feel it burning very clearly in the region above my stomach when I am triggered.
They started to bother me a lot, and they even started to stress me, which caused a fixation on these shocks and led to nervousness and restlessness. In the last few months I feel these shocks not only in the area above my stomach, but now in the right side of my brain too. It feels like tension for less than a second every time. And the more I had them, the more likely I am to end up with headache and a bad mood.

Lately I've been having them really everyday and I can't even count how many a day. When I think of physically going to university, I jump, when I think of making dinner, I jump, even when thinking about typing I jump right now. I wouldn't really call it a panic attack, because neither my heart rate nor my breathing increases. It's always just very very quick.

I know that this is purely mentally, because once I am REALLY relaxed (which is hard to do), once I don't think about it, or when I am asleep, I am not experiencing these shocks. I have been to the doctor to check my physical health and I am physically healthy.

I have an appointment with a psychiatrist hoping they can tell me whats wrong with me. My only concern is, will it affect my physical health in the long term? Is there someone who has experienced something like that? Is it adrenaline that is making my right brain-side hurt? It is muscle-tension? And can it damage something?

Thank you in advance for any help