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Hello not-in-need-of-rescuing-whispers.

I happened to have an interesting weekend with many changes in mental state but was consciously monitoring (after the fact) the actual physical changes that accompanied them.

I'm not sure if it will apply but in the aftermath of my own experience I remember doing a similar "experiment" with a friend. While monitoring our conversation I paid attention to the comments that produced pain on some level. Quite frequently, this pain manifested in physical symptoms such as tension, nausea, pounding heartbeat, etc. Investigating further, I found that the "pain" was nearly always related to a self-concept such as, "what if they don't like me if I say...". The entire exercise was very informative, to say the least.

This is the first that I actually noticed the difficulty in getting out words but husband has bought it to my attention that I do this when extremely stressed (which doesn’t take much sometimes) but when trying to look back I guess I do.

I found the same but only if I was in a situation when I felt that the other person perceived me in a negative light (i.e. inferior because of my experience) or when I was trying to express some complicated information (i.e., Jung's model of the psyche and how it pertains to ego fragmentation). However, if I was in a situation where I felt accepted, understood, and not trying to condense a really big concept into a nutshell of a conversation, this same difficulty fell away.

~ Namaste