[Odee]

I don't think that I've ever truly understood the phrase "feeling like you could jump out of your skin." I always get this mental image of a person literally shedding their skin in one giant leap and becoming...well, skinless. However, it is a phrase that I have picked up and like to use to describe a certain way that I feel where I feel so antsy my skin feels weird and confining. I think it's useful for a lot of us to summarize that anxious feeling.

Has anyone ever thought that they were ready to jump out of their own skin without ever having encountered the phrase in the first place?

And what does jumping out of your own skin feel like to you?

[eskielover]

For me, it's when my anxiety is so bad......I just want to do nothing but escape where I am.....& that's in the skin of the person who has do deal with the things that are causing the horrible anxiety......just want something to be over with......& I don't want to be the one living through it.....drives the anxiety so high, if feels like the top will blow off my head & I will just come out like a volcano.

[Moose72]

I had akathesia and needed to get out if my own body. Bit different. I wanted run away- fast and far.

[faerie_moon_x]

For me I feel like my skin is on too tight and my bones are "shivering" inside. My heart feels like it's racing (but it isn't.) I feel like my skin is wrong and I litterally can start clawing at myself, pulling my hair. Like I want to get out of my own body. So yeah, "jump out of my skin" is pretty litteral for me.

[twiddle]

For me it's always meant a spooky feeling. Like someone is sneaking up behind you but you turn and nobody is there.

I dunno it's kinda hard to describe.

[BipolaRNurse]

For me, it's an itchy/creepy/uncomfortable/restless/jumpy/squirmy sensation, as if I had ants crawling around under my skin. I HATE that---all I want to do is claw at my skin and change positions every 3 seconds.

[Bipolar mom]

Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse

For me, it's an itchy/creepy/uncomfortable/restless/jumpy/squirmy sensation, as if I had ants crawling around under my skin. I HATE that---all I want to do is claw at my skin and change positions every 3 seconds.

This! And also racing heart, restlessness, racing thoughts.

[Trippin2.0]

Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse

For me, it's an itchy/creepy/uncomfortable/restless/jumpy/squirmy sensation, as if I had ants crawling around under my skin. I HATE that---all I want to do is claw at my skin and change positions every 3 seconds.

That's me right there! And l have clawed at my skin and ripped out hair to get rid of it. I've learned that scalding hot water and scrubbing my skin numb helps the best! For me anyway.

Originally Posted by Odee

I don't think that I've ever truly understood the phrase "feeling like you could jump out of your skin." I always get this mental image of a person literally shedding their skin in one giant leap and becoming...well, skinless. However, it is a phrase that I have picked up and like to use to describe a certain way that I feel where I feel so antsy my skin feels weird and confining. I think it's useful for a lot of us to summarize that anxious feeling.

Has anyone ever thought that they were ready to jump out of their own skin without ever having encountered the phrase in the first place?

And what does jumping out of your own skin feel like to you?

..abandon ship!

...I've jumped out of my own skin lotsa' times ...but it's real elastic stuff!
suddenly I'm back inside