[nikon]

I am sometimes getting really weird physical feelings, which have happened before to a certain extent, but feel really uncomfortable. i tried to explain them to my therapist but wasn't very successful, and don't like to try to explain them because i think i sound really stupid.

one feeling is when i'm driving - it's usually when i've driven for a little while already - it feels like my hands have swapped. it's like my brain has lost contact with my hands and it feels like my hands are on the wrong way. like they're actually attached to my arms upside down, suddenly. it's uncomfortable but i just ignore it and carry on driving, trying to concentrate on something else.

the other feelings i usually get when i'm meditating. when my hands are touching, after a little while it almost feels like they lose all feeling, but not in a numb/pins and needles way. it's like they blur and where they touch, i can't feel anything; i can't feel that i've got two hands. it's hard to explain, but it just feels like they've merged together, and to regain the feeling that i've actually got two hands, i have to move them apart.

another one was having my hands start to feel incredibly heavy in my lap, as though they were lead or something. it felt so real that i had to stop meditating, because it was really uncomfortable.

does anyone relate? when i was younger i had night terrors with things feeling too big and too small and stuff like that, which is kind of how the heavy hands feel.

How would you describe your mood? There is a clinical form of Depression, the diagnostics of which include the symptoms of the sensation of a 'heaviness' in the limbs. There are far more symptoms too, but 'heavy' hands and feet are one of the hallmarks.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by nikon

I am sometimes getting really weird physical feelings, which have happened before to a certain extent, but feel really uncomfortable. i tried to explain them to my therapist but wasn't very successful, and don't like to try to explain them because i think i sound really stupid.

one feeling is when i'm driving - it's usually when i've driven for a little while already - it feels like my hands have swapped. it's like my brain has lost contact with my hands and it feels like my hands are on the wrong way. like they're actually attached to my arms upside down, suddenly. it's uncomfortable but i just ignore it and carry on driving, trying to concentrate on something else.

the other feelings i usually get when i'm meditating. when my hands are touching, after a little while it almost feels like they lose all feeling, but not in a numb/pins and needles way. it's like they blur and where they touch, i can't feel anything; i can't feel that i've got two hands. it's hard to explain, but it just feels like they've merged together, and to regain the feeling that i've actually got two hands, i have to move them apart.

another one was having my hands start to feel incredibly heavy in my lap, as though they were lead or something. it felt so real that i had to stop meditating, because it was really uncomfortable.

does anyone relate? when i was younger i had night terrors with things feeling too big and too small and stuff like that, which is kind of how the heavy hands feel.

I get this all the time with my physical problem called MS (multiple Sclerosis). my treatment providers call it muscle fatigue combined with psychosis (having delusional beliefs, thoughts and feelings that cant possibly be real) the reason they call it this in me is because hands dont just suddenly gain weight while doing a physical activity. its just that I have held my hands and arms in one position so long that the muscles get tired so the nerves send their messages to my brain telling me that my hands and arms are tired (heavy) just like if a normal person holds a 5 pound weight up in the air sooner or later their hand and arm are going to feel heavy/ tired. the psychosis is my feeling like or thinking or believing my hands and arms are put on my body wrong. obviously my hands and arms cant just jump across and reattach on opposing sides then they really are. and in reality my hands and arms are attached normally. so its just my mind creating an ...optical illusion/ sensory hallucination and belief/ thoughts in something that is not actually real.

to find out what this is in you, you will need to contact your treatment providers and try again to explain it to them. they are the only ones that can tell you what this is in you.

[nikon]

justafriend - i don't know if this feeling has anything to do with that kind of heaviness, which i've also experienced. when i feel extremely depressed, my arms and legs do feel heavy, and like it's an effort to lift them, but with my hands this feeling - it literally feels like they were turned to lead. like i had to open my eyes and move them to get rid of the feeling that they were too heavy on my lap. it's not the same as the heavy lethargy i feel in the deep depression

The heaviness I speak of is not one of lethargy it is the sensation one's limbs are literally heavy and an effort to lift/move.