Does anybody experience certain moments or days with peaks of anxiety and dysfunction, but afterwards are fine?
Does anybody experience certain moments or days with peaks of anxiety and dysfunction, but afterwards are fine?
I've been diagnosed with ADHD and Autism and I'm pretty familiar with the difficulties and increased anxiety/depression in day-to-day life.
Overall, I'm doing pretty well now. If people talk to me, they would not know I experience any difficulties in life. (Although I'm currently not working). I'm not really that stressed in general, I'm doing much better socially, capable of getting things done everyday, and not feeling terribly tired every day anymore.
But sometimes, seemingly unannounced, I get these bouts of severe discomfort. It feels to me like anxiety, but it's not preceded by any worrying thoughts. (as far as I can tell).
When I feel this, I usually have to lie down or I might start coughing and vomiting. And I will not be able to get myself to do anything anymore. (not even just do something I usually enjoy.)
This can last for an hour, but sometimes it's almost a whole day. Afterwards, I seem to be perfectly fine again.
Is this something that anybody else experiences? Or is there something else going on? Everytime I go to the doctor to explain this, they don't seem to be worried and tell me that it's probably fine.
But fear for having this happen again (And it seems to happen quite frequently), is what is keeping me from making any commitments in terms of my life or work.
I do! I won't cough or vomit, but there will be days when I, completely out of the blue, feel miserable as hell, close to crying, capable of nothing more than lying down. The next day I'll feel fairly fine again. It's kinda hard to pinpoint where these feelings are coming from though for me it feels like it's mostly work related, as in "I don't want to live in this capitalist hellscape" or "Why would I waste 8 hours of precious lifetime each day when I can barely function for more than 2"
Why would I waste 8 hours of precious lifetime each day when I can barely function for more than 2
Oof, that one hit home pretty hard.
Maybe it's similar for me, I don't really feel like I could do the things I like for 8 hours, let alone work for that amount of time. But you would expect a more constant feeling of dread in those cases, not really random moments like this. But perhaps I'm wrong.
How do you deal with it? Have you found anything that helps?
For me, meditation seems to help it a bit with noticing my feelings/body, but I still can't distinguish between a lot of sensations. While other people I know can even tell what specific meal they want based on what 'kind' of hunger they feel.
Maybe treat the symptom of gastro reflux and they may help with the coughing and vomiting. Prilosec is over the counter.
I'm not sure if that's the issue for me. I usually feel better when lying down. But people with gastro reflux often have more issue lying down, no?
I get flu-like symptoms after prolonged exposure to high stress. I'll be pale, weak, achy and slow, for about 24-48 hours. A lot of people do this, I'm just sensitive. I will even feel ill in anticipation of an upcoming obligation or event. I have been improving on preparing for these obligations, and that helps to reduce the symptoms in this case. It seems to help.
Recently I have even started to recognize these feelings of preliminary anxiety around certain words, phrases, smells, or sound patterns. My partner has given me the opportunity to explore and discuss why I would feel so strongly about everyday words and phenomena. (Trauma response) My suggestion is to attempt to listen closely to yourself to "pinpoint" what in your environment is giving you these feelings which prevent you from living. After identifying these troublesome stimuli, it is helpful to address and process them before they can slip back into your mental blind-spots.
Commitments are terrifying if you can't always rely on yourself. I hate wasting other people's time in professional or personal obligations.
Cock-and-ball tortureCognitive Behavioral Therapy from a liscened professional is helpful to work through these issues.