Has your mental misery manifested in physical form?

[Username1359751]

Has your mental anguish caused you to feel it physically? If so, what kinds of symptoms? Have you been able to rectify this or control it? Burp.

Edit::: All of these symptoms listed, I can relate to... minus the white hair. Although I've always had this teeny patch of like 5 hairs that have been white since I can remember. (In first grade, a girl was playing with my hair during storytime, and she started giggling and showing everyone my white hairs like "Omg...!" Yeah, that caused a disturbance to storytime...) There's also a lot of symptoms that aren't listed that I have as well.
Hooray for pains of all kind!

 

[Praestat_Mori]

The MH issues (depressive episodes and suicidal ideation) that are caused by external circumstances in my case didn't manifest in physical form. Physically I'm healthy as I ever was.

I have no doubts that if I still was so much stressed, and depressed that this would certainly have long-term effects on all health levels.

 

[dreamcatcher90]

telogen effluvium, back pains.. fatigue, weight gain, panic attacks..

 

[davidtorez]

I'm the opposite way
My physical problems have added depression anxiety and constant suicidal thoughts

 

[LittleMoose]

I've been more depressed than I ever have been, which led me to this site. But the physical symptoms I've been experiencing as of late are nausea, stomach pains, headaches, and fatigue.

 

[N33dT0D13]

The heartache (loneliness jealousy insecurity etc.) causes like a physical heaviness in my chest similar to dread or panic, it's a main reason why I wanna die.

 

[GuessWhosBack]

Has your mental anguish caused you to feel it physically?

Yes, I have constant shallow breathing, my sleep is all kinds of fucked up, my muscles contract subconsciously.

Burp

Amen

 

[Username1359751]

Amen

Lol, do you mean "Excuse you."?

 

[GuessWhosBack]

Lol, do you mean "Excuse you."?

No, Amen is funnier where I come from. I can't really explain it, I guess it's a cultural thing.

 

[cowboypants]

Has your mental anguish caused you to feel it physically? If so, what kinds of symptoms? Have you been able to rectify this or control it? Burp.

Not doing well in studies and in result getting punished for that from teachers and parents. I think I felt that physically

 

[Username1359751]

No, Amen is funnier where I come from. I can't really explain it, I guess it's a cultural thing.

I figured, but just thought I'd check. Yeah, those god damn cultural differences lol... smh.

Not doing well in studies and in result getting punished for that from teachers and parents. I think I felt that physically

Felt my burp or the punishment from teachers and parents (via a spanking from a wooden ruler)?

 

[SoulWhisperer]

They characterize my life so yeah. I struggle to do many things due to my anxiety and social anxiety that often manifest in forms of stomach knots and nausea. A few times my depression was so bad I couldn't move and felt my body heavy to the point of just feeling frozen in place.

 

[msesis]

White hair, acne, and losing a ton of weight

 

[Manfrotto99]

Yes stress has caused my immune system to attack itself and I have to take a nasty drug or my hair falls out and I get nasty skin rashes. Panic attacks and fatique I've had for many years.

 

[Lookingtoflyfree]

C-PTSD from abuse and high levels of cortisol ruining my life. I was stable for a bit - even with autism - and abuse has left both nightmares, flashbacks and physical exhaustion. I see death as a sad thing to happen but a release from a body and brain under attack for years. I'm tired. I've tried, but I'm broken now.

 

[fleetingnight]

My first thought was my appearance/body, it's really fucked up from self harm. But, as for feelings, I'm always fatigued, I get bad anxiety nausea, and I have body aches from tensing up when I'm nervous (which is usually, lol)

I'm supposed to stretch/exercise for muscle pain and fatigue. But it's tiring, and sometimes makes them worse, and tbf, I just can't be assed to try a lot of the time, so I smoke weed instead, lol

 

[Yavannah]

im underweight, suffering from weakness, bad digestion, damaged skin barrier, and when im crashing my joints get inflammed and hurt like hell.

 

[whiteboyswithars]

My head always hurts and I can't make it stop

 

[Username1359751]

My first thought was my appearance/body, it's really fucked up from self harm. But, as for feelings, I'm always fatigued, I get bad anxiety nausea, and I have body aches from tensing up when I'm nervous (which is usually, lol)

I'm supposed to stretch/exercise for muscle pain and fatigue. But it's tiring, and sometimes makes them worse, and tbf, I just can't be assed to try a lot of the time, so I smoke weed instead, lol

I used to stretch when I was in a better place, and had Netflix lol... I remember stretching like a motherfucker just while watching the Dahmer series. From the crap I was sleeping on, and considering I'm never ever fully relaxed, it felt good... That's sad that that was an achievement, but it was.

SH marks count; if you weren't in (psychological) pain you wouldn't do it.

 

[losingsteam3141]

I am in an extremely stressful situation at grad school and I get frequent panic attacks. Symptoms include insomnia, palpitations, chest tightness, dry mouth, loss of appetite, and stomach issues. Dealing with the mental and physical burdens in such an intensive program is killing me. Anyone have recommendations for anti anxiety meds? Dont think I can survive the semester much less the year without something.

 

[_AllCatsAreGrey_]

Common physical symptoms of depression for me are 1) shallow breath. I often feel like I have to consciously breathe or else I won't. And 2) I often have a hallow feeling in my chest. It kind of hurts and pulls my shoulders in, producing bad posture.

 

[heavyeyes]

Insomnia, weakness/fatigue, weight loss, chest/heart pain, body aches and pains, tremors, stomach problems, hair loss, acne

 

[coolgal82]

Ngl the main non mental effect i can think of is sometimes i get like so sad/jealous/angry/etc that it makes me feel physically sick

like when my friend was interacting with a person in another discord server and my brain decided that that person was trying to replace me and steal my friend from me and i got so angry and jealous that i was sick for basically the whole day.

there was also a period where my friends were doing a meetup thing and i wasnt there and i felt like throwing up for basically the entire week or so.

also tbh affecting my sleep too somewhat because usually when im in bed my brain is too busy thinking negative thoughts for me to be able to get to sleep but that could also be linked to adhd (whenever i drink i always get to sleep easier. tbf i guess thats also a physical symptom because my drinking is directly caused by my issues and is probably also damaging my liver.)

 

[willitpass]

I have a laundry list of physical problems mostly related to my mental health but a lot of that is due to self harm. From stress alone the only things I can think are IBS, sleep problems, and acne. The fatigue, weakness, dizziness, muscle and joint pain, nausea and vomiting, anemia, electrolyte imbalances, orthostatic hypotension, etc etc are all a direct result of all my different types of self harm.

 

[Tenebrion]

I'm sure a neurologist would disagree that the two are linked but I've developed a mild form of epilepsy recently. Apparently I collapsed in the street with a seizure and a passer-by called an ambulance. The first I remember of it was talking to the medics in that back of the ambulance. I had another at home a couple of weeks later and when I came to I had blood all over my face where I had badly bitten my tongue. I'm on anti-seizure meds now.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I get panic attacks as well as a pain in my chest but, aside from that, my pain is all mental and it hurts a lot

 

[themonkeymaan]

Has your mental anguish caused you to feel it physically? If so, what kinds of symptoms? Have you been able to rectify this or control it? Burp.

Edit::: All of these symptoms listed, I can relate to... minus the white hair. Although I've always had this teeny patch of like 5 hairs that have been white since I can remember. (In first grade, a girl was playing with my hair during storytime, and she started giggling and showing everyone my white hairs like "Omg...!" Yeah, that caused a disturbance to storytime...) There's also a lot of symptoms that aren't listed that I have as well.
Hooray for pains of all kind!

I have constant fatigue and body pain, I've developed COPD from smoking like a trucker , my L4-L5. Spinal bulge is now way worse I can't sleep most nights
In conclusion,
Yes your mental health has an effect on your physical health especially with the risk taking most of us do I can't speak for others here but anecdotally most people I've met who shared their lives with me were the same kind of risk taker as me ( forgive me English isn't my first language)

 

[s54321]

I'm sure a neurologist would disagree that the two are linked but I've developed a mild form of epilepsy recently. Apparently I collapsed in the street with a seizure and a passer-by called an ambulance. The first I remember of it was talking to the medics in that back of the ambulance. I had another at home a couple of weeks later and when I came to I had blood all over my face where I had badly bitten my tongue. I'm on anti-seizure meds now.

doc told me that a seizure could be your own body trying to do something similar to an Electroconvulsive therapy against depression. I started getting them about 10 yrs after first suicide toughts aswell

 

[NoPoint2Life]

But how many of you are also on medication? They have a lot of side effects and I find it hard to decipher which is which.

 

[sancta-simplicitas]

*hrm hrm*

Chronic fatigue, vertigo, chronic pain and stiffness from three decades of muscle tension (a few months ago my ribcage locked up which forced me to hyperventilate 24/7, was fun), neuropathic pain, weight loss, low blood pressure, tachycardia, bradychardia, nausea, heartburn, gastritis, slight humpback from walking around in a crouched position as a child, chest pains, loss of limb function, rashes, dry skin, thousand yard-stare, eczema, loss of appetite, low bloodsugar, vitamin and mineral deficiences, migraines, scars, damaged cognitive functions, tinnitus, visual snow, used to have hair loss but not anymore, loss of vision on a couple of occasions, infections, premature ventricular contractions.

I think that was all.