Same symptoms?
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Ethans Mommy!
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I can't seem to shake this feeling of walking around in a daze and just weird thoughts. I am so sleepy much of the time and it is so hard to wake up in the morning. I am scared that my body will snap into some kind of coma or something. One night I had this thing happen where I felt trapped inside myself and was telling myself to move and I literally couldn't but I obviously did end up moving later. It was right after I had layed down to sleep and so I am not sure if it was like something to do with my concious and sub concious mind with sleeping or what but my dad said that everyone has had this type of thing happen one time or another. Ever since that happened I think about it though not constantly thankfully. Also all the time when I look at the clock it is exactly 9:11 either am or pm and I think I have posted about this before but it scares me! I don't think simple, so of coarse my mind takes off and I turn it into something bad going to happen and I am going to have to call 911! My arms and legs keep going cold and kinda numb and I have no idea why this is happening. I feel like a weirdo! I tryed explaining my symptoms to my sister the other night and she said "maybe its time you get on some mediations, you have had anxiety for a long time now." I have come so far though! I refuse to take any medication. I am not going into a full panic or having the anxiety attack but I am feeling the symptoms all the time. I am beginning to question whether this is anxiety or something wrong with me. Any advise would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all so much!
Hi Ethans mom, I sure recognize your symptoms having battled through severe depression and anxiety myself. When I was laying around most if not all of the time my body started to go numb and cold. I started walking on my treadmill and getting out when it was nice and guess what. The numbness and coldness and tingles all left. As long as I exercise I dont have these symptoms. It is hard to get up and do it when feeling so low but brings immediate relief not only physically but mentally as well. Hope this helps some and good luck with the program, you are on the right right track! Bruce
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'Never allow someone to be your Priority while allowing yourself to be their Option'.
"What you are is God's gift to you, and what you do with what you are is your gift to God" Too Blessed to be Stressed!!! May Grace and Mercy be multiplied to you.
Lord Help me to Finish Strong - COLOSSIANS 1:10-12
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%207&version=AMP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DasqYiQK7HQ
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Boy do I know what you are going through. After I had began to recover I stopped having full blown panic attacks, but I still had alot of other physical symptoms, weird ones that were unexplainable. I truly thought that something was wrong with me that they just weren't catching. But as I began to get more involved in life again, going back to work, exercising, etc, I had less and less of the symptoms. But the process took a few years until I eventually got alot better.
As for the time always being 9:11, it occured to me that maybe you do look at the clock at other times as we all do, and don't really notice the time, but that whenever it is 9:11 your mind just stops and focuses on those numbers because of the significance of them, and because your a sensitive person, like all of us are, your brain just sends out an alarm when you see those numbers. But in actuality, you do look at the clock at other times and it just goes in one side of your brain and out the other, and you just don't really notice it.
I also have had those times when I was falling asleep and was not able to move. I get them about twice a year and its very scary. But it is something alot of people get, I've even seen it on the Discovery Health shows. But I can relate how scary it is. Just try to tell yourself its a normal thing to experience for alot of people and can't hurt you.
By the way, I am 99.5% recovered and I never used drugs. I did it with this program. Just be patient.
As for the time always being 9:11, it occured to me that maybe you do look at the clock at other times as we all do, and don't really notice the time, but that whenever it is 9:11 your mind just stops and focuses on those numbers because of the significance of them, and because your a sensitive person, like all of us are, your brain just sends out an alarm when you see those numbers. But in actuality, you do look at the clock at other times and it just goes in one side of your brain and out the other, and you just don't really notice it.
I also have had those times when I was falling asleep and was not able to move. I get them about twice a year and its very scary. But it is something alot of people get, I've even seen it on the Discovery Health shows. But I can relate how scary it is. Just try to tell yourself its a normal thing to experience for alot of people and can't hurt you.
By the way, I am 99.5% recovered and I never used drugs. I did it with this program. Just be patient.
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Thank you both so very much for your replys! I am on my way to recovery but I guess that its normal to still struggle a little on the way there? I realize that it took me time to create these negative thoughts and it is going to take me time to break them. I am relieved knowing that you both have experienced what I am feeling. I have a full time job and a 10 month old at home and the wifey duties and I think that I do a great job! I keep pretty busy but my job can be lax at times and that is when I dwell. I am going to get a handle on this! Thank you again!
I used to have that same thing it's called sleep paralysis, basically you can't move any part of your body except your eyes, it used to happen to me all the time when I was younger the only thing i could do was to go back to sleep and wake up again and it would be gone. The strange thing is it only happened if I was asleep on my stomach it has never happened in any other positions so to this day I will not lay or sleep on my stomach.
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Ethan's Mommy-
I can relate to what you're saying. I think noticing the time on the clock and thinking there is some "signifigance" to it is just another type of obsessive thought. A persn who was not an obsessive thinker would not notice such a thing or would quickly dismiss it.
As for as the physical symptoms, it seems the more you focus on any sensation the more you notice it. I think just say to yourself "oh, I feel a little dazed. So what? Let me focus on _____", and move onto whatever you're doing.
As for telling family members about symptoms, I personally find that hard because they just don't "get it" if they've not problems with anxiety themselves. They'll likely say something you perceive as insensitive. Share here instead!
I can relate to what you're saying. I think noticing the time on the clock and thinking there is some "signifigance" to it is just another type of obsessive thought. A persn who was not an obsessive thinker would not notice such a thing or would quickly dismiss it.
As for as the physical symptoms, it seems the more you focus on any sensation the more you notice it. I think just say to yourself "oh, I feel a little dazed. So what? Let me focus on _____", and move onto whatever you're doing.
As for telling family members about symptoms, I personally find that hard because they just don't "get it" if they've not problems with anxiety themselves. They'll likely say something you perceive as insensitive. Share here instead!