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Twoapenny:
Hi all,
Healthwise, I have been feeling very good lately. My energy levels are up, I'm sleeping better, I feel calmer and more content, I just generally feel good. But I find that every time I sit down to deal with false accusation related paperwork within half an hour I've got a headache, I feel sick, my neck and shoulders hurt and I get that odd shaky feeling, you know how you sometimes feel if you haven't eaten for ages?
I'm just trying to work in fairly short bursts and do the usual fresh air, good food, plenty of water stuff. I'm pretty certain it's a reaction to what's happened rather than it being some bizarre coincidence. Has anyone else got any other ideas?
Izzy_*now*:
hi twoapenny,
Maybe I am different, maybe not, but I learned more about me throughout this stressful adventure called Life.
After the accident, 4½ years ago, when the end of the month would come, my mood would change, and I gathered after a while that it was because the Insurance Co. was coming to cut more of my funding. Whatever happened, I went back to being the abnormal me.
When a Dr. said I ought to do pool therapy, I said I couldn't. It took 3 months to prove it on land. Until they dropped that idea, I was as tense as could be, as though I were lying, and my therapist noticed these changes,
Tense as the court date drew closer: thought I was calm but developed aches and pains: blamed it on accident.
I tell myself that I am a stressed, anxiety-ridden person and don't even know it, as the results are usually physical.
When I need my arms massaged, She will say relax and I think I have relaxed and she works them over, but then drops my arm. it stays in the air. \it should fall to the bed! That is like my trying to control and not follow orders????? or just always tense.
When I lost the use of my arms, I thought my shoulder rotator cuffs were shot and it was an old folks home for me. but nope a separate condition (PMR) from the accident.
I'm learning to relax about having a "helper" who does most of my work, while I sit at the computer, or lying down reading. I have my therapist, too, and so am well cared for.
I am annoyed that the steroids put weight on my face, waist and feet, but today I finished 5 weeks of treatment but am less annoyed to know that it will drop off soon. anyway, I am old(er) and if I look like Alfred E. Neuman (Mad Magazine) then so be it! (Nevertheless I bought a small package of Ferraro Rocher to celebrate---then will lose it all at once!
I doubt anyone could come to just visit and find me as interesting as I used to be, but in the long run, I think it will return if I don't stress out over every little thing. My life is as it is, 2 'employees', my Will in place and, as I have been doing for a few years, downsizing odds and ends that I no longer use---to the laundry room for another, if useful, or straight to the garbage. I cut my File Folders by half realizing not all paper, documents require saving, and what good are my report card now?
Check (keep an eye on, an open mind re) your stress levels, as stress is very often the cause of physical pain and discomfort!
False accusation would be a stressful thing to deal with----like doctors and lawyers implying I was lying.
Onward Ho!
XX
Izzy
Meh:
--- Quote from: Twoapenny on October 07, 2013, 11:54:03 AM ---Hi all,
Healthwise, I have been feeling very good lately. My energy levels are up, I'm sleeping better, I feel calmer and more content, I just generally feel good. But I find that every time I sit down to deal with false accusation related paperwork within half an hour I've got a headache, I feel sick, my neck and shoulders hurt and I get that odd shaky feeling, you know how you sometimes feel if you haven't eaten for ages?
I'm just trying to work in fairly short bursts and do the usual fresh air, good food, plenty of water stuff. I'm pretty certain it's a reaction to what's happened rather than it being some bizarre coincidence. Has anyone else got any other ideas?
--- End quote ---
Sigh, well yeah, it is probably psychological stress/anxiety. I think psychological stress is powerful --yet because we don't SEE it sometimes we dismiss it and swear I think all of society is dismissive of emotional health in adults. Dogs shake too, when they are cold but also I guess it's nerves. Yeah, personally I have had physical symptoms of anxiety and stress that include: constant tooth grinding at night, tight jaw muscles as a form of stress and tension, headaches, waking up with stomach pain even rashes on my face probably from stress hormones cortisol or whatever it is. I have had a few panic attacks but none recently thank goodness. I think I notice myself being "messier" in times of stress and strain. I am more orderly when things are flowing well.
It's not a coincidence it is stress. Sigh, I've been stressed out my whole life!!!!
How long does this false accusation stuff go on for? Hopefully there will be an END to it at some point.
Good that you are feeling healthier though that is a good sign!!!!
Hopalong:
Hi Tupp,
I'm nearly phobic about paperwork in two areas:
--family related (still have boxes of family residue stuffed under a bed that I should long have sorted/purged)
--financial (ADD + anxiety over never ever ever quite grasping all the numbers/concepts)
One day recently I dragged out a box (family) and went through it. Got a lot done. AND, was flat out weary, achy, dragged out, and physically low...for nearly a month!
I can really really relate.
One blessing for me is one friend, a MSW, who is unshockable and utterly accepting about every weird variant of emotional stuff. (She's been through her share.) She and I for a while worked out a "trade" of simply being with the other, even just reading at the other's home, while each tackled those scary scary scary piles of paper.
If I could do it through cyberspace, I'd offer that cozy support to you. It was an amazing help...and I'm hoping to talk her into it again.
love and understanding (but in the meantime, we need to, I think, approach these things when alone with a LOAD of nurturing compassionate comforts for ourselves, and punctuate the time with a lot of pre-planned, sweet rewarding moments. I read/think/hear that really helps, to deal with the most triggering chores.)
love
Hops
Meh:
Oh...I think I have a somewhat similar example: for a while a collection agency was calling me about an unpaid emergency room visit bill....LOL...they didn't do much except for charge me to breathe in there. And I didn't have insurance..
But now I do not want to answer the phone, it is bad...but every time I hear my phone ring I just kind of dread it.
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