HoneyLove
05-11-13, 15:56
Hey guys, just out of interest I was wondering if many of you here are sensitive to medication. From reading about anxiety over the years I get the impression that people who suffer with it tend to be very sensitive to stimulation of all sorts.
I've written here before about the idea of Highly Sensitive People and I think this fits in with it.
Often with medications I find that I tend to suffer with side effects more than the people around me, like I'll get heart palpitations, insomnia or an upset stomach from fairly ordinary drugs.
Sometimes I can feel drugs kick in, or when they stop working.
With caffeine I can feel it tingle in my whole body.
When I was younger and experimented with getting stoned once or twice I could feel the drug move the whole way through my body with just a couple of puffs, it was a soft buzzing feeling that moved through me. My friends thought I was ridiculous lol! I've never experimented with other recreational drugs though, always felt it would be a bad idea.
When I exercise I can literally feel my mood lift and lighten about 15mins into a workout as the endorphins start to work, again I feel it happen in my whole body in almost a slow wave of this happy feeling. My husband doesn't notice the same stuff.
I wonder if this is all a part of anxiety and being hyper aware of my body, or if it's just that I've always been more sensitive to what's happening in my body. I was like this before I ever really had anxiety problems, but it wasn't as bad.
Do you guys experience the same stuff? Or maybe everyone is like this and just with anxiety I pay more attention to it? It's one of the reasons why I am so hesitant to take new drugs!
BTW this isn't something I'm worrying about at all, I've just been thinking about what it's like to live as a sensitive person and trying to fit into the world in a way that doesn't overstimulate me :)
I've written here before about the idea of Highly Sensitive People and I think this fits in with it.
Often with medications I find that I tend to suffer with side effects more than the people around me, like I'll get heart palpitations, insomnia or an upset stomach from fairly ordinary drugs.
Sometimes I can feel drugs kick in, or when they stop working.
With caffeine I can feel it tingle in my whole body.
When I was younger and experimented with getting stoned once or twice I could feel the drug move the whole way through my body with just a couple of puffs, it was a soft buzzing feeling that moved through me. My friends thought I was ridiculous lol! I've never experimented with other recreational drugs though, always felt it would be a bad idea.
When I exercise I can literally feel my mood lift and lighten about 15mins into a workout as the endorphins start to work, again I feel it happen in my whole body in almost a slow wave of this happy feeling. My husband doesn't notice the same stuff.
I wonder if this is all a part of anxiety and being hyper aware of my body, or if it's just that I've always been more sensitive to what's happening in my body. I was like this before I ever really had anxiety problems, but it wasn't as bad.
Do you guys experience the same stuff? Or maybe everyone is like this and just with anxiety I pay more attention to it? It's one of the reasons why I am so hesitant to take new drugs!
BTW this isn't something I'm worrying about at all, I've just been thinking about what it's like to live as a sensitive person and trying to fit into the world in a way that doesn't overstimulate me :)