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I dont feel self aware
I can't even explain it....I feel sort of detatched from myself...like when my husband kisses me or someone looks at me, it feels almost new or strange. It makes me slightly uneasy. I have had this for a few days. Everything feels euphoric and bizzare...from the things I hear to the things I say. Like something I would usually be offended by I don't even care about cause I dont take it personally cause it almost feels like I am the spectator not the victim of the insult. This has only been going on a few days and I don't know what it is....but it is freaking me out. I did just move to another state and 2 days ago my mother in law collapsed in our Kitchen from a cerebral hemorrhage ...I don't know if this contributes.
Does anyone ever feel this just....lack of self awareness?
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Various Worries, Are these normal
I was sitting with my legs crossed...talking to someone and then my leg spontaneously jerked forward (like when a doctor hits your knee with a reflex hammer). I know this is myoclonus, the question is, does anyone else ever get this? This was not a twitch. My whole extremity moved. I worry cause I was awake when this happened. Does anyone else get this when awake ( and not on meds)
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
Sarah, can I ask, or rather perhaps you should ask yourself... Does it really matter if your leg jerked by itself? Did it interfere with your life in any way?
One way to beat HA is to learn that we don't need to explain every little thing nor ask if anyone has it happen to them.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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jray23
Sarah, can I ask, or rather perhaps you should ask yourself... Does it really matter if your leg jerked by itself? Did it interfere with your life in any way?
One way to beat HA is to learn that we don't need to explain every little thing nor ask if anyone has it happen to them.
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Very good advice for any HA suffer
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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Originally Posted by
jray23
Sarah, can I ask, or rather perhaps you should ask yourself... Does it really matter if your leg jerked by itself? Did it interfere with your life in any way?
One way to beat HA is to learn that we don't need to explain every little thing nor ask if anyone has it happen to them.
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Very solid advice indeed! This is something my therapist and I have talked a lot about - basically, acceptance. Radical acceptance, even. Not everything needs an answer, and not everything even *has* an answer.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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jray23
Sarah, can I ask, or rather perhaps you should ask yourself... Does it really matter if your leg jerked by itself? Did it interfere with your life in any way?
One way to beat HA is to learn that we don't need to explain every little thing nor ask if anyone has it happen to them.
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The last time I went to a neurologist, he noted that the next time it happens, to contact him cause myoclonic jerks in any way outside of falling asleep are almost always a sign of MS, brain tumor, or CJD.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
Sure, follow doctors orders, but you've been asking this exact question for years. I'm guessing you haven't had just one doctor visit about this to date (unless this really only happened one other time?)
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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Sarahnadine
The last time I went to a neurologist, he noted that the next time it happens, to contact him cause myoclonic jerks in any way outside of falling asleep are almost always a sign of MS, brain tumor, or CJD.
Can I have their number then because my case of MS/Tumour/CJD must be very advanced by now..... I've had them on and off for 40 years.
Your neurologist is an ass. They're common with fatigue/stress.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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ankietyjoe
Can I have their number then because my case of MS/Tumour/CJD must be very advanced by now..... I've had them on and off for 40 years.
Your neurologist is an ass. They're common with fatigue/stress.
You've had the jerks? Like.... Not twitches but like someone hit you with a reflex hammer and a body part jumps??
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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Meriland30
You've had the jerks? Like.... Not twitches but like someone hit you with a reflex hammer and a body part jumps??
Yes. When I was tired I used to kick people on the way to work on the train all the time. It's especially common when you're cross legged as you're pinching nerves. It's also greatly exacerbated by increased adrenaline levels.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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ankietyjoe
Yes. When I was tired I used to kick people on the way to work on the train all the time. It's especially common when you're cross legged as you're pinching nerves. It's also greatly exacerbated by increased adrenaline levels.
I wasn't really tired. My sleep has been pretty adequate. I have been having these jerks a few times a day, be it my leg, or hand kinda jerks or even my torso seldomly. I also have these weird twitches in my thighs, eyelid, corner of mouth, and bottoms of feet that are pretty relentless. It isn't like the jerking at all...its like a fluttering under my skin but I can't see it visibly, i can just feel it when I touch it.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
I didn't say you were tired, I said I was.
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Quivering/vibrating corner of mouth when half smiling? Normal? Please!
Like...i honestly don't know how long this has been going on but i just noticed today. I was half smiling (by half smiling i mean smirking with only one side of my face...like :noangel:. I notice that if i smirk slowly...like...real slow, the corner of my mouth tremors. I can actually hold the smirk at that halfway point and it is like a essential tremor of my cheek and corner of mouth or something. It stops when i fully half smile, or relax ..but anything inbetween and the corner of my mouth does that. It does on my other side too but not as prominently. I can also elicit this if i have my mouth open like an O and then slowly try and smile while retaining that O shape.
Is this normal? Is this like...physiologically normal/explainable? Does this happen to you if you try it? Is it just cause of the muscle? I am worriedm
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Re: Quivering/vibrating corner of mouth when half smiling? Normal? Please!
Completely explainable. You're holding a position you don't normally hold, of course your muscles get tired and tremble.
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Re: Quivering/vibrating corner of mouth when half smiling? Normal? Please!
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BlueIris
Completely explainable. You're holding a position you don't normally hold, of course your muscles get tired and tremble.
But it happened like right from the get go. I didn't even tire the muscle. I mean do you get this if you try ?
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Re: Quivering/vibrating corner of mouth when half smiling? Normal? Please!
I'm sat on a customer facing desk at the moment, and if I start pulling faces the students will take the piss for evermore.
I'm not entirely sure what you think you have, but health anxiety tends to make you hypervigilant and worry about things that genuinely don't matter in the least.
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Re: Quivering/vibrating corner of mouth when half smiling? Normal? Please!
I just tried this and the same thing happened to me so I'd say your all good
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[B]Can't figure where sound is coming from?[/B]
I had a bizarre thing happen today. I was in the truck with my husband and his phone beeped. When i heard it, it sounded like it was next to me, on my right. I looked over there and he was like "what cha doing?" I said "looking for your phone, it sounds like it is over here for some reason"....then he pulls it out of his pocket all confused like. I heard it in my right ear, but it was all the way to the left pf me in his pocket????
My hearing is fine, and this seems like an isolated incident. Should i be concerned? What would have caused this ?
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Re: [B]Can't figure where sound is coming from?[/B]
Sarah I am going to merge some of your threads together as they all follow a patern.
Please try and keep your concerns to one thread, it makes it easier for others to see the full story
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Re: Various Worries, Are these normal
Honestly this entire thread is common anxiety symptoms + looking feverishly for something wrong.
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Re: Was talking to someone and then my leg suddenly jerked forward?
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Originally Posted by
jray23
Sarah, can I ask, or rather perhaps you should ask yourself... Does it really matter if your leg jerked by itself? Did it interfere with your life in any way?
One way to beat HA is to learn that we don't need to explain every little thing nor ask if anyone has it happen to them.
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Bump.
(And that mouth muscle tremor? Ever go to the gym and very slowly do a lift, and hold it? gonna tremble every time. Muscles do that.)
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I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
I was texting something and actually spelled it like that (no mistext). I noticed it looked odd..then I remembered i shoulda used a C not a S.
Is this a sign of dementia or is forgetting how to spell something simple normal.
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
Well sometimes i do that cause we get in the habit of spelling how things should sound. Also im pretty sure dementia mostly takes place when you're over 65. How old are you?
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
I've mentioned some of the ones I've experienced on other threads like this. You need to remember that anxiety affects neurotransmitters that are involved in cognitive function. Cognitive function suffers due to mental health issues.
Think of it another way, if you are so tired you can hardly stay awake do you find you make mistakes with maths? Does your decision making deteriorate? It's one reason we have laws about our working hours for a start.
I used to be pretty good at maths as my job needed a certain amount of it. Going through difficult periods of my anxiety I would be struggling deducting from a simple supermarket receipt. I've always had an excellent memory, and again my job required this as I had to know a lot of working processes and regulatory licence information, yet I would be struggling to work out a certain work I wanted to say, walk into a room and forget why...I even walked out of a supermarket without paying once after scanning my goods through as a woman distracted me asking about some flowers I was buying :doh: I've even walked across roads without thinking about looking.
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
If misspelling words is a sign of dementia (which I just misspelled), then I'm in big trouble!
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
Sign of being human. I like to think I'm pretty articulate, but I spell words phonetically whenever I'm tired, anxious or simply distracted.
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
Sarah please stop starting new threads about what is basically the same fear.
Go back and read your previous threads, the answers are all there
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
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BlueIris
Sign of being human. I like to think I'm pretty articulate, but I spell words phonetically whenever I'm tired, anxious or simply distracted.
I wasn't tired or distracted tho(?) It went like this...
"Give her no choose"
"Choise"
"***Choice"
My fingers automatically want to use the S still...and I question why that is and why if I look at the word it sometimes looks right and sometimes looks wrong..
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Re: I spelled 'choice' like 'choise'? Bad sign???
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Sarahnadine
I wasn't tired or distracted tho(?) It went like this...
"Give her no choose"
"Choise"
"***Choice"
My fingers automatically want to use the S still...and I question why that is and why if I look at the word it sometimes looks right and sometimes looks wrong..
It’s completely normal, I do it when I’m focusing too much. Especially when I was reading to learn. Still happens now when I’m reading a book.
My spelling is questionable at the best of times too, especially with auto correct being so strong these days. It’s honestly nothing to worry about at all.
Positive vibes,
Mouse
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I think I just had a seizure and i am not even epileptic.
I was staring off just kinda daydreaming and then i had this 1 second long, brief thing happen. Like I got this huge woft or smell without physically smelling anything and my eyes kinda rolled and my stomach dropped. It lasted a split second.
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Re: I think I just had a seizure and i am not even epileptic.
That doesn’t sound like a seizure. Just a little physical blip.
You’ve been posting a lot lately, is there something that’s been really bothering you?
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Re: I think I just had a seizure and i am not even epileptic.
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Scass
That doesn’t sound like a seizure. Just a little physical blip.
You’ve been posting a lot lately, is there something that’s been really bothering you?
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I started having anxiety around Dec 31 over prion diseases cause of some stupid day or two of derealization. It wasn't a serious worry at the time, but it evolved into one cause odd symptoms started popping up 1 after another that correlated with it. While anxiety can be what induces some symptoms, these are pretty specific (I.E visual hallucinations at night while wide awake, hallucinatory palinopsia at night, these 'blips', word finding difficulties, forgetting how to spell simple things at random, seeing objects breathe and doorways shrink and swell, sudden morph like vision either in periphery or head on, etc). The most concerning is the blips and the hallucinations at night..which are very distinctive...like thinking of a snickers bar, then opening my eyes and physically seeing the word 'SNICKERS' on the ceiling...or tons of shifting numbers, like the beautiful mind guy..and I am not even a numbers person. It seems tons of people are willing to tell me it is all anxiety but can't tell me why they think so...and that they never heard of the symptoms but it 'must' be anxiety.
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Re: I think I just had a seizure and i am not even epileptic.
I watched my wife have a full blown Grand Mal in the ER when she took ill. You would have woken up on the floor not having any idea what happened. Please don't come back with some Google inspired 'what if' either. It wasn't a seizure :lac:
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Re: I think I just had a seizure and i am not even epileptic.
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Sarahnadine
I started having anxiety around Dec 31 over prion diseases cause of some stupid day or two of derealization. It wasn't a serious worry at the time, but it evolved into one cause odd symptoms started popping up 1 after another that correlated with it. While anxiety can be what induces some symptoms, these are pretty specific (I.E visual hallucinations at night while wide awake, hallucinatory palinopsia at night, these 'blips', word finding difficulties, forgetting how to spell simple things at random, seeing objects breathe and doorways shrink and swell, sudden morph like vision either in periphery or head on, etc). The most concerning is the blips and the hallucinations at night..which are very distinctive...like thinking of a snickers bar, then opening my eyes and physically seeing the word 'SNICKERS' on the ceiling...or tons of shifting numbers, like the beautiful mind guy..and I am not even a numbers person. It seems tons of people are willing to tell me it is all anxiety but can't tell me why they think so...and that they never heard of the symptoms but it 'must' be anxiety.
Reading through your recent post history, 2 things are obvious.
1-You’re doing extremely abnormal things in order to get “symptoms.” All the staring, darting eyes, shifting vision type exercises are completely out of the norm of daily life. Of course you’re seeing and feeling strange things, the human body isn’t designed for what you’re doing to it.
2-You’re hyper focused on EVERYTHING. You’ve gotten yourself so psyched out that you don’t even know what’s normal and what’s not. You’re experiencing extremely normal “things”, and automatically assuming they’re a sign of something sinister. Then the more you dwell on it, the “worse” it gets.
im sure you’ll push back with a “yeah but....”.....but I’m positive that if you treated your anxiety and stopped focusing so hard on things that it would all disappear.
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Re: I dont feel self aware
Our brains normally 'detatch' from reality if we are dealing from too much emotional stress. Think about it as our mental state is taking a short break to relax and recollect itself, I see you've posted this quite a while ago so I hope it has gotten better for you since then. Try not to worry, I know easier said than done, however, it's just your brain trying to process what has happened and trying to adjust to a new environment. It's just like taking a step back and thinking "has everything always been like this?" With this comes the unfamiliarity of normal things aswell. If this continues try speaking to a professional, it will help.
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Re: I dont feel self aware
Sarah can you please keep this to one thread please.
You have a number of threads on this same subject.
Thanks
Elen
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I feel like I am going batty. Bizarre intrusive thoughts. I am flipping out!!!!
I have been stressed lately and have had a bout of depersonalization to boot. Now I am experiencing some odd thoughts or sensations. These arent like...devious thoughts like suicide, hurting myself or others, etc like intrusive thoughts are typically......mine are like....like those youtube videos all about 'oddly satisfying' things...like cutting through something slowly, or sounds. Like everything around me gives me that vibe...sounds, things I touch, visual things.
I also get these weird intrusive thoughts that make no sense...like looking at a smooth wooden box and wanting to bite into it cause it reminds me of chocolate..or hearing a toilet flush and thinking of oranges for absolutely no reason....don't you think that sounds odd as can be?
Im not going mad, am I? I know what is real and this doesnt really interfere with my life it is just something I have been noticing lately. Can DP and stress cause these bizarre urges and thoughts?
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Re: I feel like I am going batty. Bizarre intrusive thoughts. I am flipping out!!!!
Hi
This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your post was moved from its original place to a sub-forum that is more relevant to your issue.
This is nothing personal - it just enables us to keep posts about the same problems in the relevant forums so other members with any experience with the issues can find them more easily.
Please also read this post:
http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=213239
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Re: I feel like I am going batty. Bizarre intrusive thoughts. I am flipping out!!!!
Can you reply to the multiple PM's I have sent you please.