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15-05-2007, 02:18 PM
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Pandora
We all need our own little private pity parties once in a while. Nothing wrong with that. AND it drives me nuts when people assume we are just feeling sorry for ourselves or when they tell us to just get over it! ! ! ! Makes me want to scream. Sometimes I do scream---into my pillow so I don't freak out the neighbors ya know. Anyway, let's here it for hot flashes. May they rest in peace, please LOL HERC |
19-05-2007, 06:10 PM
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i shake...quite a bit...when scared or angry mainly...as stuff come sback to me (i guess that qualifies as scared...) |
26-05-2007, 10:26 AM
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I shake internally almost all of the time, sometimes it is better, sometimes worse but it is always there. If I am shaking externally it is usually going to be when I am in or close to being in panic mode.
Growing up showing any kind of emotion was a weakness, it made you a target. I have always figured that the internal shaking had to do with that. A "physical" reaction that was not visable. A way for the body to react and work off excess adrenalin or something. |
03-06-2007, 12:25 PM
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When tired or stressed I shake visibly externally. But I also have a TBI from a child abuse injury when I was age 3 also that impacts the neuro system too.
So that has to be taken into account also.
Last edited by anthony; 04-06-2007 at 09:42 PM.
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10-06-2007, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by batgirl  Well I just voted. I shake internally only, and I don't have complex PTSD. My diagnosis is severe chronic. The only time I shake externally is when I'm cold or ill. | Hmm well I need to modify my original response, last night I was having nightmares and when I woke up/half woke up I was shaking externally, more than once in the night actually. I don't recall that ever happening to me before, but it was quite pronounced last night. |
10-06-2007, 02:44 AM
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I shake, externally, usually after a very upsetting memory and often during the entirety of my counselling sessions. I keep hoping that part will let up but there's no end in sight.
Can someone explain the concept of "shaking internally"? |
11-06-2007, 06:37 PM
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I described it above as a shake that won't come out. You feel it in you and your body feels it, but no showing... Hard to explain if you have not felt it. |
20-06-2007, 01:51 AM
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Ugh well I've been having a LOT of shaking lately. Ever since my uncle went to Borden for a week. Now when I wake up from nightmares I am frequently shaking, it lasts a long time, and sometimes the shaking is so severe that it almost physically hurts. I've not sure why this occurring now, and not previously. Unless I just wasn't aware of my shaking before? But that seems kind of odd. |
24-06-2007, 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted by batgirl I've not sure why this occurring now, and not previously. | I beg to differ my dear. Believe you do know why it is occurring now and not previous. Remember what we discussed yesterday evening? Think about it.
Uncle Jim. |
20-07-2007, 07:42 AM
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I get both depending on the situation and if I can control it enough. When I'm in a crowd I tend to shake internally to not attract attention, but when I'm allone or with someone I trust I shake externally and sometimes it is so bad that I can't even draw. I hate when I get into that state because I want so badly to draw something, but my hands would not stop shaking. In the end I actually incorperated shaking into my style of art, oddly enough. *shrugs*
jaa ne
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