Crying and shaking

awww. Did she get it back lol.

When I've had panic attacks I think so, yes.

My 2yo does. Last time was this evening, when she lost a bit of blue tak down the radiator.

@somethingisnotquiteright I don't get what you are getting at. Crying and shaken is a stress response normally associated with adrenaline.
Certain situations affect people in different ways...

I have witnessed a lot of traumatic situations being a nurse for 17 years with acutely ill patients and palliative patients. Both young and old.
I've resuscitated people when I've been off duty, sexually assaulted at 13. Been with numerous close relative when they were dying and died infront of my eyes.

The only thing that got me crying and shaking was my beautiful husband having a seizure and turning blue in front of my eyes.....he now has epilepsy. I've been with him for 21 years and we're only in our 30s.
I thought he was going to die.
I have nursed many patients who have had seizures and practically wise I knew what I had to do to keep him safe as possible.
I ended up having treatment for PTSD in the form of CBT then EDMR therapy......

I 100% cried and shaked on numerous occasions and have lots of panic attacks where I couldn't sleep...

Traumatic deaths where people have bled out of every orifice is horrific and I have cried on those situations.

But my lovely husband being unwell affected me the most and made me unwell

Not even joking, I cry and shake.
Not every time I cry, granted. But it depends how upset I am, how angry, how hurt, how scared, if I'm being goaded, if it's developed into a panic attack or not etc etc.

That being said however, I have diagnosed emotional dysregulation & GAD (possible BPD) so ig that's pretty typical of that diagnosis?

EDIT; Sometimes I can cry for hours. Thought I'd mention this as I saw PP have mentioned not being able to understand those who do this, unfortunately it's not within my control and I very much wish I wouldn't as it makes my eyes swell up something chronic and is unbelievably painful.
My breathing hitches when I cry and it starts a very hard to get out of cycle.

I'm always a bit puzzled by people who claim to have been crying for hours on end. Even when in the depths of grief, I haven't done that, and couldn't do it, not least because after a time I just get exhausted.

I also remember shaking uncontrollably when I got a phone call to say that a close friend had been found dead. No crying, just shaking. Really horrible feeling.

I spend a lot of time trying not to cry in public at the moment, and suppressing it makes me shake.

I have daily panic attacks multiple times a.fay, severe OCD, panic disorder and other anxiety disorders, ADHD and physical health concerns. I'm always teetering on the edge and crying and shaking at the same time for me is typical of one of my really severe anxiety attacks and comes out of no where. I've also had both at the same time after a bad car accident, after my brother died but also for something alot more minor, like a minor argument or inconvenience.

Agree OP. Add to that the "in so much pain I was crawling". Yeah, always gets a 🙄 from me. I live in constant pain and the thought of crawling when in extreme pain is just not possible. Using walls to stay upright, yep, totally get that, but crawling uses way too many muscles to be pain friendly IME.

But you are making them because you don't believe that anyone can be affected in a different way to you, because nobody can have had it worse.

I was shaking and crying last night 😳 probably not how you mean though. I have an illness that can cause the excessive release of certain hormones and my body goes haywire, I felt like absolute shit and cried because I felt sorry for myself.

I shake after getting angry and I also get tearful when I'm angry so sadly I do shake and cry occasionally. I recently had to stand up to a bully in a situation at a place I volunteer at and after he had gone I started shaking and then when someone who witnessed what happened asked if I was ok I got emotional and had a little cry. Was very embarrassing but can't help it.

I also was shaking and crying and probably sobbing when my then 12 year old daughter was surrounded by a team of doctors and nurses in a crash situation in hospital.

My toddler for sure does crying and shaking at the same time. Sometimes it's like you can see the adrenaline physically hitting her body.

My teeth chatter when I get really anxious and I've broken down sobbing many times since I witnessed my dad pass away

Yes!

After I watched medics resuscitate my four year old daughter and bring her back to life!

It was surreal, a mixture of shock, joy, relief.... I didn't even realise that I was trembling until my husband grabbed hold of me.

I don't think I've ever shook as an emotional response and I have enough trauma to make a therapist need therapy however I imagine it's a very individual thing, just like we all feel emotions differently, we all react to emotions differently, some people cry, some don't, some hyperventilate, some vomit, some clearly shake and cry

@somethingisnotquiteright I don’t think people are saying you are lucky that you haven’t been through the experiences that you have gone through.

I think they are saying that you are fortunate that your reaction wasn’t something that led to the adrenaline in your system producing the long term effects we have all spoke about.

I wish to god I didn’t feel the way I do now and worry about my left arm working and throwing up when stress rises. It never used to happen.

I always thought I could handle stuff, I’ve been through a lot, and the one day it just changed, my physical reactions were undeniable and I have been in counselling ever since to get back that control.

No one ever said that that your experiences weren’t valid, only that they are glad you hadn’t gone through the same thing. I would give anything not to have gone through this uncontrollable experience of trauma, I would.

I've done both but not at the same time. When I went into theatre to give birth with forceps etc I could not stop shaking. Crying came after he was born but had the shakes for ages.

I've done it once in 55 years. People on here seem to do it every 5 minutes.

I have before when having a panic attack.

It's usually a shock response to shake I think

It can happen. The night I got home from the hospital after my Mum died, I was certainly crying and shaking at the same time. I was in great distress.

IRL if I'm finding something really funny, I tend to snort like a pig if I laugh really hard. Had a few snorts this week with mates and kids.

Tbf some things on here are really funny

Yup