'I feel sick' competitive drama idiots

[dramatix]

Can't bear it when posters say 'I feel sick/physically sick' whenever discussing something terrible.

Ditto when characters are sick when receiving bad news in tv dramas. Literally never happens in real life.

Yes, this can happen in real life.

I am quite even tempered normally and phlegmatic, really,, but there have been a few occasions where something happened where it made me feel physically ill the moment I heard it. Things involving my kids, once or twice, stuff with a relationship once or twice, when my grandfather died.

People say it sometimes I think when it's more just an expression, but even then it is based on the real experience of that kind of thing. And I think some are more prone to that kind of thing than others.

Sometimes people say it though, and I do think, "really? About that?"

Feeling sick is fine, but anyone doing dramatic performative retching can fuck off, it makes me irrationally angry.

😂

Omg just because you don't respond in that way doesn't mean everyone who says they do is lying!
I've never felt sick due to emotional stuff but I know for a fact my husband once threw up with stress over a patient who he thought may have taken their own life.
And I had a friend who spent the day at our joint workplace throwing up because she discovered her boyfriend was cheating on her. She wasn't just saying it for effect.. she didn't say it at all I heard her and she was white and shaking.
Some people really do experience naseua from stress or shock

You’re not wrong OP. Everything is a drama around here. Sometimes you wonder how some of these people get through life since they everything vile and feel sick at everything and everyone.

I have thrown up in shock before, a handful of times. The worst was when a friend died in an accident on the way to my house, I was immediately sick when I heard (all over myself and the floor) and spent the best part of the next few hours shaking uncontrollably and puking. Everyones body reacts differently to shock or stress, and it’s completely involuntary.

But yes, there is a lot of melodrama here for fairly general events, it’s mainly just hyperbole.

I've just seen a trailer for a programme about the Soham murders and the sight of that man's face made me feel sick

The posters who experience nausea when receiving bad news, do you also cry?

The reason I ask is because I very rarely cry, even when it's the expected response, but I definitely feel nauseous and have no appetite, sometimes for days. No tears though.

Definitely happens in real life. When my best friend called and was screaming down the phone her newborn had died, I threw up as soon as she hung up. I did again the morning of and after the funeral.
When the NICU consultant told me to prepare to not take my baby home, was sick then too.
It's a visceral reaction, fuck all to do with attention seeking.

@SidekickSylvia my mum is like that. Gets nauseous at the slightest upset and over things that seem very mild to me. But deaths, funerals, bad news etc she never sheds a tear.

There’s obv a difference between getting devastating news and feeling sick from that but posters feeling sick from a MN post is crazy which I think OP was trying to point out.

But all other posters on here are competing about the news that made them sick which is exactly what OP is saying 😂

I had to pick my mother up off the floor after she answered the door to my cousin who told her that my uncle ( Mums brother) had died suddenly, I was stood behind her, she sank to the floor, retching.

Actually she said people don't get sick from getting bad news in real life. People are sharing examples of times that it did happen in real life.

This.

Erm you are completely wrong.
Perhaps you're lucky that you haven't endured or been faced with a situation that brings this reaction on. It's very very real.

You sound like you're devoid of any emotion and empathy to create such a thread.

…or ‘I’m incandescent with rage on your behalf OP!’ Maybe I’m just cold-hearted but I’ve never been even mildly annoyed at some stranger on the internet….

It is a reflex action to a frightening situation, it is your body literally preparing you to have to run for your life by lightening the weight you are carrying - happens in other animals too, for example if a vulture is attacked and has to "fly of its life" it will often vomit as it leaves the ground, for a faster take off

People react differently. I’m an emotional person and it manifests itself physically in me. Mentally I’m strong though.

I’ve been physically sick with shock a few times
I’m prone to passing out if I hurt myself
I cry frequently and yes, the shaking.

I feel sick when I’m nervous or get really bad news. The nervous thing is really annoying, I can’t control it. Luckily it’s usually just nausea and I can work through it so you wouldn’t know.

I’m not dramatic about it, don’t tell anyone if it’s just nerves. It is however bloody annoying when I’m already nervous (like having to give a speech, it’s something else to cope with along with shaking). I can’t control my body’s reactions so just have to work through it but again I don’t mention it to anyone.

Weird thread 😐

You are definitely wrong in this and are so lucky never to have been in a position where you have had such bad news it makes you vomit .

I vomited at the hospital when we grew closer to turning my grandfather's life support off when I was a teenager.

I have also been physically sick with nerves. I don't consider myself a dramatic person but I am a very anxious person.

OPs gone very quiet

This 100%!

Bravo, OP. I am so glad you have been fortunate in life thus far that nothing has ever phased you to this extent. I'll make a tin foil star, just for you.

Those of us in the real world thank you for reminding us of those horrible moments in our lives, where we have indeed felt this way.

This sickness at extreme bad news is understandable.

I can’t bear the ‘laughter’ stuff. People apparently snorting, waking the baby up, spitting out their tea and wetting themselves. After reading something mildly amusing on MN.