Others who feel their emotions in their body?

[mangomungo]

I feel strongly my feelings in my body. When depressed my whole body feels depressed. I also suffer from bad feeling, which I feel in my body. No one has ever understood or known what that badness is. I am really suffering from it and no med I have tried has helped and neither did the therapy I had. I am just wondering if someone has suffered the same.

How do you mean by sensing bad feeling in your body?

Yes, I do.
I feel nausea when I'm upset.
I feel gut wrenching pain when feeling sad, or alone.

Yes. I used to experience fear in the way you describe your bad feeling. It took a lot of counselling to identify it as fear...and quite a bit of work to learn how to not be feeling that way a lot of the time.

me, i feel everything

Did you try meds to combat that feeling? I have tried many without success. I had short therapy but we didn't get far. Anxiety seems to be one component of it.

Me, no I didn't. I felt I needed to figure out what it was, and if drugs were masking it then I wouldn't be able to. CBT helped a lot.

I get anaemic quite a bit, and m hypothyroid, which has developed over time and went undiagnosed for years.

I had sixteen sessions of cat therapy. We figured out anxiety was part of it but didn't really have time to combat it. At the moment I am suffering rather badly and hoping for some quick fix.

Yes.
I somatise.

When I feel anxious, if DH is around he twlls me I can choose how I feel. This might swem like bad advice, might even seem cruel (it can feel like it) but so far, trusting him and going ahead with whatever it is we'd planned has been the quickest help out of anxiety for me. A lot of the time he isn't around, and I find other waways...dwelling on something positive; making a liat of positives; putting difficulties into perspective etc

I went on an NHS course recently which helped.

My cpn mentioned about some anxiety course nearby where I live. I might ask about it.

One psychiatrist thought that my bad feeling is because of anxiety and depression. My body doesn't feel depressed but my mind does according to the online depression tests.

It is difficult to live with constant bad feeling. I Have been told to distract but then I end up feeling bad and distracting...

The mind can be a very powerful thing...you can control it and you make choices.

There are some kinds of body-centred or somatic psychotherapy, maybe that would help?

In a way perhaps it's a good thing you're so attuned to your body and emotions, that you're not divorcing yourself from them.

Or maybe self-indulging in them and over-thinking?.

Or maybe self-indulging in them and over-thinking?.

For me - I get ill when I am trying to deny how emotionally stressed I am feeling. I think I am doing fine, despite being under what is objectively lots of pressure - then I will get a migraine, symptoms of a uti that are so convincing but an infection never shows on the dip, or I get a fast tachycardia/heart beat that makes me faint, and I have had to go on beta blockers. While all this is happening, if you asked me if I felt emotionally stressed/depressed, I would honestly answer no, but my body is trying to tell me otherwise.

I think it is because I have never been able to cope with strong emotions, and when I am stressed I just don't have time for them and don't want to give in to them.