if your stomachâs sensitive because of anxiety, by all means spread out the food you eat over the course of the day instead of having large meals, just donâtâŠnot eat.  you will go into hypoglycemic shock and that will suck.
By the way, symptoms include:
Shakiness.
Nervousness or anxiety.
Sweating, chills and clamminess.
Irritability or impatience.
Confusion, including delirium.
Rapid/fast heartbeat.
Lightheadedness or dizziness.
Hunger and nausea.
(because of the nausea, eating might not feel like the thing to do at first. Â Iâd suggest drinking a coke or something.)
Iâve dealt with sugar crashes before and Iâve collapsed and whited out. Â Iâve had friends do it too. Â If you think youâre going into hypoglycemic shock, and if thereâs anyone else near by, tell them you think itâs happening, even if youâre not prone or itâs never happened before. Â If yourâe alone, make your way slowly to the kitchen/wherever you have food/drinks. Â The standard rule is to take in 15 oz of a sugary drink (orange juice and sodaânot dietâare the best) and wait 15 minutes to see if itâs over, then keep doing that until your sugar is stabilized. Â Then you can eat. Â If you think youâre about to collapse, especially if you start to feel dizzy, sit down and lay down or lean against something. Â Donât risk injury, itâs better to pass out while youâre laying down than it is to collapse and hurt yourself.
*points at this more educated person*
If you are having trouble eating please keep in mind the BRATY diet. Bananas, Rice, Apple sauce, Toast, and (sometimes) Yogurt. These foods have been shown to be harder to throw up. By no means should this be the primary diet, but this can assist in the between times when itâs harder to keep things down.
this was really helpful
As someone who has a super nervous stomach this is super useful!!
I get this all the time at work particularly, good to know!
Iâm actually pretty prone to this, and thereâs been quite a few times that Iâve come close to passing out at work because they didnât want to send me on break so I could eat. Itâs a really horrible feeling.
So yeah. Take it from someone whoâs hypoglycemic issues: please donât just not eat.
Plain wheat crackers got me through large portions of high school. And ginger ale is given to sick people for a reason: the bubbles and a trace of ginger help calm the stomach.
Neurotypicals: Donât let your condition bother you or affect your life in any ways! I know you have x disorder, but the symptoms shouldnât really impair your life!
DSM Diagnosis of Literally Every Disorder: The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
So these little comics have been going around for awhile now, and they bother me to an extent. I have multiple chronic Illnesses. I also have multiple mental illnesses. I hate to break this to everyone but what the little characters are saying to the physically ill person, is not how it goes 99% of the time if that illness is chronic. Chronic – meaning it isnât temporary. People get tired of hearing the same symptoms, people normalize your illnesses and treat them like its nothing for you to be in excruciating pain, or so sick you canât get out of bed. I literally have said ALL of the things the physically ill characterâs have said, Iâm going to go in order and show you how it went –
Me: âI feel like im dyingâ
Other person: âstop being dramatic. Youâre fine! STOP COMPLAINING.â
Me: âI wish I could find a doctor that could get to the bottom of thisâ
Other person: âwell there are some at Bostonâs children hospital but your insurance wonât cover itâ
Me: âI donât feel good today.â
Other person: âthatâs not good, but just push through itâ
Me: âI was in too much pain to leave my bed.â
Other person: âoh? Thatâs kind of lazy. You couldnât do anything?â
Me: âIâve been feeling better lately!â
Other person: âwow so does this mean youâre gonna FINALLY apply to college and get a job?â
Me: â sorry I cant go, i donât feel well.â
Other person: âyup. Like always. Whatever.â
I know mental illness isnât viewed the same as physical illness. But I have both, and neither get treated the way they should. Please do not assume having a physical illness is a walk in the park either. I wish this specified if they mean someone who has a temporary illness like the flu, or a broken arm. Or if they do mean chronic illness because the two are totally different.
I like to remind people that fireworks dont just affect PTSD in combat vets.
I have paranoid schizophrenia, severe anxiety and ptsd that has nkthing to do with combat or military and fireworks set me off too.
Be courteous of those around you, donât set off in the street while in a busy town, and sstop blowing shit up at a reasonable time
Be smart about it. Be respectful. You can choose to set off fireworks – we donât get to choose go have a psychotic attack or flashbacks or dissassociation ect.
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If you need to relocate, move or leave where youâre residing, donât feel ashamed by it. Sometimes places or locations have such negative attachments from whatever happened that you get physically ill just from being there.Â
There may be people who will tell you that youâre ârunning awayâ, âavoiding the problemâ, or trying to âescape everythingâ. Donât listen to them. Your mental health matters. You have the right to heal.
I just moved across the country to get away from my abuser. My last therapist told me that I was only running away from my issues and it would do nothing to help me get better.
For the fist time in 5 years I can leave the house without fear of my abuser stalking me or of him showing up at my job to harass me. This is a very real thing to do that can and does do wonders to help your mental health. Itâs is by no means a permanent solution, but it can make life so much easier.
i moved to a new country. they told me not to. best decision iâve ever made.
if you have something to run from, itâs ok to run.
it only becomes a problem when you are trying to run from yourself, because wherever you go there you are.
Try to remember that your partner might need more explanation for your thought process than you think is necessary, especially if itâs a ânegativeâ thought.
âI disagree with youâ â>Â âI disagree with you, but Iâm not angry at you, and Iâm not going to yell at you for not agreeing with me.â
âIâm hurt by what you didâ â>Â âIâm hurt by what you did, but I donât hate you, and I donât think youâre a bad person. I just want to discuss it.â
âIâm frustratedâ â>Â âIâm frustrated, but it doesnât mean I donât care about you.â
What feels obvious to youâthe underlying asumption that of course you still love this person, of course this is just a single feelingâis not obvious to someone who has been trained to flinch at every criticism. Take the time to explain your feelings and their meanings to ease both your fears.
I keep looking for an article that I know Iâm not going to find. I need someone to tell me that itâs ok to leave the house. For someone to say that no oneâs going to kidnap me in the grocery store parking lot and Iâm not going to get mugged when walking down the street alone. But no oneâs going to say that, because no one can. No one knows. At the end of the day you just have to decide for yourself if the risk is worth it. Is it better to sit indoors and wonder about what the world could be like, or should you go and find out for yourself? There are risks in both, but for some reason we tend to think about one more concretely than the other.Â
You donât know what itâs like to leave the house with a package of pills that you made yourself believe will help reduce your nausea and your attack. You take them but they never ever help. It gets bad every single time again.
You donât know what itâs like to tell yourself every single time that you will try to go outside again and that you will get over your fear just to cause another scene, another anxiety attack, another embarrassment. Â Every single morning itâs like youâre signing up just so you can disappoint yourself and its exhausting.
You donât know what itâs like to automatically say âno thanksâ to someone who offers you to go do something fun together because the thought of sitting in the car with them and having to embarrass yourself drives you fucking nuts.
You just donât understand what itâs like to miss out on every trip. To have to lie to people and tell them you donât like theme parks, that you donât like concerts, or shopping.. Just because youâre too fucking scared to tell them you are scared of the ride there, the people and the attack that will come.
You just donât understand what itâs like to grow anti-social because you can never keep your promises. To feel confident about a situation and to tell someone that youâre coming with them, but then moments before an attack strikes again and you cancel your plans. That may not seem troublesome to you but trust me after about 10 times people will stop asking you and youâll end up being alone.
You just do not understand what itâs like to be unable to enter a building without feeling obligated to check for all the possible ways out. To sit in a classroom and curse yourself until you run out crying leaving your teacher and classmates laughing.
You donât understand that this phobia is keeping me chained. And that no matter how many therapy sessions I get, it will be with me forever.
This is not depression speaking, no. This ismy reality.
I will wake up every single morning for the rest of my life having to worry about going to unfamiliar places and it is wearing me out.Â
đ„ There is beauty in destructionđ„ 