St. Theresa
03-14-2001, 07:34 PM
Well, my reactions to stress and anxiety seem to have changed a lot over the years.
As a child, I would have asthma attacks. My ignorant mother would never take me to a doctor and I would suffer for days at a time. One day, when I felt one coming on I prayed to God (and I don't believe in God anymore ~ Dreamchaser, here's your opening) that I wanted to have really bad stomach aches instead of asthma attacks. So that's exactly what happened. For years, I would get suffer gastrointestinal distress instead of shortness of breath.
In recent years, after the birth of my children, I began having breathing problems again in reaction to stress. It wasn't exactly like asthma. A really strange feeling ~ sorta like needing to yawn, feeling like I couldn't get a deep breath and it would last for days.
Now...lol, this is a little embarrassing...I get a different reaction. It's, well...I feel like my underwear is suffocating me. Feels like a frontal wedgie. Hey, it's better than asthma and stomach pain, but it's really weird. When it first happened, I took off my pants and undies first chance I got and walked around in a nightgown figuring I would feel relieved, but that didn't happen. When my son or my daughter starts whining, I find myself pulling my pants out of my crotch. (And no, I didn't ask God for that one.)
Does anyone else have unusual anxiety and stress symptoms? Am I the only one who feels like her underwear is bonding with her vaginal lips? LOL. Really, I'm totally, totally serious!
As a child, I would have asthma attacks. My ignorant mother would never take me to a doctor and I would suffer for days at a time. One day, when I felt one coming on I prayed to God (and I don't believe in God anymore ~ Dreamchaser, here's your opening) that I wanted to have really bad stomach aches instead of asthma attacks. So that's exactly what happened. For years, I would get suffer gastrointestinal distress instead of shortness of breath.
In recent years, after the birth of my children, I began having breathing problems again in reaction to stress. It wasn't exactly like asthma. A really strange feeling ~ sorta like needing to yawn, feeling like I couldn't get a deep breath and it would last for days.
Now...lol, this is a little embarrassing...I get a different reaction. It's, well...I feel like my underwear is suffocating me. Feels like a frontal wedgie. Hey, it's better than asthma and stomach pain, but it's really weird. When it first happened, I took off my pants and undies first chance I got and walked around in a nightgown figuring I would feel relieved, but that didn't happen. When my son or my daughter starts whining, I find myself pulling my pants out of my crotch. (And no, I didn't ask God for that one.)
Does anyone else have unusual anxiety and stress symptoms? Am I the only one who feels like her underwear is bonding with her vaginal lips? LOL. Really, I'm totally, totally serious!