Hello, I’m not a master of english but I’ll try to describe this weirdness that comes to me sometimes. First, it happened more when I was young. I can’t tell when it starts. It’s an uncomfortable feeling that I become aware of. From there it’s a 20min tension that’s slowly increasing in intensity. Thoughts race through my life and I become aware of muscles that are working at that moment. Even just my jaws keeping my mouth closed gives a multiplied feeling of me biting harder than I really am. Holding my fist closed feels like I’m applying a death grip. Time seems faster. This continues to, I would say, a 7/10 intensity at which point it subsides fast, like 10 minutes to completely go away. There’s no pain, just mildly, moderately unpleasant.
Just needs waiting out. Anyone can relate? I’ve never encountered any term that properly describes this.
I get stiff like catatonia but rarely while on meds. The other day my jaw and body muscles were tense without my control. It lasted an hour but not continuous, my mouth was open and I couldnt close it. I couldnt move. Feels tension in my head too. It just happened once since I was on meds.
Without meds it happened daily many times. Its scary. I would freeze and not move my eyes or my body for 15-30min. My parents were hitting me and yelling at me to “wake” me up.
Sorry that happens to you, Aziz. That sounds awful. I wouldn’t know what to do if that happened to me. I hope better remedy is found for it. Mine was about a strange feeling of tension and increased heart rate.
the muscles of my mouth sometimes get really tense, like it’s trying to keep my mouth closed and it feels really weird. It happens some days and then a lot of days not, i think it’s weird. You mean something like that?
@Ninjastar Panic attack is where I think I’m dying but sensory overload kind of describes the fast feeling
@Pikasaur It can be sort of like hypervigilance if the attention was turned inward instead of to surroundings
During the attack I think of only the feeling of uncomfortable times like when I was physically ill. It’s so hard for me to articulate. It’s a feeling that sends me through other feelings of uncomfort in the past. Thank you for answers, guys. At least it’s got me tackling the challenge of explaining a hard to explain sensation.
If it is sensory overload, here are some ways to combat it. Different ones work better for different people, and some will make things better for some and even worse for others.
spin in a circle really fast one way, then an equal number of times the other way
fill a bowl with dry beans or rice, then run your hands through it for a few minutes
get a slow color changing light, and sit in the dark staring at it for a while
take a soft-bristled brush and run it up and down your arms and legs
rub scented lotion over your hands
do a push up
stand in a doorway, and press out against the door frame on both sides
rock in a rocking chair
jump on the bed (if it is safe to do so)
color in a coloring book
There are loads of other things that you can try, and feel free to be creative. Starlet screams to regulate his sensory issues. It is super annoying, and if we lived in an apartment it wouldn’t work. But we live in the woods a half mile from our nearest neighbor, so it works out.