The Vent and Rant Thread

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

On introverts and the internet, if we want to interact we can. If we don't want to interact, we don't have it. In the other world, you have to interact.

Luckily, my mom never made me play with the other kids.
I always thought my best friend was outgoing and she thought the same of me until we were talking about it and realized we NEVER had anyone over from school. It was always just us and neither got offended if the visiting one wanted to go home.

Yes, the Internet is a godsend for Introverts.

My rant at the moment? Stupid panic attack. Trying to breathe my way out of it.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Yes, the Internet is a godsend for Introverts.

My rant at the moment? Stupid panic attack. Trying to breathe my way out of it.

Huggs.

Yeah, right .... like a hug from a total stranger is going to *help*!!

[CRussel]

Hugs always help, bgd. But they help better in person.

None the less, covingtoncat73, hugs from here, too.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

Yes, the Internet is a godsend for Introverts.

My rant at the moment? Stupid panic attack. Trying to breathe my way out of it.

Distraction is key. Talking to yourself also helps. I use to have some bad ones. I no longer deal with them. Sometimes a good cry helps.

For me whenever I would feel out of control is when they would hit. No I know how to keep them from happening. It's a lot of trial and error in finding what works for you.

Sent from my Nexus 7

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

Huggs.

Yeah, right .... like a hug from a total stranger is going to *help*!!

A total stranger who just put on a Halloween avatar -- so now even *I* don't recognize my own posts. Sheesh.

[Rumpelteazer]

For a week now I have both a painful hip and sore ribs. I put the painful hip down to a pulled muscle; last week I did a lot of heavy and awkward lifting and I cycled with very strong headwind. The sore ribs I put down to me sleeping in a different position than normal due to my hip.

However, last night one of the nearby cafés had their music on really loud and I put in my earplugs. And I noticed that my heart rate was a bit higher than normal. Not a lot, but still. And I realized I was having a sneaky anxiety attack.

I've had one before, it isn't like a normal anxiety attack where breathing can get difficult and my heart rate shoots up. But with a sneaky one I breath shallower than normal, I obviously tensed the muscles around my ribs, hence the sore ribs. The other time I had a sneaky attack my leg also hurt, albeit a bit lower down. Eventually it turned into a full anxiety attack and caused me to go to the doctor. Who explained that the pain (and tingling, which I don't have now) in my leg was down to the shallow breathing.

So I'm now trying to regulate my breathing and have my body relax. I'll expect it'll take a couple of days before I get it under control and hopefully the pain in my hip will disappear. An full blown anxiety attack is easier to get under control than this type of attack, because it's so subtle.

[Blossom]

Have you been tested for GERD? Your symptoms sound very similar to what I go through without my Nexium. GERD isn't acid reflux or heartburn although it can cause it. It can seem like a panic attack. Chest tight, breathing shallow, pain in arms, legs, back. I even get it on the back my skull. A full blown attack feels like the flu. I went years undiagnosed. They told me it was part of anxiety sent me home with downers. It wasn't until it progress into acid reflux did I get a proton pump inhibitor prescribed. Within two weeks all pain gone, no more so called anxiety attacks. That was in 2008.

Sent from my XT1528

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Have you been tested for GERD? Your symptoms sound very similar to what I go through without my Nexium.

No, but I will certainly keep it in mind. However, my breathing problem is really a breathing problem due to a dictatorial headteacher.

Spoiler:

When I was about eight I was called to the headmaster's office together with a couple of other kids of different years. We were told that we breathed through our mouth, that we weren't panting dogs and that we should breath through our nose. And not just that but do it quietly. If he caught us breathing either through our mouth or breath heavily through our nose we would be punished.

My solution to breath as quietly as possible through my nose what to breath shallowly, or high, as my physiotherapist calls it.

This horrified both my speech therapist and physiotherapist when I told them.

I paid attention to my breathing today and my chest isn't as tight anymore and even my leg isn't as painful as previous days (though that could also be down to some extra painkillers, though yesterday they didn't work).

My weekend has started just now and for the next two days I haven't planned to do much. So I can rest, relax and do some breathing exercises.

[Rumpelteazer]

Not really a vent or rant but I had to laugh at the this article with the recent discussion about introverts still in my mind. I just want them all.

[Katsunami]

Isn't there some sort of a discussion thread somewhere? I see people (including me) sometimes use the V&R thread for discussing all sorts of subjects.

Maybe it would even be an option to have a more serious non-reader related subforum for general discussions, without the games/unutterably silly stuff from the lounge?

[Freeshadow]

Long ago it was this way. This would usually be a lounge topic.
And yes there was a topic on introversion derived from the an old psychology today article "revenge of an introvert" https://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...-the-introvert and the book "Quiet" both by Susan Cain

[badgoodDeb]

But yeah, I want most of those tee-shirts too!

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

Long ago it was this way. This would usually be a lounge topic.
And yes there was a topic on introversion derived from the an old psychology today article "revenge of an introvert" https://www.psychologytoday.com/arti...-the-introvert and the book "Quiet" both by Susan Cain

That article is so right.

I think that if I'd go and try to classify myself somewhere on the scale of [introvert]===============[extravert], then I'd fall off of the left end.

[John K]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Not really a vent or rant but I had to laugh at the this article with the recent discussion about introverts still in my mind. I just want them all.

I like this one.

[Freeshadow]

I'm more for the "don't hate people" one