Have you ever experienced emotional pain so intense that physical pain also manifests itself?

I’ve experienced physical manifestations of anxiety – feeling light-headed, having headaches, being incredibly nauseous all the time, etc. That anxiety was caused by emotional trauma in my life. So yes, I think there’s definitely a strong connection between the mind and body, and I think emotions play a very large part in our physical well-being.

yes, i had been in a relationship whose end I foresaw but didn’t want to acknowledge. I moved mountains, mentally, to ensure that everything I did worked towards the result I wanted and not the one that I knew was inevitable. I flat out disregarded or consciously manipulated every piece of input I received with a truly manic energy to make it fit the world I wanted even as I brutally beat down the part of me that so clearly saw and understood reality. Finally, one day for all my efforts, that part said “enough” and asserted itself. It did so in that way that can only come from something that has been straining against it’s chain so mightily and for so long. And when it did it was like being hit punched in the stomach, while you have food poising, in the midst of the flu (symptoms and all though without the coughing and uncontrollable mucus – tmi i’m sure, I even registered a very low fever, had cold sweats, and tremors). It lasted for a couple days, continuous and uninterrupted, but finally I calmed down enough to think and began considering it rather than hiding from it. Once I gave it it’s due and corrected my actions to match my mind and instincts it cleared like a breaking storm.

I do believe the two coexist. Is it psychosomatic? by definition I suppose it is.

Yep, for years. Aside from that, I get nauseous and shaky when I’m hurt/upset/angry, and it feels as though my body’s on fire. Pretty bad temper. And no, I don’t know how to fix it.

Yes, when I experienced grief from the loss of my sister, I was surprised at how physical the pain was.

I’m living through that right now. Grief amplifies physical pains that that were previously ignored or tolerable. Sciatica, joint pains, migraine headaches are more intense. My ability to “act” my way through social situations has evaporated, replaced by a full-blown social phobia. My alocohol and tobacco consumption has skyrocketed.

Yes. As you say, a person can experience psychosomatic symptoms while under emotional distress. I find that I get more headaches when I’m stressed out.

The only time I have even come close to that is the grief I felt when I lost a man in combat, and even then, there was usually too much going on to have time to deal with it.

I get this quite frequently. I usually slap myself or jolt my body. Snaps my brain out the train of thought quite well.

Yes, when my mother was dying my stomach hurt so bad I thought I was getting an ulcer.

Grief, anxiety and depression are often experienced as bodily pain as part of the symptom complex. What do I always advise for severe difficulty dealing with these problems?

Get Help!

Yes. Twice.

First when my Grandpa died.

Second when I was surprised and asked for a divorce by my wife and I realized I wouldn’t see my kids every day. Every single day I don’t want to eat. My stomach hurts. I can’t sleep. I don’t want to stop kissing them on the head good night. Because by the end of this month it will be every other weekend. It is my second worst fear come to life.

Yes, I tend to get nauseous and throw up when I am nervous or upset. I also breakout in hives which is a dead give away that something is wrong.

yes, it can happen, and it has happened a lot to me in the past year. The weird thing is that it doesn’t necessarily come at times of extra stress, it can just happen suddenly when I’m relatively calm.

Yes, I pretty much lived in a fog when I lost my husbands for about a year. it was a long time ago, and I’ve lived a completely different life since those days.

Yes and it was the worst time in my life. To be brutally honest, I would rather die than go through that kind of emotional pain again and that is no exagerration.

@Leanne1986 I could not agree more!!

The night that my sister’s father kidnapped her from my mother’s home where I was living, and where my sister was living I felt a lot of emotional pain. He had taken away my little sister, and the emotion that ensued from that turned into physical pain. My whole body ached and my head was constantly pounding.

Another time my emotions triggered similar pain was when I discovered that my best friend had been murdered. I was also unable to feel other emotions or physical feelings such as pleasure or any other type of warm emotions only sadness which resulted in not feeling anything physical unless it was pain.