“Un-usual” Anxiety effects

‘Morning !

Now that you got all the infos needed in my “mental health tag” that I’ve posted yesterday, I want to share the little things anxiety can do to you that isn’t talked about enough. Of course, anxiety and other mental illnesses can affect people in many different ways; This is how if personally affected my body.

For the records; one happened before I was even diagnosed so we had no idea what was happening, while the other one was shortly after I was medicated I believe (so my body was still adapting to the meds)

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Stomach problems

This one occured while I was still in College/first job, so around 2014-2015. I had went to the hospital many times and did all the different tests we could, and the drs continually said my stomach, my blood, and anything else in my body was completely fine; no problem there.

However; I clearly remember that after only a few bites, my stomach felt really heavy and 9 times out of 10, I would throw up all that i’ve had eaten within minutes. One christmas in particular, dad had made us some lobster as he knew that would make me happy, and not even 2mins after I sat down, my body decided to threw it out. I was so pissed… I’ve been weighting the same for years at the time, 120lbs, and during that period I had dropped down to 110lbs in the span a week! That was the first time I had went to the hospital for tests, which my blood got tested and all my percentages was fine. So they were like ” Well … we don’t know what to tell you. ”

What made me notice the weight loss was how when I looked down on my belly, it was flat instead of the little pouch I was used to for so many years. I had always been fine with my body and the way it looks, it never really bothered me, and the worst part is i’m not even working out !! I was working sitting at a desk all day, with no exercice at all, so how in the hell had I lost 10pounds in a week ??! I just panicked. this was NOT what I had wanted, what was happening ?

This is the picture that created my panic; I had gotten a belly button piercing, so I wanted to take a picture of it … and I just couldn’t believe this was how thin I was. Which lead me to weighting myself and noticing the 10lbs off.

At some point I was fearing I had a eating disorder, when I knew it couldn’t, as I wanted to eat !! yet I couldn’t as my body didn’t wanted to keep it. So this lasted a while.. and completely dissapeared as it came, when I got diagnosed and got my first medication for anxiety. I then stumbled upon some “side-effect” of anxiety later in life, which included the stomach problems. That’s when I knew, and everything just made sense..

 

Rashes 

This is the one thing that pushed me to do this post. When I changed my computer, I was sliding through my pictures and saw them. You gotta know that I never was one to have acne, of course I had tiny buttons on my face, but it cleared up when I got on contraception pills at 16 years old.

Again, my doctor had told me that anxiety and such usually came with skin problems. This had been mine for a while until we found out what medication worked on my body. I was working in the public; as a produce clerk at a grocery store. As food was involved, I had no way to cover my face; and cosmetics was out of the question as the rash itself was dried and crusty.. which we can all agree foundation and such would make more harm than good in my situation.

It went from under my mouth, all the way to under one of my eye; covering one cheek entirely. I’ll admit this had been a hard take on my confidence and I didn’t wanted to take any pictures and deleted most of them… but if you pay close attention on the picture i’ve included; you can see it a bit on my left side.

I was also using eos lipsticks, which had caused some “extra” fuss around my mouth as I apparently was allergic to them. After I’ve stopped using that, it had came off a little better; but the main rash was still present. I’ve had tried many face creams, with and without cortisone in it.. nothing was happening.

Thanksfully, it eventually all cleared up months later after I had changed and/or upgraded the dose of anti-depressant I was taking.

 

It can take a while to find what works for you, but when you do find it, most of the problem get resolved and you CAN be better than you were.

Have your mental health created some “not enough talked about” symptoms ?