Shaking or feeling really 'fast'

Chilaxin17

Member
Do any of you ever shake uncontrollably or feel like you can't sit still when in public? I drove to school today and started walking toward class and was initially fine. As I began to approach other people I tensed up and literally started shaking. Like I feel like my legs get real weak and are going to give out.

Sitting in a lecture hall trying to focus on the discussion I can hardly do so. I feel extremely tense and cannot sit still. If I try to do so I begin to shake and feel the nervous energy coming out. The thing is when I just let it out I feel like I am drawing attention and making myself even more self-conscious :?

If I try to control it and remain still and calm it just makes me even more tense and once again I start to shake. Does anybody else experience this or do you have any input / feedback?

This is really annoying. Today I didn't even want to walk into my classes in fear of knowing that this was going to happen again. I can't even stand going to school because before SA became a huge problem for me I gained a lot of friends and now I wish I didn't!

It is to the point where I just try to zone out and not pay attention to anybody around me when at school, but I feel like such an idiot doing this. And I am still always nervous and sometimes to the point of shaking just walking around :?

Anyway enough venting for now. Does this sound like just SA to you or am I alone on this one. From the posts I read by others I feel like others have problems with SA but not quite to this degree. :cry:
 

Sue

Well-known member
i used to shake alot when i was surrounded by people i didnt know like if there was a party in my house. i would sit in the corner and shake my head off. every time i said to myself "stop shaking your ok relax" id shake even more.

i dont shake anymore because i have more control over my thoughts. at one point i just started to train myself to do small things that made me shake introducing myself to someone i didnt know. even if i ended up running up to my room after.

i always said "well atleast you made the effort" and that always calmed me down. its a great feeling.

i can do alot now without shaking.

one thing at a time man...dont throw yourself in at the deep end.
do the easy stuff first.
 

Chilaxin17

Member
Sue said:
i used to shake alot when i was surrounded by people i didnt know like if there was a party in my house. i would sit in the corner and shake my head off. every time i said to myself "stop shaking your ok relax" id shake even more.

i dont shake anymore because i have more control over my thoughts. at one point i just started to train myself to do small things that made me shake introducing myself to someone i didnt know. even if i ended up running up to my room after.

i always said "well atleast you made the effort" and that always calmed me down. its a great feeling.

i can do alot now without shaking.

one thing at a time man...dont throw yourself in at the deep end.
do the easy stuff first.
Thanks for the input. :)

Makes me feel a lot more optimistic about things. I will try to do exactly that then; easing myself into it and taking it step by step.
 

Chilaxin17

Member
Here's another question I have:

For those of you who have had problems with shaking, do you find yourself to live a fast-paced lifestyle, or to always have a lot of energy?

One thing that I think attributes to my shaking is that I have a high metabolism and am always very energetic. I do things fast, I walk fast, etc.

However, having SA it makes me very self-conscious of this. When other people are walking around campus I notice that everybody seems to be moving at a slower pace, so I try to make myself do so. Another example, standing in line for fast food or something, it seems like everybody is standing still so I try to do the same.

When I try to force my body's tempo to slow down by walking slow or remaining perfectly still that creates tension within my body and causes me to shake (I guess by the energy trying to come out)?

If I didn't have SA I'm sure I wouldn't mind being this fast paced person racing from place to place. Having it makes me so self-conscious and I guess by being so fast it makes me feel like its drawing unwanted attention to myself. However if this is causing me to shake then this is even worse.

Please let me know if you have any feedback about this matter. :)
 

paul

Well-known member
I shake a lot -- quite annoyingly too. Even when I'm feeling just slightly SA I shake. not too noticeably, but if somebody wants to see my hand for some reason or borrow a pencil it seems quite obvious.

I'm a very "fast" person too. I can't stand people who walk around outside really slowly and "enjoy the day." You can do that while sitting! I like to get from place to place quickly, I like having lots of time.

As for tension -- my shoulders tense up a lot and I presume it looks really weird -- it's easy to get rid of though so it's not that much of a problem for me.
Do you also THINK fast? I noticed that when I'm nervous I think about 29524754 things at once, really fast, and then I think "it's okay relax" really fast, sort of self-defeating heh.

If you were a very SLOW person that would be more to be self-conscious about, most people don't think of it as a negative thing that you walk fast.
 

Hurricane

Well-known member
walking fast gives people the impression that you are a busy confident (rather important) person who needs to be somewhere, I once read
 
I walk fast and do things fast too. though it's often the reason I get clumsy and e.g. bump into people or screws up locker combo. So I try to calm down and do things slowly.

walking fast gives people the impression that you are a busy confident (rather important) person who needs to be somewhere, I once read

yeah that makes sense. The reason we mimic those people tho is we want to give people the feeling that we don't have time to sit down and talk to them.
 
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