I can't work out what the cause of my HH. For a long time I thought it was a physical illness or underlying medical condition but after seeing spe******ts and doing a lot of tests, that all have come back negative, I've been speaking to others including cbt therapists that strongly believe my HH is caused by anxiety, anyone have any thoughts on this ?
I have full body HH and facial sweating is very hard to deal with
Appreciate feedback or thoughts on this
Thanks
The never ending question I guess...bottom line is there's no definitive answer on this issue yet.
I think I already mentioned this on here in the past but personally for me it has been the same thought process you describe. For a long time I insisted that it was a purely physical thing...it had to be in my opinion cause it was just not acceptable to me that HH could be the result of 'mental weakness' on my part that was then also potentially caused by some negative experiences with people as a child (in my case mostly an influential bully in the hood that was a few years older than me and later turned out to be gay which was probably the reason of his bullying behaviour *don't mean to offend anyone but I mean he was probably struggling with coming to terms with his situation).
Now I've realised I can't be sure either way. Maybe it's physical, maybe psychological...I can't exclude the possibility that having that negative experience as a child for no reason instilled some sort of irrational fear for humans in me that makes my sympathetic nervous system go haywire anytime I'm in a social situation. Btw the 'no reason' part I think is pretty important cause I think it's worse than for instance being teased because you're fat or have glasses or whatever...in that case you can kind of 'rationalise' the behaviour, but if there's no reason you're judged because of you're you...(while more realistically it was probably just hate but you never realise that at the time).
But then...tons of people with a similar or way worse youth experiences have no (sweat) problems at all. And at school in my own grade I couldn't have wished for a better group of people to spend my early years with...so what does it take to develop HH?
This question is knocking around in my head quite often...but at the end of the day it doesn't do that much good. Even if the origin of HH may be psychological I don't believe one can alieviate it with psychotherapy, if you have full blown HH the nervous system is way too far out of whack for that if you ask me.
) which is a little on the cold side (37 is the accepted normal value).