How can I calm down better?
I’ve noticed this starting a few months ago. I’ll start writing a response on a politics message board and I get really enveloped by what I’m writing. I notice that I start to itch (in patches). Usually, I can just sit on the couch, watch some tv, and calm down (progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing usually really help). Today, I was taking my cell biology final and I was itching like crazy. I mean I couldn’t stop at all and I lost focus on what I was doing because the itching was so distracting. Obviously I was really into that final and also worried about doing well.
So what can I do to stop this anxiety? I don’t exercise much at all, so I’m sure doing some more of that wouldn’t hurt, but what else can I do to calm myself down and to relax better?
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you have a serious need of religion. You’re having an extreme reaction to low levels of stress inducers. Believe in something bigger than yourself, and get some perspective.
Good luck. Really.
IMHO- I dont think ‘stress’ causes itching symptoms, but if you applied something to your skin or ate something about 10 minutes to five hours earlier, then that might be the cause.
Also when my own body dumps adrenaline or when I work out, I go into itch mode due to my non-alcoholic fatty liver and biliary disease.
I hope this helped.
EDIT:
KNOWING WHAT I NOW KNOW, I WOULD CONSIDER ALLERGIC REACTIONS TO SOAPS OR HOT SHOWER WATER AND/OR ‘POSSIBLY’ A FUNGAL INFECTION THAT IS TRYING TO TAKE HOLD ONTO YOUR SKIN. On me, the rash-itch reactions always occur at the weaker parts of my skin where I would usually sweat a-lot and not at the tougher parts.
SEE: <> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis <>
ALSO see about “heat rashes” at: <> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinergic_urticaria <> which in my opinion is caused when one sweats out strong toxins onto a weakened area of one’s skin.
IF a fungus is trying to take hold, an anti-fungal anti-bacterial like Monistat_Derm for open areas, or Monistat_7 for moist areas, or Desenex for the feet, or Head and Shoulders for the scalp may ‘assist’ in the healing process, OR it may be viral hand foot and mouth disease, OR the problem may need stronger antibiotics in pill form if one’s body may be ‘allowing’ the beginnings of deadly bacterial meningitis to grow – although bacterial meningitis would be very very rare in the more industrialized countries. I mention this not to scare you, but to ‘encourage’ you to continually monitor your symptoms, and to seek out ‘good’ advice that will help you get stronger real soon.
SEE: <> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand,_foot_and_mouth_disease <>
and
<> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_Meningitis <>.
ALSO, consider that whenever one’s immune system becomes weakened from allergic reactions to toxins OR antibiotics OR petroleum / wood-alcohol based cosmetics OR from inadequate micro-nutrition absorption in the gut OR inexpensive synthetic chemical based nutritional supplements, then fungal-bacterial infections ‘always’ try to take hold onto one’s skin since one’s immune system is then at its weakest.
I truly hope you will quickly find a ‘good’ physician that will give you solid short and long term advice, and after you do it – the advice will keep you and yours healthy and strong for a lifetime.
My best to you,
AI
PS –After many years of needless sufferings with my own skin problems until I learned some long term advice from a ‘good’ physician, I have finally come to understand that better non-toxic micro-nutritional absorption in the gut and occasional fastings actually heals our bodies for the long term, rather than just covering up a serious nutritional deficiency with lotions and meds until the lotions and meds will no longer work. I have also become severely allergic to antibiotics that for me cause Urticaria-hives, and petrolatum based skin creams that have caused serious pains and large swellings in my lymph glands.
IF YI, this is a more detailed report I recently posted for another who had a malady that eventually affected their skin.
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I hope I might have helped a little. <3