Are the feelings in my nerves normal
Are the feelings in my nerves normal
Nerves are often felt when people are suffering from stress related illnesses.
This is normal for someone who has anxiety, depression, insomnia and other stress related illnesses.
If you read Fight,Flight or Fright you might remember me mentioning the responses that you go through.
In order to understand what you went through you need to understand what your brain is doing.
We need to think and move very quickly.
The body needs more oxygen in organs such as the heart, brain, lungs and the muscles.
Other organs such as the stomach the genitals and the skin can delay their tasks until the danger is over.
Faced with danger the body produces adrenaline and similar hormones which sends messages via the nervous system from the brain, this is what gives us the physical effects that are very unpleasant at the time.
We have to become more alert, our muscles have become tensed up and ready to react.
This is so we can think faster, our arms and legs are ready to fight or run away.
The adrenaline flows, the blood and oxygen circulates faster, and our sugars are broken down for energy.
We are now ready for the fight or flight response.
Anxiety is a 'High that people get when they are angry, they have gone into the fighting mode and are ready to fight, but it's normally over in a short period of time.
The longer a problem goes on the more it will drag you down.
Eventually you may go into what is called the Flight response, and this can cause you depression for awhile.
It may be that you feel bad at not being able to sort out the problem in the fashion you would have liked to.
We get tensed up and we have no outlet for this energy.
If it continues for any length of time we may feel a number of unpleasant symptoms happening to our body.
That's because we are not used to them.
It also happens because we are unable to get the relaxation of the brain that we need.
Your whole nervous system is playing you up and you have been feeling the nerves in your limbs tingling - some people describe it like an electric shock feeling.
It may be that you also feel the nerves in other parts of you body, that is common for people who are going through anxiety, depression, insomnia and other stress related illnesses.
In the section called 'Your brain and how it works' I explained that you brain is in control of your body. Your brain takes care of the body that it is attached to.
Your brain is in control of the body, and you are in control of your brain.
The brain controls your heartbeat, blood, liver, lungs, skin and all the other parts of the body through the use of the nervous system.
It's all automatic, but if the thought processes go wrong it can cause a lot of problems physically for the human body.
The brain constantly monitors and warns us through our nervous system of the cold, the heat and other things that can be dangerous for us.
We go in and out of the Fight and Flight response many times in our lives.
When we were younger we often felt that tingling feeling in our nerves at the end of the fingers, down the back of the legs, our feet, our neck and other parts of our bodies, it was a normal part of growing up.
We didn't give it much thought because we sorted the problem at the time and moved on.
Our bodies and nerves settled down again, and it was forgotten about.
Sometimes in life we might end up in a more stressful position, and we can feel our nerves all the time.
Some people coming off medication get this nerves tingling and it can become uncomfortable.
That is because they have not learned how to relax properly and they are concentrating on it.
The body is still in the Fight and Flight response, and because they are still in this response, their body has closed down and they are feeling these nerves all the time.
These feelings will disappear when the person becomes relaxed in the brain and settles down again.
Understand your brain, understand your body, and you will understand your nervous system.
In Relaxation and the road to cure I am going to tell you how the reverse your nerves.
Doing this will let you take control of your anxiety, depression, insomnia and other stress related illnesses.
This is the way our bodies should work, but sometimes we forget, because we don't know what is happening.
We panic and instead of reversing this response we add to it.
There is only one way of changing this, and that is by learning what is going on and taking control of these feelings in the nervous system by relaxing you brain.
Are the feelings in my nerves normal written by Andrew Murphy 21 February 2008
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