LGBT: I just got diagnosed with a severe case of Brokenheart syndrome or lovesickness?
So you see I googled everything I could to explain why was getting so sick and it kept coming back to the same thing, a broken heart. I thought… fucking bullshit, thats not a real cause of anything…
But as it turns out, my psychologist says its not a joke or poetic word. It’s a real mental illness that can cause severe health problems as it is doing already. Apparently my great aunty died of it when her husband passed away…
Mental Symptoms -
# Mania: I have extreme highs when nothing can get me down, not even the worst things in the world
# Depression: I cry everynight almost now
# Insomnia: I don’t sleep to well and constantly wake up in the middle of the night, and I can’t sleep at all unless Teddy is in my arms
# Loss of concentration: I fade in and out in TAFE classes doing a thousand yard stare which apparently is another symptom
# OCD: I must be wearing my necklace and bracelet that Josh gave to me otherwise I break down completely. When my teacher took the bracelet off me I had a small anxiety attack.
# Suicidal thoughts (in extreme cases): Yes I have had them, but they pass very quickly with my drugs. Like I think of the option but it doesn’t interest me.
# The thousand-yard stare: Already said I have them.
# A feeling of complete emptiness: Like theres nothing really to life at all… its just a boring ride… but I use to have those feelings long before I met Josh.
Physical Symptoms -
# Upset stomach: I started crying last night at Youth Group and ran to the bathroom to throw up
Change in appetite: When this all first started I didn’t eat for 4 days straight and still barely eat now
# Dizziness and confusion: That time I ran all the way to my friends house. The confusion was when I couldn’t remember a thing of where I was or what happened.
# Comatose: When I reached my friends house and couldn’t say anything but Josh’s name.
# A perceived tightness of the chest, similar to an anxiety attack: I find that when I have an anxiety attack I can’t breath and begin to pant. Like when my teacher took my bracelet off me.
# Anger: When my mother brought his name up in the car and I screamed at her not to mention his name
# Nostalgia
# Apathy (loss of interest): I was playing a game the other week at Inspire when I just completely lost interest and sat out, it happens even at TAFE while we are doing something or talking about something really interesting I just give up and don’t put much effort to it anymore.
# Feelings of loneliness: I feel it all the time and surround myself with friends to put that feeling off.
# Loss of self-respect and/or self-esteem: I’ve lost great respect for myself, I said and I promised him I would help him. But I haven’t… That’s something I worry about frequantly
# In extreme cases, death: No, that hasn’t happened… lol
My doctor said that I’m pushing the boundary to being hospitalized, he’s looking at another drug for me to go on seeing as thought my anti-depressants are only doing half the job.
I never thought Love Sick was actually a real thing, let alone deadly…
So tell me…
Ever heard of something like this or no someone whose been through this… I couldn’t help but laugh even when my doctor said it was no laughing matter and I’m a severe case… lol, no I know why they say love kills…
- Widgi Creek Golf Club, Bend, OR Widgi Creek Golf Club is located in: Bend, OR Phone: (541) 382-4449 Website: http://www.widgi.com/golf/hours.cfm Course History: This is a great place to stop if you will be in the Bend, OR area. We fell in love with this course and can't wait to go back. It is extremely beautiful and......
- Alternative Income Streams Progress - Early December This is the fourth installment tracking of my alternative income streams plan and progress. This month I'm showing very good progress in creating more money outside my job. I had at least 6 Prosper.com loans get verified in the last two weeks and this blog has been getting a little......
- Monday Lotto AU 1million The last 3 draws have been pretty amazing with the smallest number in each draw being 19 20 21, and most numbers coming from the top of the field (big). The Saliu ANY Filters have been large and point to a drop, ie: all 6 numbers for 1st prize will......
- State Default Rates -- A Publishable Application of the RateLadder ListingKey In the past I have talked about my technique for adding a ListingKey to the Loan table of the Prosper.com data export. While I had successfully added the key several weeks ago I hadn't found an application of the key that I could publish until recently.  A fellow Princetonian and prosper lender......
- Powerball AU 40 million Tonight's Powerball Jackpot of AU $40 million is the biggest ever offered on Australian Powerball. If one person wins the entire $40 million Jackpot, they will become Australia’s largest ever lottery winner! It is good value to have a go today, even if they are hard to pick. The Saliu......
Tags: anx, anxiety attack, appetite, aunty, broken heart, complete emptiness, confusion, dizziness, extreme cases, extreme highs, health problems, insomnia, loss of concentration, mental illness, poetic word, psychologist, suicidal thoughts, upset stomach, world depression, youth group
So is that what I have, interesting, lol…It would appear as though I experience many of these symptoms, not nearly as severe…but I do think I should see someone about it…and I do know of someone who has dies of love sickness, it would be my step-moms grandparents, her grandma died, and then a week later her grandpa died, she told me that he always said if she died he would have nothing to live for anymore, and then she said, He wasn’t lying.
When my first love broke up with me I had quite a few of those symptoms. They lasted for a while too. After a little while, it helps to talk to someone about how you’re feeling. After 3 months and 3 days, I explained how I had been feeling to the person who broke up with me. She sympathetically listened and understood. I felt so much better afterwards. I still feel sad now and then, but I’m pretty much healed now. At least, a lot more than I was.
Yeah when she broke up with me, I would randomly break down, I was depressed, I zoned out all the time and hardly remembered anything at all, I cried most night, it was sometimes physically painful. I would actually wrap my arms around my chest to keep myself from feeling like I was going to fall apart.
If you ever need anyone to talk to about this stuff, email me.
yeah I definitely went thru that…still am going thru it. stupid *****, i wish could **** her the **** up! i hate her!
*ahem, excuse me.* *adjusts bunny ears*
Anyway. So. I’ve definitely been thru the "thousand yard stare" and the mania. One day I was sooo happy, and then the next day I was just…in complete HELL. I’ve been thru all the symptoms except comatose. I had anxiety attacks, I randomly started sobbing in the middle of a test (an easy one too but I could hardly think). I can only sleep when I hold Lucas, my stuffed Dr. Seuss character. Depression is a given. I started thinking about her while I washed my hair one day and I got dizzy, light headed and shaky. Even the THOUGHT of her brings tears to my eyes. My short term memory gets effed up when I think about it too much.
Feel better…this sucks monkey balls, I know. I don’t know you but I’ll be thinking of you and I hope you get better, I really do. I wish you didn’t have to go through this and I hope you never experience it ever again in your life because it’s cruel.
Well, the symptoms of Broken heart Syndrome mimic cardiac arrest, so I don’t think that is what you’ve got or you’d be describing different symptoms. I can buy severe lovesickness. I’m glad you’re seeing a doctor, especially if this has been going on for awhile. Mental Symptom Number six always makes me a bit nervous. I’ve not known anyone who’s been through this, but I’m glad there is a cure.
um….no i don’t and so far haven’t met some one with this problem but i do believe that it is real and only some one truly in love could have
Anti-depressants….for a heart that’s being broken
my only advice to cure such syndromes is to find the root of the cause and in this case josh and never leave his side ….sorry that’s all i got
still hoping every thing works out……
You poor thing, it sounds awful!
I’ve never been through that, and I don’t know anybody who has.