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Hey guys.. I consider myself to be a healthy young adult. I am 20 years old, my weight is fine, and all that regular stuff. I haven't had problems with anything really, I play sports just fine, I get along with mostly everybody. I rarely argue, and its mostly with my brother.

Anyway, I recently got a picture phone, and I started to notice.. I shake. My hands shake (not too much, but still uncontrollably..).. I don't wish for people to notice and I try to hide it which makes it shake even more. It's very little shaking.. But it gets to me..

I haven't changed anything in my lifestyle.. I go to college and I have a job (which requires lots of typing). I drink alcohol twice or three times a month but rarely get drunk (maybe once a month i'll get really buzzed, aka 4-8 beers). I don't smoke cigarettes (don't even know how to spell it). I do smoke marijuana maybe once a month. I used to be into it a lot more (aka once a day).

Anyway.. What do you guys think? Im really not into pills although I have tried x twice. (what I also meant by this, is im not going to take pills to take care of the shaking.)

tia
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replied January 17th, 2005
Thanks for the reply. The thing is I worry a lot about things, particularly about people around me and what they might be thinking. I do think in a way it's a bad thing (although I don't let that bother me, I just brush it off, its an automatic thing for me to do..) but I have no clue if thats getting me stressed out. I do know that I have no freaking clue exactly when this started happening.. Im just freaked out about it, well I don't think its very natural..

I might take some vitamins see how that go.. As far as working out, im just starting now actually (before I even read your tip).. So i'll see how that goes.

Like, if I look at my hands now, resting on the keyboard tray, they just !**@! shake.. Like my fingers do... My pinky twitches a litle.. Then goes my thumb.. Then my index... It all just makes me wanna smash something..

This never .. Never happened before.. I'm really starting to think it's from taking x (ecstacy... Stupid drug really). But anyways I know this guy who takes them on a regular basis.. And well he seems ok.. (hasn't changed from when he never took them..) well.. We all have our days.. (and months.. And years) maybe im just going through a lot right now and im not even realizing it.. With school starting today (and me not signing up for classes yet), and my cell phone bill due tomorrow (and me not having the money for it) well.. Other stuff too (gf stuff, starting a new job.. Taking care of business.. Etc).. Maybe my head will just explode!

I tried to take a picture of my gf's face the other day with my picture phone and I started shaking as I was bringin the camera up to her face.. And she noticed and she thought I was nervous and I wasn't at all.. And it just made the moment suck ass!!

Anyways take care.. Im going to bed..
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replied January 18th, 2005
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Hello desertegle,

sometime these shakes arise when we are overproducing adrenaline. If so, then you could possibly have a hypoglycemic condition, that can be easily treated by going on a hypoglycemic diet. This is basically a sugar-free diet, because people with hypoglycemia are not handling sugar too well. This is due to insulin resistance interfering with a proper supply of biological energy to the brain. When the brain senses an energy starvation it will send stress hormones (adrenaline) into the system so as to raise blood sugar levels again.

Look up “what is hypoglycemia?” at our web site.

I also noticed that you tend to get worried about what people think of you. This seems to be due to a negative self-image of which you may not be aware. We tend to believe that other people think of us in the same way as we judge ourselves. Thus if we have a negative self-image we tend to 'project' this onto other people and we feel uncomfortable.

There is an easy way of getting rid of a negative self-image by studying our self-help psychotherapy course (free of charge). It teaches you how you can find your hang-ups (weak spots in your self-image) and how to get rid of these ideas by mental exercises, regardless of where these ideas come from.

I hope I have been helpful.
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replied January 18th, 2005
jurplesman wrote:



i also noticed that you tend to get worried about what people think of you. This seems to be due to a negative self-image of which you may not be aware. We tend to believe that other people think of us in the same way as we judge ourselves. Thus if we have a negative self-image we tend to 'project' this onto other people and we feel uncomfortable.


I hope I have been helpful.


the thing is I don't get worried about what they think of me, I just tend to think about what they're thinking (in general, not only about me but about what's going on around them). I sometimes find myself laughin at these things. I do this automatically, and it's not all the time. Let's say in normal everyday life it doesn't happen, but when I hang out with a group of friends (new or old) I find myself thinking about what they're thinking (kinda like studying them) and sometimes I pretty much know what's gonna come out of they're mouth (it's a bad habit you could say.. I think I picked it up from smoking).

But not to say I don't think about what others think of me either you know.. I think a lot of people do.. Just some more then others. The thing is I pretty much don't worry about anything.. That's why im worried (lol) this shaking is uncontrollable.. Because if I actually worried about things, and then I noticed the shaking, then I would think I could change it or fix it..

That was confusing.. Well im off to work, wish I could keep writing. I will though look into "hypoglycemia". Thanks for the reply.

De
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replied January 18th, 2005
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Hello desertegle,

well if you don�t worry what othert people think of you, you don�t have any problems.

Then the shaking can only be explained in terms of a hypoglycemic condition, that can be treated by going on a hypoglycemic diet.


Jurriaan plesman
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