Today I was disagreeing with my dad about something, and then he got very irritated and started screaming at me. We kept fighting back and forth but I didn't really yell back too much at all, or even raise my voice. After this incident I walked outside to cool down, it felt like there was a big tight bubble in my chest though. As I continued to walk I began to cry hysterically. I continued crying and I started to dry heave like I was about to puke. I probably dry heaved like 5 or 6 times but nothing came out.
This happened to me before a while back when i got really stressed out but I am completely baffled as to as to why it happened (I mean I know the stress caused it, but why would my body respond my trying to make me puke?!)
Does anyone have more information on this? I want to know why my body did this and just more general information on stress.
Thanks
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Stess can dump a whole suite of chemicals in your body, some of which are antagonistic to digestion and other things- your body has a gag reflex for survival reasons- the hormones and stress-induced chemical environment in your brain may have tricked you primitive brain into a fight-or-flight style-response, so your brain ordered a general dump-out of what's in you. You probably had rotten bowel movement in response to this fight, too, or you will in the next little while, anyhow.
It's all natural. Stress is stress, as far as the body is concerned- your hindbrain doesn't care if you're being chased by a bear or fighting with your father.
Dry Heaving Stress
I've been having dry heaving spells almost everyday now for over two months. Plus at the same time, I'm working a new job making pizza within a customer service realm. I notice in the past with my customer service experience, I was basically just doing one or another type of work and not dry heaving. Though now, I'm having to be overly creative with the pizzas, serve and help the customers and baking the pizzas all at once. Also trying to do my best to make my managers happy. Which I'm starting to wonder, the creativity, the hot atmosphere, the customer service and making my managers happy all at once may be causing me to have dry heaves almost daily with no other symptoms. Plus it's weird, I notice I'm dry heaving even on days which I'm off work. I'm thinking that all the work may be stressing my body out on a deep level? It's very weird, I don't even know half of the time that I'm stressing about anything though I struggle with anxiety.
Eddy that is a normal reaction. All of your emotions come to a head at once and it is very stressful.
Crying is normal. When it used to happen to me I knew fist were about to fly when I felt the tear welling up. You settled your anger in a good way by taking a time out.
anger flows through your blood. That's very bad for your health! You should start not arguing now. here's how to stop. when your arguing start asking dad what are we arguing about, why are we arguing,will it solve anything, and do we really want to argue? That will stop the arguing,later you can come to an agreement.
awww i'm sorry Maybe you should see a family therapist about this or maybe get checked out by a doctor.
when u get that upset, acids are released in your stomach, resulting in your body trying to get rid of them.