Trembling

Hello @shazibeat44 that seems common with many people with anxiety or a rush :( ... do you think it may help to check with a doctor also?

@shazibeat44 I do too, especially when in confrontational or tense situations. My therapist tells me it is caused by my trauma.

@shazibeat44

Are you worried what other people think about you when it happens? Understanding it is normal and is something everyone experiences might make you feel less anxious about it.

The anger trembles also used to happen when I was younger and had not yet gone through any trauma. "So mad I'm like, literally shaking" seems to be a common phrase with young people these days, so I guess somewhat normal?
Except when you use the word "alot," it makes me wonder if it might be to the point of having an effect on mobility/functionality... this would be where a doctor might need to step in to see what's up.

@shazibeat44

This is a normal physiological response to those emotional states. Physically shaking when in those extreme emotional states is very common. The issue is more, how often are you entering extreme emotional states like that? I've physically shook during times when, for example, I faced a physical fight with people bigger and stronger than me, or who had weapons or outnumbered me. That's very normal. I've occasionally been worked up enough to shake even without something quite so extreme. People who are in life-and-death situations shake all the time. But if this is happening to you like multiple times a day, in mundane situations, that means your body thinks you're in life-and-death situations when nothing that serious is going on. That's not so good.

Of course, some people are more responsive than others, some might have stronger emotional reactions to some things than others, there's a certain degree of variability here...but if it's this intense frequently, that's still kind of ultimately not great, and might be a sign of emotional dysregulation. Emotional dysregulation can be a symptom of trauma, but it doesn't only come from trauma. It's basically when you don't have the ability to regulate your emotions--kind of like the emotional version of having indigestion every time you eat something. The opposite of that is emotional regulation, which is when you can process and regulate your emotions as they come.

There are a lot of ways you can deal with this, some prescription medications might help make your emotions something more manageable for you to regulate. There are some coping mechanisms explored in various types of therapy, I think DBT talks more about dealing with difficult emotions than CBT or other common types of therapy. EMDR can also help process emotions from trauma.

This might not be relevant to you, but if you're dealing with this kind of physical overstimulation, avoid chemical stimulants as much as possible--this includes caffeine, adderall/amphetamines (unless you need those to function or something...) cocaine, meth, etc, as well as possibly some substances that sometimes work as stimulants in that way and sometimes don't, like nicotine, alcohol, and cannabis/marijuana, unless you're confident they aren't making your problems worse. Caffeine is the most common culprit there, it's ubiquitous, not stigmatized, cheap and easy to access, and has a pretty ragged stimulating high--the only stimulant more brutal for anxiety I can think of offhand is ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, but that's a lot less common to be supplementing with, unless you're taking OTC asthma or allergy meds for respiratory issues, or are taking ECA stacks for bodybuilding or something.