#somatitization

I don't have anxiety btw. It's a somatitization thing. I Hate It. Feels like something cold pressed against my sternum from the inside mixed with an empty gnawing, tugging, twisting feeling. Also like when you eat to fast and the food gets stuck in your esophagus and it won't go down until you drink something.

But it's not a fully physical feeling, its like when you're heartbroken and it makes your chest hurt, it doesn't feel like a cut or a punch but it's like distracting, stinging nerves buzzing feeling like anxiousness sort of.

Sometimes the heart and gut are each called the "second brain" because of how many nerves they have and how much they respond to our emotions, especially the heart because of all the electrical signals it uses to pump blood and it's one of the organs that we've had longest evolutionarily, so it has a strong connection with the brain in some ways science is still trying to understand.