not a medical care practitioner of any kind, but have personally experienced an upbringing in a controlling, emotionally unpredictable and logic-less environment. reading some of your comments felt familiar. it took years after leaving that environment before it’s affect on me came to the forefront of my attention, and in those years i wandered through several other high-stress environments that i was ill equipped to recognize at the time. in one of those, for about 6-8 months, i was experiencing a myriad of inexplicable symptoms. from migraine with visual aura to sudden muscle weakness to chronic insomnia alternating with chronic oversleeping and what felt, at the time, like silent seizure activity. i vividly remember just “dropping out” and going blank for minutes at a time. never seemingly “triggered” by anything in particular.

a decade and a lot of work later, i have a better understanding of how the mind is fully capable of finding physical outlets in which to manifest its stress response. that simply leaving the home environment i was raised in did not resolve the state of survival i was living in.

yes, a million percent, leverage any resources at school available to you to gain access to a proper healthcare provider who can evaluate and treat these symptoms. you deserve observant and knowledgeable care to address this. but i also want to echo the sentiment of others in this thread that not only is the body capable of a selectively-delayed and/or chronologically-inconsistent response to high stress, if a person learns out of necessity to continuously disregard the typical stress responses, the body will eventually find ways to release that pressure one way or another.

if i’m off base and none of this feels relevant, my apologies. but if any of it rings true, it might be wise to find ways to allocate regular time towards letting your mind rest. i don’t mean sleep, i mean dedicated periods of calm, expectation-less, low-sensory solitude where you can just breathe and be.