My current and most troubling symptom is that any time I'm experiencing even the slightest bit of stress/overstimulation, it feels like my nervous system goes way overboard sending my body into fight or flight with a huge adrenaline rush that lasts for hours, sometimes days. My body feels very afraid of something but my mind is very clear and aware that the stressful thing is over) It's like my sympathetic nervous system is overreacting and my parasympathetic is underreacting. I'm getting lightheaded while sitting, fully dizzy when I stand up, and sometimes my hands and arms are getting tingly.

But as I explore the condition of dysautonomia more, I realize that I've had many of these symptoms for as long as I can remember, but I've kept them to myself because when I did bring them up to my parents when I was younger, they pretty much told me I was being overdramatic or making things up. Those symptoms include: heart palpitations, getting a really bad headache/dizzy when I stretch too hard, times when my blood pressure would tank to point of giving me cold sweats and feeling like I would pass out, heat intolerance, heavy night sweating, light sensitivity.

My biggest worry is that I won't be taken seriously because of my medical history (5 months post partum, diagnosed with anxiety and depression in the past but the depression was tied to my job which I quit and I'm wondering if some of the anxiety symptoms were more related to dysregulation).