> I was just thinking today about what I do when I'm VERY nervous about something. I shiver like crazy. Seriously...like when I was at the DMV a few weeks ago to take my permit test (finally) I was shivering uncontrollably. I wasn't cold or anything; it's all nerves. Whenever I go to a doctor or dentist I get the same way. It's not like shivering when you're cold exactly. It's worse...I can literally feel my insides shivering and my teeth chatter a lot. I just wanted to know if I'm the only person here with a bizarre reaction to nerves.

I've had three "shiver reactions" that I can remember: Once, a kid on its way from the right over to the left side of the road I was driving on suddenly turned around and went back. I was actually thinking of it right then, that I couldn't trust the child in maintaining directions, so I was prepared and hit the brakes instantly and stopped in good distance. But afterwards, I got the shivers.

That was several years ago. The other two incidents happened last year. The first was when I finally realized that I had to and wanted to break up with my girlfriend. I had been trying to ignore it for the longest time, putting off the hard decision. But when I finally decided, my hands were shaking.

The last time was after we had broken up. My ex girlfriend had been at home with her parents, but returned a day or two earlier than I expected, so I was totally unprepared. Then she really took out a lot of anger at me, yelling at me for doing stuff I thought was just favors I'd done while she was away (we lived in separate rooms together with 3 other guys, and most of us were moving out at that time, so I, had among other things, been sorting some of our stuff and had put her things from the living room into her room). I'm not the person to argue and yell back, especially not if I feel the person yelling at me is hurt because of me (although inadvertantly), so I said nothing much. Then she left, and my whole body started shivering. I had to sit in my bed with blankets around me, but it didn't help much. I phoned a friend (who also had been with us when we broke up), just to tell someone, just to have someone to talk to, and that helped a bit.

But you're right: It's much worse than shivering from cold...

Trav"hope it'll be long until next time"holt