Huh. With me it’s the opposite – I get excited. At stressful periods at work, my boss has to tell me constantly not to get all worked up about small disagreements, or even just discussions of strategy (this is R&D), with co-workers.
And I start pigging out on junk, too 
I sleep. During high stress times I come home from work and want to go straight to sleep.
My right eyes twitches.
I don’t think I get stressed. I’m about the most apathetic persoin in the world. I experience neither highs nor lows.
[straight line] What’s it like? [/straight line]
My excema breaks out on my left hand. I also swallow small amounts of air & make tiny little burps – lots, in rapid sucession. Don’t know why this makes me feel better, but it does.
Yes, but you do change your answering machine message.
Stress? :dubious:
Yes, but you do change your answering machine message. 
I get eyelid tics, but my eleven-year-old son is getting whole twitches of the eyeball lately. He just started junior high, and in a new school at that, so I can’t really blame him, but it’s severe enough that his teachers have noticed and we’ve taken him to the doctor. It sort of looks like he’s being a smart-ass, but it’s involuntary. He used to do it when he was much younger too. And he’s back to having night-terrors, which I’d hoped he had outgrown. Poor kid.
I used to get warts on my fingers in times of psychological stress. Probably because I dated a lot of toads.
Well, I’m finding out I have a thyroid problem mixed with Adrenal Fatigue. It can worsen with stress, causing:
All this can be treated with diet, religious exercise, and stress-reduction. When these symptoms kick in (like right now I’m in an active stage), I tend to start scratching all my skin and picking at every little imperfection until I’ve scarred myself and I’ll start pulling out my hair and eyebrows. My biggest issue is the IBS, I’ve had to go to the emergency room so many times to get chest x-rays from pain. They always turn up that my bowels are full to the max and it’s pressure. But the funny thing is is that I deal with all my stress internally which causes me to do all these self-mutilating things. Most people who don’t know me very well will say I’m calm and level-headed, I just don’t like putting my issues on others because I know I’m a nervous wreak all the time. It’s a struggle, but I deal with it one day at a time.
I compusively rip the corners off of paper.
I have learned to keep scap paper around for this purpose.
Yeah, before my grandma died she would always laugh when she caught me twirling my hair, because apparently I’ve been doing it since I was very little. She used to think it was hilarious. 
I think it’s something I did as a child, then stopped (possibly in favor of biting my nails), but then started again sometime around college (when I stopped biting my nails). I think that if I want to break this habit I’m going to have to resort to the extreme measure of cutting my hair short. I can’t stand the thought of myself with short hair, though, so for the time being I keep twirling…
I really miss my grandma.
Funny how all humans experience stress, but we all manifest/deal with it differently … except for the junk food thing. I’ve yet to hear of anyone who comforts themselves with carrots and radishes when stressed. 
Dutch licorice is salty, some of it is very salty.
I do that too. Right now, the inside of my lower lip is swollen and hurts like hell.
I also nibble at the skin around my fingernails. I don’t bite my nails, because they’re pretty and I want to keep them long. But I tear off little bits of skin around my nails, sometimes drawing blood.
Why do my stress signals involve me eating myself? I should just twirl my hair like a normal girl.
Wow! I looked it up and I’m amazed. Thanks for the info!
My heart skips every fifth or seventh beat while trying to relax after work (after a day of work in periods of stress at work). Especially if I had pizza for dinner.
(Now here’s a strange phenomena: If I think about work while trying to sleep during these periods, the heart beat is cool; on the other hand, if I think about something else, pleasant things, while trying to sleep, the heart begins to beat irregularly.)
I grind my teeth when I sleep. And sometimes I can’t get to sleep for a looong time.
An after-effect from stress for me is that I’ll laugh hysterically for 10-15 minutes if someone says something that strikes me as amusing (even if it’s not that funny). When that happens, I can’t stop laughing. I usually have to sit down on the floor because it hurts my stomach.
Thanks for reminding me. I had TMJ surgery last year, almost exactly. Years of grinding and clenching. I wear a night guard now.
Is it curly? I of course am against cutting hair…mine is pretty long and I’m in the process of growing it longer! My aunt still laughs at me when she sees me doing it.
I miss mine, too.