Lets see... why am I afraid of heights? Well, unlike my social anxiety it's not a debilitating, paralyzing fear. I can climb up on top of my house with ease. But if, say, I'm on a skyscraper or a really tall rollercoaster, I get a little bit dizzy.. and I haven't always been that way.. the dizziness has some along fairly recently.

My body's warmth: Yes, cold legs and very cold feet. My groin is a bit cold as well. My hands and arms feel a bit cool at times, but nothing like my legs and feet. My torso seems to be warm and my head is usually pretty hot.

What were your parents like?

My mom has always been really nervous. She told me that she had social anxiety when she was younger. the only health problem she has (other than nervousness) is hypothyroidism. In fact, my sister, 3 aunts, 2 uncles and my grandma all have hypothyroidism. I've had an extensive thyroid analysis (including an antibodies test) and all have come back negative. My doctor recently started me out on 1/2 grain of Armour thyroid after diagnosing me with subclinical hypothyroidism and it seems to help a bit with my constipation and headaches. But I'm really not sure if it is what I need, or if the thyroid is only extinguishing some of my symptoms.
My dad is really laid back. Ocassionally, though, he would wake up on the wrong side of the bed and become extremely irritable. Actually, I shouldn't say occasionally.. it was more like 3 or 4 days per week. Every other time, though, he is laid back and in a humorous mood.

Had a stye a couple of years ago that lasted for, it seemed like, over a month. I have recourring eye ticks... usually my right eye twitches.

When I talk to myself, I usually am having an imaginary converstion of some sort. I'm always fantasizing about being in a certain situation where I'm saying alot of really witty things, etc..

Music, dancing and thunderstorms...

Well music I love. I love classical music as well as some more modern tunes.. especially funk. Seceretly (well, not so secret now) I dance around in my house all of the time. I've never learned how to dance, and I'm a goofy white boy with no rythm, so I've never danced in public. Thunderstorms I love! There's just something about being indoors while it's thundering and raining outside.. and I love the rain, and I especially notice that I enjoy cloudy, dark days.

No warts.

I looove onions and garlic. I'd eat them with just about anything.

No, people haven;t ever told me that about my sentences. I'm a really loud talker (and talk with my throat, not my diaphragm.)

I've been constipated for about 4 or 5 months now. Before that, I drank alot of coffee, which kept me regular. But I gave the coffee up because hot liquids seemed to make my anxiety worse, as well as it being too stimulating.

No cancer, with the exception of my great uncle who worked in a CO filled autoshop for 40 years and smoked 2.5 packs of cigarrettes every day.

Consolation definately aggrivates.

I'm very sloppy and unorganized. My handwriting looks like Kindergarden doodling. I've been that way from the time I was born. My mom used to say that when I was a toddler I got more food on the floor and on my face than I did in my mouth. And I had a problem potty training. It never really bothered me to run around wearing a dirty diaper.

I really like travel. I always love going to new places and getting away. I can get carsick and do experience jetlag, but none of those things stop me.

My steak.. I don't like fat (I'll always cut it off) but I like there to be fat on it when it's cooked.. It gives the steak a better, richer flavor.

I can be a sucker for chocolate. Sometimes I do crave it, but it always makes me feel nauseous after eating it.

And the time I have the lowest energy is definately around 3 or 4 P.M. If I can do it, I usually take a nap about this time.

Again, thanks alot to Snoopy and everyone else!

[ 02 May 2002, 07:24: Message edited by: Thomas McMahon ]