Have you ever been physically sick when given bad news?

[Bretrick]

So many shows/movies I watch have people being sick with the advent of bad news.
Really foreign to me

 

[Pinky]

Yes. I get physically upset. I will spare the details.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Once... traumatized when I was 21. Enough said.

 

[papa tiger]

Having worked Material Handling Maintenance Career for Industrial Factories I got used to constant bad news.
Then after 25 years, I said to the Boss, Give the Overtime to the young, they need it. He said he felt the same way too.

Its sort of like carrying a heavy load of stuff. Shrug it off is my thought. .... ....

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

When my dad died I was 33 and I got a physical pain inside that went beyond any place in my body I'd ever known existed.

 

[hollydolly]

Yes... ... bad news , goes straight to my stomach...

 

[hollydolly]

When the Movie Alien was first released in the cinemas in 1979....I was working in a 3 screen cinema.. the big releases came to cinema 1 which held 1000 people.. and we'd get a full house every night of the week for however long we were showing the film..


Before Alien got to us the reviews were full of the horror stories how people were vomitting in the aisle, how pregnant women were going into labour at the shock... so we were dreading this...

We had it for 6 weeks.. 42 x 1000 people... and not one single person was sick.. or any pregnant women went into labour.

 

[Knight]

So many shows/movies I watch have people being sick with the advent of bad news.
Really foreign to me

Movies & T V shows that show the reaction of screaming or puking over something tragic seems a little over the top to me. Fortunately I've not had to witness the kind of events they portray in movies or on T V.

 

[Naturally]

In my late 20's, a girl I cared greatly about, up and out of the blue dumped me with no chance of reconciliation.
After a couple of hours gnashing it over, I became physically ill and threw up once. Only time anything like that ever happened.

 

[DebraMae]

When I am REALLY, REALLY upset I feel nausea. Fortunately though, I've never actually thrown up because of it.

 

[Llynn]

Yes, when my Son died. I still get sick when I think about it.

 

[jujube]

As the paramedics were working on my husband, I KNEW he was dead, just knew it. I started coughing and couldn't stop. I was whooping so hard I thought I was going to tear my throat out and one of the paramedics came over and started tending to me. I waved him off and someone brought me a glass of water. I eventually stopped coughing. I have no idea why the coughing started unless I had thrown up into my throat.

 

[squatting dog]

Yes, when my Son died. I still get sick when I think about it.

Same here when my daughter died.
edit... that was the only time in my life.

 

[Teacher Terry]

When my favorite grandma died I was 25 and got a massive migraine at the funeral. I had never had one before.

 

[Eupher]

No. I definitely am not pleased or otherwise positively impacted by bad news, but I do not ever become physically sick.

 

[Imogene]

Yes, when my Son died. I still get sick when I think about it.

Me as well———

 

[papa tiger]

I would, most likely become ill, if suddenly put in a real Samauri type event.

 

[officerripley]

Yes. I get physically upset. I will spare the details.

Same here. Since the day i was born (born into disfunctional family, can't imagine what it'd be like to not be at least worried all the time).

 

[Rae]

I feel a shock and then come to grips with the news. It happens with health issues and news of family deaths. I worry more about my husband as he copes with health issues.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

My long-life reaction to very bad news is that I get intense immediate
anxiety, then further physical symptoms arise that are difficult. I don't
like bad news, but have had a lifetime full of it in one way or another.

 

[officerripley]

My long-life reaction to very bad news is that I get intense immediate
anxiety, then further physical symptoms arise that are difficult. I don't
like bad news, but have had a lifetime full of it in one way or another.

Same here.

 

[StarSong]

I very nearly passed out when seeing my son's dislocated shoulder being popped back into place. Had to lie down on the floor. Same thing happened when they wheeled my mother back into her room after broken hip surgery. She looked like death warmed over.

My BP plummets from emotional shocks.

 

[Pepper]

Worse than physically sick, like it was a miracle I didn't die too.