Changes when you get sick

[Avengardh]

I know most of us have gotten sick on our lifetimes, how do you change? Are your moods worse? Do you get more critical of others? Or are you just more "happy"?

I am sick right now and I got a really weird fever yesterday in the early-morning, now I feel pretty J-ish, not really cranky, just very very critical of others, sounds familiar??

~*Aven*~

[int]

Just don't make me talk and everything's OK.

[EternalCynic]

I like to be alone when I'm sick so that I may take care of myself.. of course that's not unusual.. but yes, I get a little more critical and picky.

[SensEye]

I don't fathom how one could be more "happy". Maybe I am missing your meaning.

When I am sick the physical discomfort be it stuffy sinuses, coughing, fatigue or what have you is annoying so it certainly does not improve my mood. I don't get cranky so much as I am simply too miserable to be very cheerful.

[Avengardh]

I don't fathom how one could be more "happy". Maybe I am missing your meaning.

When I am sick the physical discomfort be it stuffy sinuses, coughing, fatigue or what have you is annoying so it certainly does not improve my mood. I don't get cranky so much as I am simply too miserable to be very cheerful.

Happy as in high-happy, I know people who look and act doped when sick.

~*Aven*~

[Laeskis]

I get sick frequently...my blood sugar gets high and I am a different person. My moods turn black and gloomy, the world turns grey (figurative sense) I get highly irritated with people and I can't concentrate. The only problem with not concentrating is that I keep trying to, and all of the above conditions become inflamed. I would say I get critical of others, but that's not exactly true...I just take on a very very bad view of others. There's not much mind behind it; so it isn't exactly being critical.
That's a lot of words to say that it sucks.

[CosmicDust]

I tend to get even more lazy/drowsy/unmotivated than usual.

[BritainOphira]

When I'm sick I refuse to do anything above what I have to (as in breathing and blinking). I act really childish, but it never fails that I'm in a horrible mood and high on meds. (I don't take medicine until I absolutely have to, then I forget how much I've taken or what the dose is even supposed to be, so I take more, then I forget again, and again, and so the cycle continues.) Usually I wind up sleeping way too much, playing the pity card, piling on as many layers as I can get away with, and mumbling incoherently.

[cloakable]

Unless my symptoms get *really* serious, I tend to stick them I 'Cloakable's pile of perpetual ignorage'. I'm good at that.

(G33K points to whovever can identify where I got my inspiration for 'Cloakable's pile of perpetual ignorage' from.)

[libertarianjim]

My moods don't usually change, but I'm usually very fatigued and groggy if I get the flu.

Weirdly, however, BEFORE getting sick, I've felt the uncontrollable urge to listen to Pat Travers' "Boom Boom Out Go The Lights."

[INTrPosr]

Thank God that I have a reasonably good immune system. INTPs are so independent that they hate being in a mode of even thinking of having to depend on someone. When I am sick, it is usually a result of too much extraverting, wherein my immune system drops. I can usually bounce back within a reasonable time period.

I recall three summers ago, cutting my interior leg with a chain saw, requiring over forty stitches and staples. My wife worked, so she put my daughter (at the time she was 11 or 12) in charge of watching after me. I could sense my daughter's anguish in having to keep an eye on me. At some point, she was attempting to help me and became very upset, blurting out, "You are so stubborn!" :D Poor thing, I should have just allowed her to help me.

[ohnoaninfp]

When I get sick I get really tired and I don't want to be bothered when I am trying to sleep. I don't want to really do anything except relax and try to feel better. I had oral surgery done once. As I was recuperating from the surgrery, my dear darling little sister kept calling me sickypo, That pissed me off so much, At least my brother was nice to me. He actually played games with me to keep me company, something he never does! Also I got all the cream soda I wanted. :cheers:

[Vagabond]

When I have the flu, I just want someone to bring me a glass of water or something and then leave me alone. I am not more grumpy than the usual, but I feel more hopeless whenever people have this urge to pamper me. Probably because I have too low energy to tell them off.