Compensating (symptoms)
A phenomenon I have is that whenever I’m around people who know of my condition, or in a situation where I’m at a doctors or requiring special assistance for it, I often find that my symptoms randomly flare up almost as if I’m trying to prove to others it exists
I often find that even if I feel fine and am functioning normally, my body decides to show physical symptoms like limping for example to almost prove to people around me that I am in fact still disabled and do have something wrong and that I’m not faking it
I’ve always assumed it’s imposter syndrome, I’ve been diagnosed for over a year and have been dealing with it for almost 4, yet I always think I’m faking it or don’t have it despite the impact it has on me
I was wondering if anyone else deal with this subconscious compensating and what it even is