Here are some I've actually told to doctors, and others that I should mention to them:

1. Someone trying to take off the end of my big toe with a can opener.

2. Being hit by lightning. In multiple body parts in rapid sequence.

3. Sensation of splinters under the skin, but no foreign object present to cause this feeling.

4. Sensation of having walked through a cobweb, but nothing is actually touching my skin. This generally progresses to feeling as though spiders are crawling on me.

5. When I first step into the heated pool for exercise, my hands and feet burn as though I'd stuck them in a George Foreman grill (which heats on two sides simultaneously).

6. Heaviness in my chest akin to an elephant sitting on it.

7. Awkwardness of movement as though I were a marionette and someone I couldn't see was the puppeteer.

8. Oncoming headlights when I'm driving at night produce stabbing pain in my eyes like ice picks.

9. Nightmares about demons ripping apart my body only to awake and discover that the dream was fake but the pain sensation was real.

10. Fatigue that is actually physically painful, as though someone had come up to me and smacked my brain with a sledgehammer.

Well, THAT was cathartic.

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