Hi all,

For anyone here who is knowledgeable about Freud/psychology, I have a question for you about a personal issue of mine.

There have been times in the past where, when I perceive myself as having "done something wrong", so to speak, my body will feel... almost... paralyzed, if that makes sense. I feel almost emotionally hurt/injured first, and unnaturally tense in a way that can't be easily described, as if my brain has almost "shut down" my nervous system; it sounds extreme but that's exactly what appears to be happening... This "bad thing" could be something as simple as, for example, buying a drink at a bar but being slightly short on cash, or someone "telling me off", just some minor thing like that. This feeling is also occasionally accompanied by intense anger. Weird huh.

I started reading about Freud's theory on the id, ego, and superego. Supposedly, the superego is the part of the psyche which controls moral/social principles, and in individual who have an overdeveloped superego (i.e. me; I've been diagnosed with "mild "OCPD before), this controls most of their psyche. When a certain 'strict' moral principle is violated, the superego punishes the person with shame or guilt, however, in some cases it might punish them with psychosomatic symptoms, like the one I described earlier.

With all that said, am I right in my assumption that this may be the case with me? It's really starting to get me down and I don't know if therapy would help with this. Could it be something else? Does anyone here relate to this bizarre issue that I have?