Not able to understand my mystery mental illness

I have a very weird bad habit of hating to wear full sleeves, full pants and sweaters at home during winters. I do wear winter clothes outside. At home, it is necessary to wear warm clothes like sweater, full sleeves and full pants. I always like to wear half shirt and half pant even in this winter season. Not wearing warm clothes will increase my chances of catching cold, asthma and pneumonia. We don't have heating system at home as we don't experience snowfall here. Wearing just half shirt and half pant is very dangerous. I have just irrational hatred for warm clothes. Maximum temp is around 24°C. Minimum temp is around 5-7°C. My home is made of cement. If I keep on wearing half shirt and half pant, I will be in danger. As long as minimum temp is above 15°C, wearing half shirt and half pant is tolerable. I am not able to get rid of my mental illness. My parents often tell me that I am putting my health in big danger.

Hello, well now your problem is rather interesting. you have me sufficiently intrigued. I'm no Doctor. Just a guess though JETAE. Could it stem from a feeling of being 'restricted'? An inner sense that your 'freedom is limited'? You have logic. You realise that outside it is crucial that you wear sensible winter clothing to protect from the bitter cold and threat of illness. So you don't really desire to become ill. Inside however is different to you. It presents a challenge. You know that you need to dress appropriately indoors but you opt to feel less heavy (there is the clue), you have a need to feel (lighter). Who or what is repressing you? I suspect you know? As a little girl (from a very dysfunctional & troubled home) I'd watch my Mother scrub continuously, cleaning 24/7 even vacuuming at 3am. She never stopped. She was robotic. It was a 'have to' for her! She simply couldn't relax. POSITIVELY EVERYTHING WITHIN THE WALLS OF HER HOME HAD TO APPEAR PERFECT! Mats had to be straight. Bed quilts even on both sides. Paranoid to others. It was like she believed that if everything appeared to visitors and the outside world to be in order well then she wasn't failing. I soon grew to realise that if you are this obsessed about cleaning up all aspects of your life...well then somewhere along the way somebody really MESSED IT UP! Her way of rebalancing those uneven scales. Her coping mechanism. To me it is sounding like your problem isn't just about 'discomfort' from the clothing itself. It doesn't sound about a fear of weight on your chest such as a heavy jumper preventing your clear breathing. It sounds more like a mental belief. If things are too tight, too restrictive then perhaps you become nervous? What do you think? After all it is about you. You matter. This isn't silly. This is very real to you. We all have idiosyncrasies and fears. Those that say 'well I don't' are clearly liars. At best hope this is some food for thought JETAE.

PS In the meantime whilst you sort your mind out for heavens sake put some warm clothes on you silly bugger or else you just might freeze off those fun bits and then want them back some day HUG FOR CHRISTMAS

PSS that's an especially WARM HUG! To prevent the chills from getting in your bones LOL

Hey again, Jetae, "I have a very weird bad habit of hating to wear full sleeves, full pants and sweaters at home during winters." Snap! Plus my son's the same (he's visiting at the mo)...He, because he's 'young' so tends to feel neither the cold or heat (which at his age, I was like). Me, nowadays - now that I'm older and do feel extremes of temperatures - because I like the central heating set to comfortably Tropical so's I can wander freely about in my pants or just a kikoy (bar when I've got guests, obviously lol). To your extent, it's an Aspie trait. Have you tried the aQ Test on Wired.com (if it's ready?...was being refurbished)? You must be a GenZ. I've noticed a heck of a lot of your generation are/include (put very simply) a fabulous blend/balance of Aspie and (Friendly-Healthy) Psycho traits (emphasis on traits). Neither Asperger's or your mere Aspie quirk are a sign of mental illness, though. They're the sign of an evolutionary shunt in actual fact. You guys are especially stark 'automatic upgrades' on your parents' and their parents' generations' intelligence and capabilities etc. in terms of both iQ + eQ.... half-shark, half-fluffy-bunnies - or any ratio, depending on what any situation actually demands. The only thing you guys lack (which is merely down to your still-fresh positions on your life paths thus natural for your age) is your full quotient of Self-Belief/Confidence,...but that'll keep coming in in the next few years (and then another burst when you're c. 30). Check it out, see how you overall score? There are other sites offering the same (significant) indicator test now as well. Hope any of that made sense? I reckon you'll just be on the Eccentric part of the scale (sat right on the dividing line between NT and where ASD begins), between 16 and 24.

Here you go: https://www.wired.com/2001/12/aqtest/ https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient

I got stomach upset few days back due to feelng cold. I experienced symptoms like vomitting, stomach cramps and low appetite. I was keen to wearing sweaters at home during my illness. For last few days, my stomach is okay. Now I have again started to neglect my problem by not wearing sweaters again. I wear only in early morning. Today, it rained a little bit around 7am. As f now (10.30 am), it's 18°C outside but moist and cloudy. It's chilly but still I am wearing a half shirt and full sleeve pant. I am again ignoring myself.

"I was keen to wearing sweaters at home during my illness. " Survival instinct overriding need for comfort, I imagine, as it's when your core body temperature drops that the bugs get past your ear, nose & throat (and eyeball) Troops. Your body temperature is meant to be too hot for them, normally. When it's just tepid because you're not keeping your abdomen, chest and throat warm, then - they LIKE damp and merely tepid...perfect conditions for getting the better of your white blood cell frontline soldiers and making it all the way down your oesophagus and into your stomach (whose acid may be no match for them, particularly as the invading army would have replicated themselves X-fold during their journey (covering ground by spreading) down there). Was it the Norovirus that's going around (worldwide)...did you have diarrhoea, and additional symptoms of headaches and/or dizziness too? If not, additional symptoms that include aches, chills, temperature and loss of appetite mean food poisoning. Just FYI. "I have just irrational hatred for warm clothes. " Maybe it's NOT irrational? Let's find out. Tell me how and what you feel when you put these warm clothes on. What's the first sensation to bother you? And then continue with the annoyance list from there. We're obviously talking tightness, texture, pressure, temperature, right? What about less obvious things like colour and style? Is Summer your favourite month? What do you wear in Summer/Autumn? Are you a Morning Lark or a Night Owl or something in-between? Do you sweat a lot or barely at all? Also - are you living in your Native country? Which country are you? Has it's weather patterns changed recently? Do you have mixed genes? Where do your parents and their grandparents originally hail from ("paternal" or "maternal" grandparents)? Do any of your relatives have the same or similar problem? PS: Did you look at the aQ Test?

Forgot a couple... Have any of your whole extended family been travelling or even emigrated to another country? And if so - which? Do you have any bad experience involving clothes or that occurred while wearing full clothing? How long has this been the case?

I had no headache. I had weakness and low appetite. I don't think I had food poisoning because I had no fever. I hate summers. I wear just half shirt and half pant in summers. Summers are very nasty. Even in monsoon season weather is very sweaty. I sleep at 9pm and wake up at 3:30am. I sweat like hell between April and mid october. I don't sweat that much in peak summers when heat is dry. 42°C and dry weather is much comfortable than humid 33°C. Yeah, I live in my native country. I am living in this city since my birth. I live in India, the northern gangetic plain. Lucknow is the city where I live. Between 2007-2010, early october used to be cooler. Since last 4-5 years, early october has been humid as hell. I don't remember that much. No, I have no mixed genes. My both parents are Bengalis (not Muslim ones). My dad is living in this city since his birth. His mom and dad migrated to this city 15 years before his birth. They lived in another city which is 200km away from our current city. That city is Prayagraj. Same climate but summers are much hotter. My mom lived many places before marriage as her dad was in military. She lived in many cities in India. Her dad lived in Bangladesh till the age of 7. Then he migrated to Assam and lived there till 17-18. He lived in many cities like Hyderabad (my mum was 1-2 at that time), Bangalore, Delhi, Amritsar, Belagavi and Prayagraj. He lived in different cities for 2-3 years. Don't think climate is the problem. I don't know anyone in my family who is very retarded to avoid wearing warm clothes. Everyone in my family wears a sweater at home except me. No, I didn't took the aQ test which anothe person posted here. I attempted it but there was some glitch in that site. That page was not able to calculate my result. That person poated another link but I was too lazy to attempt that long test.

None of my family, ancestors or grandparents ever travelled or migrated to other country. My dad travelled to Nepal for some days durinf his youth along with his friends. My mum's bro travelled to Bhutan for some months around 11-12 years back for his job. My cousin (dad's elder sister's son) is living in London for last 15-16 years for his work. He was born in my city where he lived till his school days. He was born in 1977. He started going to other countries since late 90s or early 2000s and finally settled in London in 2009. He lived in places like Japan, Netherlands, New Jersey and some Nordic country which I don't remember. I didn't had any bad experience with warm clothes. I just feel like shit out of nowhee.

Hi again - be with you very soon - bear with!