Computer usage induced anxiety

[ijason]

When I'm at the computer at work (doing boring or tedious tasks), my body tenses up (legs and back) and I have to shake it off. Facial muscles have to twitch and stress builds up.
If I don't shake it off and let it build, I'll have a muscle spasm where I just have to get up. It happens when I'm reading quietly. If I read aloud, I'm fine.

I'm also a leg shaker.

Does anyone experience this? What is it?

 

[gustavofring]

Sitting behind a computer all day staring at a screen can become very tedious and stressful for the body and straining to the eyes, I can tell that from experience. It also breeds the twitchiness and the impatience that you described.

Maybe exercise or some planned "away from computer" time can provide some relief. Man wasn't made so sit behind the computer all day so maybe we need to give our bodies a break sometime.

 

[cowboyup]

When I'm at the computer at work (doing boring or tedious tasks), my body tenses up (legs and back) and I have to shake it off. Facial muscles have to twitch and stress builds up.
If I don't shake it off and let it build, I'll have a muscle spasm where I just have to get up. It happens when I'm reading quietly. If I read aloud, I'm fine.

I'm also a leg shaker.

Does anyone experience this? What is it?

I am a a leg shaker also. When I used to work all day at the computer, I would have to take a break every once in awhile because I'd get tense muscles like you. Although mine were mainly my jaw, neck area and sometimes charley horse.

For me, though, that doesn't happen when I am reading.

I would gestimate it to be tension build up from sitting and doing a task over and over again, or something like that. ??