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Sometimes when I’m sitting at my desk, I suddenly feel the ground shaking, but when I look around, everyone else is just sitting there calmly. I always feel really stupid, and I was starting to wonder if there was something wrong with me. Last night, however, my wife did the same thing, and then this morning I came across an article about ‘jishin yoi (link is in Japanese only).’ ‘Yoi’ usually means ‘drunk,’ but ‘kuruma yoi’ is ‘car sickness’ and ‘funa yoi’ is ‘sea sickness,’ so ‘jishin yoi’ can be translated as ‘earthquake sickness.’
The article defines it as “feeling dizzy or shaky even though there there is no earthquake happening.” Apparently, it’s becoming quite common in Japan due to the terrible earthquake and all the aftershocks these days.
I wonder if there’s a word for my other neurosis, obsessively checking the radiation levels in Tokyo every five minutes (The link is in Japanese only, but the first column is the maximum, the second is the minimum, and the third is the average. The normal level is 0.028～0.079 micro sieverts.)
March 19, 2011 at 11:30 am
I am so, so sad from reading about Japan’s recent calamities. Hope you and yours are OK.
March 26, 2011 at 12:04 pm
We keep getting reports of more quakes and further problems in Japan. Our hopes and wishes are with you Japan in this time of need.
Japan Australia
April 1, 2011 at 8:07 am
I am in Tokyo and also experiencing the jishin yoi effects. I have never been prone to any form of motion sickness, so this is a new, and not altogether enriching experience.
April 2, 2011 at 6:50 pm
I hope you’re okay there. must be acute stress, or Meniere’s:0
April 10, 2011 at 11:54 pm
Ah man, I’ve been getting this too since the earthquake, and I only live in Osaka!
I didn’t even know this sickness existed until my girlfriend told me I was suffering from it. Not very pleasant at all.
January 17, 2012 at 8:52 am
Tim, do you still feel the “motion”?
April 16, 2011 at 7:32 am
What’s worse is that after a month I’m not reacting to the earthquakes as I should. I’m much less cautious and I feel like they will all be little. I survived the 9.0, so anything else should be fine, right?
April 18, 2011 at 11:53 am
Check here for radiation levels in English:
http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/1303986.htm
Not quite as up-to-date as your link though.
April 25, 2011 at 11:18 pm
This is an urgent matter I must relay to you about “Earthquake” hangover and I have evidence to prove it to you with the links, I’m providing to you. Mal de Debarqument syndrome is Earthquake Hangover and it’s all related to Motion Related …Issue’s and probably Stress. Please watch this video and read links I have provided to you.
This is an urgent medical issue for you to understand so you can try to treat The Good People of Japan that are suffering with this life altering Mal de Deqarquement Syndrome of (MdDS) if you need to contact Dr. Richard Lewis or Dr. Adrian Priesol @ Massachusetts Eye & Ear they will be able to provide much more info to you. We need International Attention on Mal de Debarquement Syndrome because it is not as rare as doctors suspect because of the lack of knowledge to this Syndrome.
Please take this seriously because Earthquake Hangover Mimic’s Mal de Debarqment Syndome (MdDS)
Mal De Debarquement Syndrome a rare & life altering disorder! It’s more common then people think it is. This usually goes undiagnosed because the lack of education to Dr.’s. This syndrome mimic’s exactly Earthquake Hangover in Japan.
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/mdds_complete_symptoms.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/14/how-to-treat-an-earthquake-hangover/
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4180415
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/professionals/professionals_index.html
April 30, 2011 at 3:13 am
After everything that happened in Japan, it makes sense for some to experience jishin yoi.
We were spared of that while living in Kyushu for three years. We were there during the Kobe earthquake, but slept right through it, being on another island.
I experienced my very first earth quake right here in Germany on Feb 14 of this year (4..6 on the Richter scale).
Keep safe!
May 29, 2011 at 2:19 am
これは、「地震」二日酔いを中継する必要があります緊急の問題であり私リンクを証明する証拠がある私を提供しています。マル ・ デ ・ Debarqument 症候群地震二日酔いと、すべての運動に関連する関連している.問題は、おそらくストレス。くださいこのビデオを見るし、私は提供してリンクを読みます。
これは、緊急の医療問題マル ・ デ ・ Deqarquement 症候群 (博士リチャード ・ ルイスに連絡する必要がありますまたは博士エイドリアン Priesol @ マサチューセッ…ツの目し耳は場合の Mdd) の多くの情報を提供することができるので、良い人、この人生を変えるに苦しんでいる日本の治療しようとすることができますを理解するのです。医師として、まれではないためマル ・ デ ・ Debarquement 症候群国際注意が必要な問題のあるこの症候群の知識の不足のため。
地震の二日酔いを模倣してくださいこの真剣にマル ・ デ ・ Debarqment Syndome (Mdd) の
マル ・ デ ・ Debarquement 症候群は、まれな ＆ 生活の障害を変更すること ！一般的ですし、人々 がそれだと思います。これは通常診断未確定行く博士の教育の欠如。この症候群の模倣のまさに地震二日酔い日本。
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/mdds_complete_symptoms.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/14/how-to-treat-an-earthquake-hangover/
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4180415
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/professionals/professionals_index.html
This is an urgent matter I must relay to you about “Earthquake” hangover and I have evidence to prove it to you with the links, I’m providing to you. Mal de Debarqument syndrome is Earthquake Hangover and it’s all related to Motion Related Issue’s and probably Stress. Please watch this video and read links I have provided to you.
This is an urgent medical issue for you to understand so you can try to treat The Good People of Japan that are suffering with this life altering Mal de Deqarquement Syndrome of (MdDS). We need International Attention on Mal de Debarquement Syndrome because it is not as rare as doctors suspect because of the lack of knowledge to this Syndrome.
Please take this seriously because Earthquake Hangover Mimic’s Mal de Debarqment Syndome (MdDS)
Mal De Debarquement Syndrome a rare & life altering disorder! It’s more common then people think it is. This usually goes undiagnosed because the lack of education to Dr.’s. This syndrome mimic’s exactly Earthquake Hangover in Japan.
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/mdds_complete_symptom…
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/14/how-t…/
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4180415
http://www.mddsfoundation.org/professionals/profess…