I don’t know which group to post this on cause I don’t know what is caused by what. Sometimes when so overwhelmed I can’t think straight and lose my train of thought. I might go to write something to let off some steam and my body won’t cooperate. I should let you know that I will be getting an EEG done next month to rule out/figure some health stuff but I’m wondering how much is connected with mental health and if anyone has experience with it or may understand it. If I feel too upset I may try to write and it won’t happen. I’ll blank out briefly or my body will act up and I’ll get muscle jerks or something.
This may be a different topic but also extreme mood swings. I’ve been doing over all better but something can trigger an explosion for me. I can get so angry and it’s hard to control and painful. I can’t think straight and don’t know how to handle my anger properly. Any suggestions?
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Yep sounds about right. I sometimes bite my lip and walk away if I can and have some time to try and collect myself and calm down. However sometimes I just explode especially when people question me and say why are you getting so worked up, calm down, don’t get annoyed. That makes me even worse and I do just explode.
While anger isn’t always present, I dissociate when I’m overwhelmed too! Or one of my triggers sends me spiraling into a stage of separation and loss of reality. It can last for minutes or hours or days. Sometimes I don’t remember things that I did during those periods of time. I guess now, I’m trying to find ways to come out of it. Up until a few years ago I used self harm to do this. But now I’m trying to find healthier ways of coping like meditation, drawing, writing, walking. It also helps to just lean into it and know it will pass.
Right there with ya girl. I have the same things happen to me. My train of thought can be all over the place some days, and I wonder what the heck is wrong with me. My daughters kind of laugh it off when we go to a store, and I know I am there for a few things, but when I get there, I have no idea what I came there for. Or even going to another room in the house. I know there was a reason, what was it for, and I have to just stand there, look around and think. Sometimes I have no clue and I have to leave the room and wait for things to come back to me. It can be so frustrating, and drives me nuts. Especially when I have a few things I need to write down, and I get the first one down, and I can't remember the others in that short period of time. The scans that my Neuro has done have all come back clean with the FND stuff except for testing on epilepsy. I knew there was something more than non-epileptic seizures that all the other docs had said, and I was right! ha ha
You know, it makes me wonder, if when you blank out if you are having oh what is it called and absence seizure.. I might have that spelled wrong, but where you just kind of stare off into space and not know what is going on. Who knows, just a thought. Worth asking about, and make sure that your doc addresses it, and doesn't just pass it by.
your not alone. just keep trying to remember, and if its important it will come back. hopefully. Good luck
Thank you Cheryl! I have wondered that myself and hope it gets figured out. I used to kind of stare off or daydream in elementary school apparently as they did some school testing on me saying it looked like I wasn’t paying attention but nothing was really done about it.
Last year a CBT diagnosed me with ADHD and thought that’s what it is. To an extent it may be true with trouble keeping track of a lot but I don’t think it makes sense of the blank outs. I do not think I have the complex partial like my husband used to have but I have read about absence and that would more make sense and myoclonic ones.
I’m happy to say that my ambulatory video EEG will be this Friday! Until Monday and then I will have a follow up appointment with the specialist in January. I was starting to get nervous about the test. Wondering what the diagnosis will be. I’m scared they won’t know or I won’t be able to handle the diagnosis like if they said PNES cause they might just treat me like it’s all mental...at least with Family or others it feels like. It might also be overwhelming getting other diagnosis but I’d be happy to know what I’m dealing with.
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