Posted by capricorn on April 15, 2006, at 11:37:28
When i am in an emotional/stressed state i have marked tendency to become irrational and mentally 'all over the place'.I find it hard to think straight and experience what i would call a 'cognitive meltdown.
This will manifest itself in an agitated spewing forth of words in an ill thought out/disorganised
and somewhat hysterical way either in terms of speech in a face to face situation or the written word when interacting online.i can go to pieces over something and have
an intense emotional reaction and yet the next day or even hours later it's as if it never
happened.When it's happening though it is so accute. Sometimes when it gets very bad it builds up like a fever in the brain and then follows
the sensation of being awake and yet in a dream,unaturally peaceful.Sometimes there is a feeling of familiar things looking unfamiliar / as if visually things are being seen in through the distorted lens of an avant garde cinematographer.
When not stressed i am a reasonably articulate and intelligent 49 year old.
However when faced by events and situations i find stressful i seem to regress to being much younger than my 49 years.
Does anyone else experience this? Do you have any advice on how to cope with it/minimise the effect.
poster:capricorn
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