Posted by Ritch on February 1, 2003, at 11:08:28
In reply to for Jodie and Ritch continutation...TLE, posted by highanxiety on February 1, 2003, at 6:49:56
> Has anyone told you you do any other stuff or react in a way that surprized you, like you didnt know you were doing that?
Back when I was 11 or 12 (again-and this happens sometimes nowadays, but not much since I have been taking anticonvulsants for bipolar instead of lithium), I had this really bad problem with echolalia (repeating the last word out loud that someone just spoke to me). My grandpa was always telling me to "stop doing that". And I would ask him what he meant, and I just couldn't recall doing it. Also, I have noticed some echopraxia, where I assume the same postures that other people have when they are tallking to me. One thing that was particularly weird that I noticed when I was taking Prozac---if I read an email or a report that was written by someone that I knew well, I could hear their voice in my head reading it instead of "in my voice", as though they were reading it to me.
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> I have problems every time I stare at my computer. I start feeling unbalanced, I feel like I'm floating..then the odors, then the ticcing then the panic.Do either of you have problems looking at a computer screen?
No problems there, but when I was on lithium (again), I would see a mouse or something streak across the floor in my peripheral vision and would try to find one and couldn't. One time on Prozac I remember seeing someone in my rear view mirror that wasn't there just for a flash (another peripheral vision thing).>
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> This is probably my biggest dilemma, because it interferes with my day so much..I pick up odors that don't even register on anyone elses radar...I hate that!! I'm like at the mercy of my nose! I can't walk past a food court in a shopping mall without having one of these spells..the popourri smell in stores..the soap my mother uses to wash her hands..for me it's like a sensory hell.
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> hmm..in my past life..I was probably one of those scent dogs that track prison escapees, LOL!
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