Skip to main content
Close Button
Donate
  • Replies 37 replies
  • Subscribers 97 subscribers
  • Views 10141 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

How many meltdowns a week?

Deleted user
over 5 years ago

Hi

So I average about 1/2 meltdowns a week. How about you guys?

I can kind of recognise when I am about to fall down the rabbit hole.  I try to isolate myself and then start to stim.

Also my meltdown cycle is; anxiety, frustration/anger, despair then a feeling of emptiness for a few days.

Parents
  • over 5 years ago

    Mine are down to zero at the minute. They started to reduce when I had a major meltdown in the job centre last year, and it turns out, my job coach knew exactly what to do and it was the first time in my life I had had a meltdown in front of somebody who actually not only knew what was happening but she knew what to do to help me come out of it. 

    I was absolutely astonished, and since then, without me noticing really, they have gradually reduced to nothing. I don’t know if it will remain this way, but now I know how to handle them, I no longer fear them. Maybe that’s why I no longer have them? Maybe it was the fear of them that was actually bringing them on? 

    Prior to this, I was definitely having a good few a week and some of them were torturous ~ no wonder I feared them! But I don’t fear them anymore. The only thing I am making certain of, is to avoid burnouts. I will not have another burnout but I’m prepared to risk a meltdown. 

Reply
  • over 5 years ago

    Mine are down to zero at the minute. They started to reduce when I had a major meltdown in the job centre last year, and it turns out, my job coach knew exactly what to do and it was the first time in my life I had had a meltdown in front of somebody who actually not only knew what was happening but she knew what to do to help me come out of it. 

    I was absolutely astonished, and since then, without me noticing really, they have gradually reduced to nothing. I don’t know if it will remain this way, but now I know how to handle them, I no longer fear them. Maybe that’s why I no longer have them? Maybe it was the fear of them that was actually bringing them on? 

    Prior to this, I was definitely having a good few a week and some of them were torturous ~ no wonder I feared them! But I don’t fear them anymore. The only thing I am making certain of, is to avoid burnouts. I will not have another burnout but I’m prepared to risk a meltdown. 

Children