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physical/mental shut down multiple times during the day

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the title is the best way i can describe it after spending a long time trying to understand my patterns. you may have noticed that i have difficulty with memory that i have posted about on here before. can be in the middle of doing a task and i have this overwhelming need to stop and lie down. i can be trying to figure out some of my work and i cannot do anything more. it feels like i will pass out if i don’t stop. sometimes it leads me to lie down because i lose all strength in my body. at which point i may fall asleep or get very very anxious and my heart races and i feel like i start to have sensory overload. this happens multiple times during the day so i have had to start limiting the time i spend on my daily tasks. especially anything that somewhat requires a bit of mental and physical energy. do you have this??

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  • That doesn't sound quite like my shut-downs, but mine are usually caused by an obvious stimulus. On the other hand I do sometimes get mental blanks, like very short periods of catatonia, which do have the more "out of the blue" character that you seem to be describing. And I have also got to know on one of the other autism forums, a man who seems to be describing something strikingly similar to what you've written there, though he's received no diagnosis yet. So I certainly wouldn't rule out shut-downs, there seem to be a lot of variants on these kind of temporary "absent" mental states.

    However as  said, I'd check with your GP as well; I've known people with hypoglycemia who describe dips in their blood sugar levels in a similar way.

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  • That doesn't sound quite like my shut-downs, but mine are usually caused by an obvious stimulus. On the other hand I do sometimes get mental blanks, like very short periods of catatonia, which do have the more "out of the blue" character that you seem to be describing. And I have also got to know on one of the other autism forums, a man who seems to be describing something strikingly similar to what you've written there, though he's received no diagnosis yet. So I certainly wouldn't rule out shut-downs, there seem to be a lot of variants on these kind of temporary "absent" mental states.

    However as  said, I'd check with your GP as well; I've known people with hypoglycemia who describe dips in their blood sugar levels in a similar way.

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