Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi
I have been trying to work out if I am experiencing Shutdowns, I am still not sure
I have been trying to find information online but its pretty unspecific. Very few videos about it either.
If you experience shutdowns, please
I want to determine if I am indeed experiencing shutdowns.
Get your experiences added to this collection .
Thanks for any responses,advice,ideas
just digging this one up in hope more newbies can contribute
I experience this sensation that I’ve come to call “freezing”. I easily get overwhelmed by the various types of stimulus in the outside world and all of the conflicting thoughts inside my head. I end up feeling confused and unable to make decisions and as a result I enter a semi-catatonic state where I become unable to do anything. I feel like I enter a state of hyper-awareness, it’s so surreal. You know if you become too aware of your own breathing it just doesn’t feel natural anymore? I feel like I become too aware of my own thought processes and as a result they end up feeling the same way.
That's what I've started call it: flight or fight, but I 'freeze'. And it's weird, there's kinda a nothingness and an everythingness, or hyper awareness, at the same time. For me it's fundamentally thoughts overwhelming me when i get conflicting information (body language not equating to their words or actions), or i just can't make sense of what's going on. You describe it better than me, esp as shutdown implies nothing is happening.
I guess that makes me feel a bit less weird