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Awaiting diagnosis with snap mood change

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Hi

I am a 49 year old man who has been on the waiting list for a diagnosis for a year now. I was wondering if any others out there experience what I do.

I am normally fairly calm if things around me are, and perfectly with my wife in our house, which is my safe place and sanctuary. Occasionally, I will change into a quite depressed and quiet mood as though someone has flicked a switch on the back of my head. My wife asks me what is wrong, and all I can say is, "I don't know". I don't particularly want to speak unless I am spoken to, and remain in a fairly subdued state until it passes, which can be in several days. Eventually I 'come back to normal' as my wife puts it.

Does anyone recognise this in themselves? What is it that I am experiencing?

Thank you all.

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  • Hi. Can relate to this as have had similar episodes myself. Similarly I withdraw and won’t speak for days and if I do it’s one or two words. Normally a sarcastic comment or a negative look in my direction can cause it and it is like a switch. Think it’s classed as an autistic shutdown. I won’t come out of it until I am ready and if people push me I get angry. 

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  • Hi. Can relate to this as have had similar episodes myself. Similarly I withdraw and won’t speak for days and if I do it’s one or two words. Normally a sarcastic comment or a negative look in my direction can cause it and it is like a switch. Think it’s classed as an autistic shutdown. I won’t come out of it until I am ready and if people push me I get angry. 

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