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Meltdown

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Can someone please explain to me what a meltdown is.

Are there mild and severe meltdowns

Is laying on the floor not crying just laying down a melt down 

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  • I'd call that shut down too and I had more of those than melt downs as a kid. Apparently, I'd just freeze and become non-verbal and unresponsive.  Melt down, in whatever form, everyone there notices, shut downs rarely are noticed. The melt down/shut down thing can take many forms.

    Very, very rarely do I have them, but I have been known to have puddle of tears type melt downs - uncontrollable anguished crying you often can't identify the cause for and just won't stop.  Mercifully, I can feel that coming and generally manage to get away by myself.  In medical situations, I can get some pretty dramatic 'flight' or 'explosion' type meltdowns which are sensory/fear driven.  Sadly, they cause problems because someone is about to or has just done something to me and there's no escape.  Those are getting worse as I get older.

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  • I'd call that shut down too and I had more of those than melt downs as a kid. Apparently, I'd just freeze and become non-verbal and unresponsive.  Melt down, in whatever form, everyone there notices, shut downs rarely are noticed. The melt down/shut down thing can take many forms.

    Very, very rarely do I have them, but I have been known to have puddle of tears type melt downs - uncontrollable anguished crying you often can't identify the cause for and just won't stop.  Mercifully, I can feel that coming and generally manage to get away by myself.  In medical situations, I can get some pretty dramatic 'flight' or 'explosion' type meltdowns which are sensory/fear driven.  Sadly, they cause problems because someone is about to or has just done something to me and there's no escape.  Those are getting worse as I get older.

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