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Originally Posted by biiv
im not sure where to put this so i hope here is ok.
was at T week before last and had a major panic attack. when i got home i came on here into chat and couldnt seem to get a grip on myself. it was like there was a void in my head and the odd phrase was scrolling into it. i couldnt think and when someone asked me a question i would go completely blank unless it was something that had a very straightforward answer. yes or no. it was like i was 5 years old or something. couldnt think, couldnt reason, couldnt express. all i could do was answer sort of instinctively. and any bad feelings threatening to come up... total blank again. somewhere in the back of my head it was like i was watching myself going wtf?? but i couldnt do anything about it. then i got so exhausted tired i literally couldnt keep my eyes open so i lay down on the floor (couldnt move any further) and sort of zoned out for a bit. when i 'woke up' a while later i realised id been lying on a plate and not even noticed. i felt more or less back to myself though.
does it sound a bit like a dissociative thing? its hard to tell from inside my own brain so some objective feedback would be welcome. some of you here stayed in chat with me and thank you for that. i dont know what would have happened otherwise. maybe i should be posting this in the dissociative forum but i dont know... please any comments or thoughts greatly appreciated.
thanks
biiv
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Ive had this happen to me but my physician and therapist told me it was simular to sleep depravation where my therapy session was so exhausting and so emotionally charged that my body needed sleep and my brains thinking process went to minimal funtioning. once I got some sleep I was fine. I had gone through this many times before like when I dont get much sleep during finals week. I have to literally set an alarm clock during finals week so that I get the right amount of sleep that I need and I dont go into anxiety overload over the upcoming exams that way I wont just literally pass out from anxiety, stress and lack of sleep. My therapist and I now that we know I have this problem we make sure that we schedule our sessions in such a way that I have plenty of time to "come down" from the session before leaving her office if it is an emotionally charged session and we also schedule times when we just have slow low on the emotions sessions in between the emotionally charged ones. with these precautions in place this depravation thing doesnt happen so often anymore.