Does anyone else get this?

I try to think of a situation or even a reply to a question and its like a force field that doesn't let my words out. Then I can see beams of different coloured light from all different directions hitting my head and zapping the words as they try to escape. Makes it impossible to talk and if I do manage a reply, its half missing or messed up

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I get word blocks sometimes but I think it's hereditary at least for me. it does feel like a force field or literally a wall. like my own thoughts and mind are inaccessible to me. I usually have to use a different word or say something different from how i wanted because i can't find how to say something other wise i will stop mid sentence and stand there thnking of the word. My father does the same thing but it's much worse. He completely stops talking or will mumble for 20 minutes never being able to finish his sentence.
It's very frustrating and it makes me feel and look really stupid.

[optimize990h]

Originally Posted by HavingABadDay

Does anyone else get this?

I try to think of a situation or even a reply to a question and its like a force field that doesn't let my words out. Then I can see beams of different coloured light from all different directions hitting my head and zapping the words as they try to escape. Makes it impossible to talk and if I do manage a reply, its half missing or messed up

I sometimes have this problem when I am stresses, but it usually happens when I am tired.

[faerie_moon_x]

I get some minor blocking in that I totally forget when I'm talking about. It's like the words evaporate right out of my head. It's minor for me, though. I tend to be the rambler. I go off on huge tangents and take the long way to the point...

I get HUUUUGEEEEEE word blocks. But I find that taking the time to relax & calmly write my thoughts down actually helps most of the time.

[faerie_moon_x]

Yes, writing things down to get my thoughts in order is extremely helpful. I can't always get the words out. But, I communicate better by writing in general. I don't communicate so well verbally, I think. If you met me, I think you'd see a big difference between my communication of speaking and writing.

Dark, I have this same thing. I just can't seem to get the words out of my head. I can 'see' them, just by the time I want to speak, half of the words seem to go and what I say is messed up. I can't have a conversation with anyone. But when I type, like here, its a little easier, even though it does take me some time to even write this much. I have to read it over several times, change words to make it sound 'right' and then read it again. If I don't then even the typed or written stuff dont make sense. I'm sure I could hold conversations in the past, but now no one seems to want to talk to me. Just like one big circular hole getting deeper.

[tonalized]

Sometimes, when I get really nervous, I have trouble talking.

[costello]

Originally Posted by tonalized

Sometimes, when I get really nervous, I have trouble talking.

I suspect that's what happens to my son too. When his amygdala get overly engaged, his frontal lobes just shut down.

Today I had to talk to my solicitor. I couldnt get any really sentences out. ON top of that I had Him (no not the solicitor) screaming and shouting down my ear to stop talking to the solicitor. I wasnt even managing to string together a full sentence. I was getting annoyed and the solicitor thought it was him I was annoyed at but in reality it wasnt.

[faerie_moon_x]

Yes, that would be very frustrating. I don't have that issue with the something yelling in my head. But I have the racing thougths problem. And racing thougths + pressured speach means that I'm jumping from topic to topic without explanation, and yet can't shut up. I think that's why I like forums...

Can you write a letter to your solicitor or an e-mail and explain you were having some troubles and it wasn't aimed at him?

Yes I prefer forums too. I can take my time and put together something that makes sense. If I posted here with the first thing I typed, no one would understand me. Probably dont anyway

I get the racing thoughts sometimes too. Its a bit like several conversations trying to exit my mouth at once and I cant control any of them. So I end up gibbering bits from each, but each bit makes sense on its own, but its all irrelevant to the other bits.

I think the solicitor does understand i wasnt having a go at him, and he ended up talking to my mum about stuff so it should be okay.

["Tilly may"]

i have the opposite effect. my brain tells me to say things that i shouldnt say to people that i shouldnt say them to. so i avoid being with people