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06 Jul 2012, 3:28 pm

Is it possible to experience a long term meltdown? I have been slowly becoming more and more depressed and unable to function in normal society. I cannot get motivated for even the simplest tasks and this has been getting more intensive slowly over several years. I am obsessed with one rpg and watching "plausible" science fiction. I will even skip eating.

Recently I have started taking a piano repair course and I love the information, but after I have set the study material aside, I have difficulty starting it again.

Is it possible to have a long lasting meltdown that lasts possibly years.


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06 Jul 2012, 3:35 pm

A meltdown is an instance of furious overload reaction. It is overwhelming and exhausting and constantly intense until you find some way to calm down.

What you are experiencing sounds more like progressing into depression and possibly a shutdown mode. Shutdowns can definitely be longer term than meltdowns. One can live in a state of shutdown, just kind of.


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06 Jul 2012, 3:37 pm

I dont think thats possable to have a meltdown last for years, you would be totally melted by now. Maybe you are depressed or something?



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06 Jul 2012, 4:25 pm

That sounds a lot more like a state of depression based on what I've seen for chemical depression in my Mum, and situational depression in myself.


Regardless of what it is, I hope you feel better soon.



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06 Jul 2012, 5:13 pm

Some kind of depression or maybe anxiety or regression of some skills (e.g. communication or ability to follow-through tasks). A meltdown lasts no more than half an hour for me. And that is really a long one for sure.


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06 Jul 2012, 5:26 pm

It is either depression or anxiety. But I don't see how a melt down. Would last that long but hope you feel better soon :D



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06 Jul 2012, 5:41 pm

Look into autistic burnouts.



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06 Jul 2012, 5:53 pm

Shutdowns:

http://everything2.com/user/Zifendorf/writeups/shutdown

http://www.shutdownsandstressinautism.c ... Autism.pdf

http://www.ingridloosmiller.com/files/SI-SDinAutism.pdf

Adult Autistic Burnout:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt153352.html

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt161118.html

Plus of course it could be depression. I find my long term burnout/shutdown periods tend to be mixed up with depression, and of course I have depression outside of burnouts and shutdown.