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Sedaka
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 Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: Define Meltdown |
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K so i dont mean i dont get the general concept...
but i see ppl using it slightly differently.... like a stress overload or violent outburst.... or uncontrolable sobbing; all mixed in with some stimming. this last one is one i identify most with...
is it all of the above? or are there limits as to what constitutes a meltdown?
plz define these boundaries.... i only have my own insanity to work with here.
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calandale
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I've only taken it to mean my full blown
rages or tantrums. Anything less just
seems like a form of depression. |
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Pugly
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: |
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I don't know either. I am so mellow that I rarely get an overwhelming emotional response... which seems to me what a meltdown is.
There is only one time that I remember that I can only describe as a meltdown, when I was in school... I blew up at bullies in a shop class. Various stresses were pulling me in opposite direction, and I just went uncontrollable... threw chairs and stuff.
It was very freighting not being in control... I can't imagine how bad it must be to experience this frequently.
My best guess is that a meltdown is just that: a loss of control, and different people act differently when they lose control.
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TheMachine1
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:45 am Post subject: |
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Its just means to become upset. Often with a childish reaction out of degree with the
level of stress and for an unsually long lenght of time. |
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0_equals_true
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I not sure that the outbursts that I get should be classed the same as the 'null state' that I go into.
I have this null state, I'm not really there, well depending on the degree of severity. Sounds sound garbled I don't seem to care about anything. It is like I've blown a fuse. I remember once just standing on a train platform not moving. Loads of trains were passing through, but I didn't get on a single one and I didn't care. I was just standing there oblivious.
I also think of it when there is a noise that particularly grates like the sweeping sound. I really hate that sweeping sound. Also the clicking sound pipes make. Especially when I cant get rid of it. Sound like beeping, ringing too. They make me go a bit mental.
I also get panic attacks but I class those as different too.
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TrishC7
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| I'd say really, really upset, and as was mentioned different people express it differently. Some people 'tantrum,' for instance, and others will withdraw extremely. From what I read/hear, I tend to think of meltdown as typically being in response to outside stimuli, whether some specific interaction or general overstimulation. |
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CockneyRebel
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Just this past Thursday afternoon, I was in Ft Langley with my clubhouse walking club. I was a little rude to the cashier, so I went back and apologized to her. She got all nasty and told me that she couldn't help me. I've broke down into tears as I was thanking her and telling her that I've appreciated all that she's done for me, than I ran off crying. I was outside, venting to both my staff worker and the summer student that the cashier thought that I was a troublemaker who was asking for free stuff. The most NT of the women who came on the walk started to lecture me on what she saw. I ran off, crying and calling myself a loser. I was stroking the back of my McDonald's Sid figurine, all the way on the ride back to the clubhouse. That to me, is my version of a Meltdown.  |
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skahthic
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:32 am Post subject: |
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I'm guessing that hopping out of my car in the middle of afternoon traffic and screaming/crying and stamping my feet when I got hopelessly lost trying to find my way to a David Copperfield show would be considered a meltdown? It just happened, I couldn't seem to stop it.
My boyfriend LOVED that one--- I'm glad he's so patient. |
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richie
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I used to lose control over silly little things. My last melt-down happened more than thirty years ago
when I was in my mid-teens. Today I can evade, prevent or deal with the people, things, places, or
situations that can cause a total loss of self possession. I still shut down whenever I am confronted
by certain types of people. You know, the idiots who think you were put in this world to entertain their
empty minds with gossip or small talk about sports, smut or some other such non-sense. |
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SteveK
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| calandale wrote: | I've only taken it to mean my full blown
rages or tantrums. Anything less just
seems like a form of depression. |
WOW, if you DON'T act, that is ANGER. If you DO act, it is a tantrum. So what is a MELTDOWN!?!?
Based on earlier statements here, **I** determined a meltdown to be...
The temporary inability, or reduction of ability, to do something due to stress.
Such a thing WILL cause anger, etc... It MAY cause stimming. It may EVEN cause a tantrum. It may EVEN cause depression! But it is certainly seperate.
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willow
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Define Meltdown |
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| Sedaka wrote: | K so i dont mean i dont get the general concept...
but i see ppl using it slightly differently.... like a stress overload or violent outburst.... or uncontrolable sobbing; all mixed in with some stimming. this last one is one i identify most with...
is it all of the above? or are there limits as to what constitutes a meltdown?
plz define these boundaries.... i only have my own insanity to work with here. |
maybe it is different for each person....to me, it is any kind of uncontrollable, emotional outburst.
I had one yesterday for the first time in a long time. I hate it.
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nobodyzdream
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: Re: Define Meltdown |
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| Sedaka wrote: |
but i see ppl using it slightly differently.... like a stress overload or violent outburst.... or uncontrolable sobbing; all mixed in with some stimming. this last one is one i identify most with... |
To me it's kind of a mix-I get the stress overload first, or the complete confusion that makes absolutely no sense, and I don't know what to do with it because of that. So, in spite of it not making any sense, I get overwhelming feelings of emotion or numbness that are beyond my control.
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9CatMom
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Losing control
Going crazy
Or, conversely, shutting down completely |
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Alternative
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| To me, a meltdown is when one finds one situation to stressful, difficult, and or anxious, and then one loses control and goes crazy and angry, or the opposite and just switches off not wanting to talk to anything or anyone. |
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cosmiccat
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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An example:
Someone is angrily screaming at you when you're a passenger in their car and you're trapped there and it's so overwhelming that you try to get out of the car when it's still moving and then you find that you don't know where you are and you're walking around in 90 degree heat, dazed and confused. I guess that would qualify as a meltdown.
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