Can't communicate properly.

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For the past four days I have been finding communication very difficult and sometimes impossible. I have been isolating myself excessively. What is going on with me.

I've got feelings similar to that. Lately I've been finding it more harder to go out of the house and just wanting to isolate myself, because of the anxiety of facing people.

I've been doing this since I turned eighteen to some degree, and I wasn't always like this.

I'm slowly regaining the ability to communicate again. It turns out this five day period of being near-nonverbal was an overload/meltdown/shutdown.

How do I prevent this from happening again?

You need to realize that you can change your state of being at any point (happy, sad, etc)

Next time you are in this funk, just pretend physically that you aren't. (How would you stand if you could communicate, where would your eyes go, your arms, legs, what would you be thinking about, would your head be up or down). Get into the physical position of not being in that funk, and then watch the magic happen.

Example: I'm sure you have been depressed at some point in your life. You notice how its really hard to be depressed when you are standing up tall with your head held high?

Also, look into meditation, I do breathing exercises regularly and they have done wonders for controlling stress and meltdowns.

My daughter goes into shutdown like this. She rarely ever meltsdown anymore. But she does lose speech sometimes.

I would watch for signs that you are extending past your capacity and try to take a break of some sort before it gets to that point. My son has had some success with this. When he gets overstimulated he gets very amped up. He has learned to catch himself before that point and go for some quiet time. Would that help?

Thank you for the advice. I will try these things.

It sounds to me like depression. Have you had any negative events in your life over the last week or so? It may be that you are having a difficult time putting a label on your emotions and are experiencing the effects of depression without realizing that's what it is.

Well I had a lot of stress around socialising and also a troublesome housemate (who has now been evicted by the carers).