Meltdown skills

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Since i dont want to waste much time of you ill get to the point before explaining the situation further. I need to know what do you do in meltdown situations? How do you access a sort of control over it or do you have a way or cheats that can calm you faster or help you to find ground again?

- Intro:

Im in a very stressfull situation which contains moveing the place.

Yes moveing is terrifyng, its messy and nasty and breaks apart the confortzone like placement of things. To it is emotionally exhausting to me.

I had a horrible meltdown today by packing my stuff and i was so overload of the situation i lost completely my sense of orientation. Ill feel despair and helpless because its a situation i cant controll when im melting down. It can end in destroying things and even getting hurt by it. In these therms im talking of a extreme meltdown when my confortzone subconscious is under asault. My worse luck to because my daycare stoped by and she had to withness it. Ye i managed to be the top freakshow AWESOME! She knows of my diagnose, i said im overload but holy s**t she wouldnt stop telling me to do this and navigate me even more into the mess ...which i know she means well by it but it doesnt do well no it made all worse since i already was lost. Luckily im not the verbal - physical agressive person i rater retrieve and cry. Now i calmed down a bit, but hell i was close to vomite and this is very bad im haveing a phobia to do it which prevented me to do so but it went over to a migrane. It took 2h to calm down. I wish i knew better how to handle this, will it ever go away?!

When I have an autistic meltdown everything suddenly gets bright goes white and then I lose control. I only have a vague blurry recollection of it afterwards.

So there is no way to kinda to make it stop?! Im 33 i cant always get these meltdowns

I always lose people trough this and lately its gotten worse to im very lonely i turn mad.

I refuse medications such as anti depressants and anti psychoticas etc because i had 3 months of rehability symphtoms. It was to by accident i was travel abroad and had not enough medications to a consult a psyciatrist because i had no insurance. I was forced basically to live without any medications. I very much remember the before and the after and i know i feel decent functional without which wasnt the case with that doctorine. I want to know know if there is a more specific therapy like DBT im not a borderline but i had to go trough such a stationary program where they teach you a tool kitt how to handle stress and anxiety as such as dissociation. While it is helpfull to use such tactics in minimal situations i need to know if there is something similar for the melt downs its embaressing if it happens in the front of people. It can happened with a snip of a finger to i dont really understand what causes the factor so i can take it by its roots and work with. Im so afraid im 33 years things like these haveing stuck with me since forever and it does cause harm in social inter action. Like another example if people try to explain something and dont get straight to the point or make it very precise and simple its to many informations at once to handle. Ill get lost and i dont exactly understand what is happening it causes distress in 3rd parties. Im at a loss im suposed to function like a propper adault but i dont its verry scarry.

Ps sorry im useing this page from the phone it sometimes bugs.

It might be worth trying to visualise what you are going to do before you start and try to plan what you are going to do and in what order. If possible try to have a space where you can go and sit and listen to music through headphones or to do something you know can try to distract you from the situation if things start getting too much. It's trying to catch yourself before things start getting too much. It won't happen over night but hope this is of some help?

Yes you might be there unto something i love music, i like this idea and will try it out. Music will work ill buy good headphones. Thank you for the idea.

Hope it helps.

Have you tried CBD oil when you feel a meltdown coming on? It seems to help some people.

It's a non-hallucinogenic extract of Cannabis.

The other thing is, do you have a family member who could help you pack?

Is this CBD oil legal in europe i never heared of it. If so and it is natural ill try it out im eager to do what i can to improve the life quality.

Im finish with moveing and no i have no family that is suportive nor understanding towards my very being but my mental health care nurse she comes weekly to visite helped to me allot. Im so happy this place is great. Loads of room to spare and a balcony finally i can sitt outside without being afraid.

The most important thing is to try to avoid having one- giving yourself breaks, letting yourself stim, using sensory devices/toys and having an escape route.

Mid meltdown, on lesser meltdowns or near the beginning or end, for me grounding techniques help reduce the length and severity. So, picking out fifteen things in your vision, breathing right, removing myself from the situation if I can, and the like helps.

Even during lesser meltdowns I have very little control, during more severe meltdowns I generally cannot do anything, and my body takes over.

I'm still trying to figure out a way to stop self harm during meltdowns (I bite myself and scratch my hands often until the start to bleed)

you're not going to stop it and i am not sure if it would be healthy to try...but you can try to make it predictable so that it just ONLY happens one way. THIS...helps. When I am on the verge of meltdown the thing I lack most is a sense of safety and stability, I can;t stop the meltdown...but I can formalize a single protocol which is easy for anyone around who cares to spot, so that they can help me deal with it. BUT much of it just comes down to not being around people who are going to escalate on you, insist that it's not a meltdown but just you and lacking of your character and so on. the very best thing for a meltdown is just to have people around who care and understand that you are scared and confused....but making a protocol does help.

I don't know if it is available in Europe. You can google CBD Oil and your city and maybe find some dealers local to you. It is a natural (not synthetic) hemp extract. Supposedly it has far fewer side effects than all the pharmaceutical drugs being pushed on us. It is used to lessen epileptic seizures in children, and my daughter, who is autistic, says she uses it when she feels like a meltdown is coming on. You place a drop under your tongue, so it gets into your system very rapidly.