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View Poll Results: Do you ever go temporarily mute due to too much stress? | |
Yes, I do
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No, I don't
|    | 7 | 14.29% | 
28-11-2007, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by becvan  You'd be amazed how long you can go without speaking and no one notices! ;) | Yeah, I know. I would go days when I was a teenager not speaking just to see if anyone in my family would notice. No one did.
The good thing about my family now is that if I don't talk for a short period of time, someone notices and asks me if I'm ok. It's nice to be noticed and have people be concerned about me.
Lisa |
28-11-2007, 10:15 AM
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Oh yes Lisa! I definitely shut down.
I usually just lay on the couch and fall asleep. And if I can't fall asleep right away (to avoid talking or interaction), I will take 1/2 of a sleeping pill-regardless of the time. Anything to escape.
nor |
28-11-2007, 10:33 AM
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I voted yes too. I have gone through periods of mutism for a period of days-weeks before. Mostly during my adolescence, though it still happens now when I'm overwhelmed with stress. |
29-11-2007, 07:58 AM
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I go mute for days when I get really bad now, which is definitely a step up over the weeks of silence when I was a teenager in the bad situation.
If I'm in a situation where I'm feeling pushed to communicate and overwhelmed by it, I try to say "I don't want to talk about that." I still shut down but now it's fairly brief.
If I'm in a situation that feels overwhelming, even if I'm not being pushed to communicate, I often go silent, too. I try to solve that by getting to a safe place--usually home--and letting myself come out of it. That generally takes a day or so.
I still haven't found a way to deal with my famly, which pretty much combines both of the above scenarios. It took me five days after Thanksgiving to be able to speak again. |
04-01-2008, 08:37 AM
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Marlene,
Yes i do it often for a few hours of a day and i have times when I am silent for days on end, a few times weeks. I just pull inside and have nothing to say. A head nod takes care of quite a bit in life if need be.
Eagle |
05-01-2008, 05:31 AM
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I also shut down and go mute in times of extreme stress although it is generally for just a few hours. It happens when something has trigerred a traumatic memory. I shut down in therapy often and end up writing about the things I just can't seem to verbalize. It is very frustrating. |
05-01-2008, 10:34 AM
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i am there now - even communicating with this is difficult... |
08-01-2008, 10:14 AM
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I do stuff and shutdown but am still able to verbalize if asked a question. If I am alone with no one to talk to there are days when I just don't want to talk to anyone because my own life seems overwhelming and I often feel as if I have nothing good to say because of the mood i am in so I choose to stay quiet...so I guess this would be overload? I have never gotten to the point where I could not articulate the words but my mind is working so fast when the words come out they are coming out too fast and they are not understandable. |
08-01-2008, 10:32 AM
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I was just triggered HUGE by this poll. As a child when my traumas occured....I wouldn't speak...I remember the youth group leader and the doctors begging me too and I couldn't....never was able to open up about anything....could NOT speak. Maybe it was more of an inital shock...I am not sure. Again...another interesting poll. |
08-01-2008, 01:27 PM
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