Does Anyone Ever Get The Feeling Of Saying What You Want To Say But Can't?

[WillowMarie]

I don't know if this kind of thing happens to you or if this is what you're talking about but for decades I unknowingly dissociated in conversations if the other person was being unkind or angry or cruel, or if there were certain subject matters brought up. Later, when I was back to real time, real space I'd think back to the conversation and think - OMG! Why didn't I respond in this way?

I can totally relate to this. I have a really hard time staying present in arguments and also think of what the person said afterward and get upset with not responding with how I wanted. Or sometimes, I have a response I want to make, but it just doesn't come out of my mouth.

My brain also likes to go super quiet and I can't even think clearly or form sentences.

 

[Britt.f7]

Yes. Definitely I have issues with this. My chronic illness makes it worse at times and I swear I sound like I've been drinking when I haven't. I use to be an English major(never graduated) and I feel so embarrassed when I fumble at words.

Right now I am finding difficulty in writing. I have a blog I should be writing in but I am having a very difficult time getting it out on paper what is floating in my head. I can't even talk about it and clear it up that way so that I can write. It's not a tough subject. I just feel my brain just shuts down.

I have also had conversations that I don't even remember the moment I walk away.

 

[Joanne47]

Wow, this is so what I experience. I was sitting in my T office yesterday with all these things I wanted and needed to say, and nothing would come. I couldn't say any of it. If he would ask me a question, my mind would go completely blank. I was so frustrated with myself.

I feel like there are emotions I need to bring up and process, but when I try to grasp them, they just slip away. Meanwhile the pressure and anxiety of feeling all these things that are floating around in my head is just building and I can't release it.

@Britt.f7 I even tried to explain it to my husband this morning and couldn't find the words to make sense of it. His response was, "What do you mean you can't put it into words? You're an English major. That's what you do!"