Losing My Words!!

[Tiger]

So much inside, but for some reason when it is overwhelming, I lose my words! Happens at the times I need to get them out the most!! Does anyone else have this? Why does it happen at the moment you could really do with them?? It's almost like totally losing your 'outer voice'!!

 

[Brokensoul88]

Yes I get this often. When I'm in my sessions with T, trying to respond to friends about how I'm coping, talking to my boss. Like you say overwhelming situations. I guess it's to do with the chemicals going to the brain at moments of high anxiety. I find I'm so much better at writing down things than talking about it in the moment. Take your time with things, it will come back to you :)

 

[franciemarnie]

When this happens to me, I believe I have been switched to the primitive brain because that has no access to words. I am out of the neocortex, which has my vocabulary intact. I try to do things then that give me a sense of safety so my primitive brain can relax and I can have access to my thinking mind again.

 

[Jane.l]

I struggle with this too - it's like the 'talking' part just shuts down - In fact more than that I can't even think of the right words . It usually sends me into dissociation in therapy it's very frustrating .

 

[Fadeaway]

I have been complaining to my husband about this. Sometimes he gets impatient because of it and then I panic worse because I can't even express the fact that I need him to give me time to come up with the words.

 

[Jane.l]

It was a real problem when I was married - because my ex thought I was just ignoring him or being difficult . I realise that I do it whenever I feel in anyway threatened or attacked or trying to talk about anything I feel emotionally attached to - trying to talk about our relationship in therapy is a pretty quiet session urgh it's a tough one .

 

[Tiger]

Thank you all for your replies!! I'm still having a struggle with this at the moment!! Inside me, it is bubbling over!! I guess these words will irrupt sooner or later!! (sooner, rather than later, I hope! feel like my head is going to explode!!) :inpain:

 

[WIP_OneDayAtATime]

I feel this way too!! Except, I feel like I'm trying to access the "thinking" part of my brain, and there's a huge road block. I can listen to people...I just can't conversate, or work. I had to leave work today because I couldn't use any problem solving (which is what my job requires), and was really frustrated. It usually happens when I'm stressed or have high anxiety about something. Does anyone know how to get your "thinking brain" back?