[ SECRET POST #6053 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6053 ⌋

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[Evan and Kaitlyn/Orphan Black]



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[Arknights; art by Gloomspiral]



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disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[(Anonymous)]

Does anyone else go through moods or phases where they just...don't have words? My brain is still chugging along like normal, lots of narratives and random thoughts and feelings and general chaos as normal, but it's like there's a disconnect between my brain and mouth and I just either cannot make myself talk aloud or I can't make the chaos in my brain form into coherent streamlined thoughts to express. It's a toss up of just feeling like talking takes up too much effort, or feeling like I literally cannot talk.

Lately this has extended to written/typed words as well. I have all these thoughts and impulses of things to write but my body just...doesn't do it. I'm having a hard time putting this into words, so I'm hoping someone maybe experiences something similar and can understand what I'm trying to say.

Re: disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[philstar22]

When I'm really sleepy, yes. When I'm exhausted I just can't pull words.

Re: disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, same. That's the number one sign for me that I didn't get enough sleep the previous night.

Re: disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on how severe this is and whether it's a long-term pattern, but you might find the search term 'selective mutism' helpful. IDK why diagnostic stuff called it something that makes it sound like people are making a choice about the thing when they very much aren't, but still. I guess because from the point of view of a clinician, the person isn't equally unable to talk in all situations, with everyone.

If I were you, I would skip all the stuff where specialists talk about trying to force underage patients to power through their mental illness and look for where people who have this problem are putting the condition in their own words. The fact that it often doesn't automatically translate into a writing block, along with a speaking block, though? Only sometimes? Pretty characteristic.

Re: disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes, yes. In my case it's either fatigue or trauma, when it's not fatigue from trauma. Though it affects more my talking, but I admit sometimes I'm thinking too fast and I skip whole words while typing. But while talking it just feels like I run out of fucks or I overthink things and freeze, that is, when I'm not just way too tired to muster up something to say.

Re: disconnect between brain and talking? idek

[meadowphoenix]

for me it doesn't have anything to do with being tired, it's just that if my mind is the signal and my mouth/hands to type is/are the receiver, the line between them has been cut. the signals are firing but they're simply not making it across the nerve gap.

another way i experience it with speech is that i "know" that hearing myself talk will push me over the edge into sensory overload and so my brain simply won't.

ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

"the line has been cut" is exactly it. You have managed to put it into words and I thank you!