Black outs?

Hi there,

I just sort of want to know if anyone else experience any sort of black outs?
Almost always when I am telling a story I black out and don´t know where in the story I was. It can happen several times after each other and sometimes I usually have to wait quite a while to "find my way back". Its tiering and really embarrassing but I am sure it has to do with the fact that so much stuff is going on in my head.

Anyone recognice this?

sometimes i can't remember what im doing or thinking about. it sudden and usually not significant things...just like, ill get and walk for a couple of seconds then stop and wonder what i am even doing. or ill read a chapter in a book and not remember a thing i read. it doesnt usually happen when im talking though, but i totally understand the feeling.

Hi,

Yeah, I also experience it when I am like if Iam going to go get something in another room and when I get there I cant even begin to remember what I was going to do there. Also I am very absent minded and forget things easily. Its a pain in the a##, really.

Anyway, its good to hear your not alone.

The same thing happens to me, it's kinda embarassing because it can be mid - conversation and you have to wait for it to pass or grab onto something to keep from falling down.

Yeah, its embarressing. How do you mean fall down? Do you get dizzy?

As a kid, I used to faint a lot! I have always been OCD and had a problem with anxiety. I was molested sexually, but it was not physically painful, it was emotionally painful.
I was scared of my father the molester. Could this fainting problem be emoitonally related? I remember being scared a lot as a kid!

I have also been diagnosed Post-traumatic stress disorder(chronic). Can this also cause fainting?

Hi there,

I am sorry to hear what you have been through. I dont know but I would not think it was strange if you fainting a lot was connected to your fear, I am pretty sure that would be a connection.

Tace care now, Lovisa.

I think that the poor short-term memory and black-outs are directly related to too much happening in the mind at any one time. Stress and anxiety would probably be at play on the side too.


I only experience black-outs when I am out walking through the city (Dublin, Ireland). I could be walking and then suddenly stop, forget where I am and what I'm doing... ...and then everything returns about two seconds later.


I guess these black-outs could be seen as being like a head-rush. Do ye get me? During a head-rush you get up too fast. During a black-out we are thinking (Obsessing) too fast.


yfguitarist, I also sometimes nearly fall down during a black-out. I never have but I just stumble. Again, it's probably just the brain going into overdrive. The central-thoughts in your head are stealing all the energy and starving other parts of the brain responsible for regular functions.


... ...It's the psychological version of 'tripping-up'.

What does "tripping up" mean?

justlovisa wrote:Yeah, its embarressing. How do you mean fall down? Do you get dizzy?

No, I just can't see and I start shaking and lose control of my legs. I guess they're head rushes since they're when I stand up, but I never see them happen to anyone else the way they happen to me.