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Cyclothymia Thought Blocking Word Finding

Posted by david1717 on September 4, 2002, at 23:10:46

Hi Gang:

Sorry to post a non-pharmaceutical question here, but I have received some very insightful and helpful comments on this side. Quick question, Cyclothymia and the occurrence of thought blocking and word finding. I go through this ordeal (I have it now so please bear with my language skills)
About once a month for a 2 or 3 day period. Of course, its incredibly disruptive. I find that analogies are impossible to understand, I cannot spell, I don’t understand sentence syntax nor can I form a proper sentence. For instance, in using business email, I have been recently spelling hello as “hellow.” It looks right to me as I am currently viewing it but intellectually I know its wrong. I mean I went to Law School and I know I can spell hello. I am having an incredulously hard time getting through this email. Must have made 35 corrections to this point. So before I can’t write at all…here is what I feel during these periods. I can’t summon my thoughts, I can’t find words or spell or remember phone numbers that I have known for years, everything becomes so confusing and I become forgetful and misplace items and forget conversations. Also, at times but its rare there is an intermittent (Took me about 30 seconds to get that word, I kept writing intimate, looked right but I knew it was wrong) sense of depersonalization. I understand reality but its like looking through colored glass…you can still see but things are a little bit distorted. Like having a few drinks.

I just want to hear someone else who is cyclothemic say they have been through the same thing. I would greatly appreciate any similar experiences so I can feel like this is normal, at least for the clclothemic. Please remember that this has happened my whole life (so its not organic or drugs) because when the cycle shifts, I’ll be able to read at an accelerated rate, think and understand in profound clarity, write in poetic verse or legalese, remember new numbers without writing them down…etc.

Sorry about the poor writing, Thanks for listening,..

David


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