Editing because I think my original wording was misleading or missing key elements:
My overall ability to communicate seems to rise and fall in some sort of unpredictable cycle.
There are periods when it's much easier to talk with people, use the phone, send email etc. These things are always a little difficult, but at certain times it is an obstacle I can overcome by force of will.
At other times its very hard, the email I have to send at work becomes extremely terse, or I just don't send it. I can barely use the phone at all and let incoming calls go into voicemail. I find myself sitting silently through gatherings of people--even people I am very comfortable with, and even when I have things that I could or should add to the conversation, I can't. This is true at work, at home--in all situations.
I don't understand it and when people ask what's going on, I have no explanation.
I suspect that it has something to do with being overstimulated, since there may be some correlation with periods of very intense work. It's almost as if having decided to focus on getting a certain job done, I don't have anything left for any other kind of communication.
Does anyone else have this kind of thing?
29 Jun 2013, 7:08 am
