meltdowns and emotional overload

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Hi I have a question.

So an hour ago I had a conversation with my partner in which she said that I 'snap down her throat'.

I got really confused by what she meant. Every time I repeated the phrase I got a weird image in my head and it made me extremely distressed. I lost the capacity to speak properly, started hitting the table and even screamed twice. It didn't tip over into 'full blown' meltdown, but it was very weird. It was like I got stuck on this phrase and repeating it just made me incredibly angry.

I think it was a combination of not being able to understand, but also the newness of the metaphor/phrase and the intensity of the picture in my head.

I feel kinda like a freak.

Has anything like that ever happened to you?
Can communication problems/emotional overload send you into meltdown/shutdown?

Yes, All the time. I get headbanging meltdowns especially from miscommunication stress and overload.