Sent Home From Work

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Today I got sent home from work early as I was really stressed out reason I can't say really. But everyone noticed I was not behaving normal. I wasn't talking properly. I started walking like I was drunk and I had a mild headache. The talking problem worried me a bit sentences came strange. It got to the point where I sounded like I had no emotion in me and it got to the point where I just nodded and responed by either saying yes or no. Then suddenly I asked to go home I didn't want to be with anyone I sat quietly and the people around me talking just irritated me. I wanted to tell them to Shut Up. Is this a normal thing?

Your not taking any combination of drugs are you? I had serotonin syndrome before and got very happy followed by drunk like and slurred speech. Then felt as my air way become highly constricted. (paxil + low dose of moclobemide = death potential).

Well, I'm only in high school so maybe the seriousness of being sent home from work is lost on me. However, I've had times like this. Esspecially music class where I almost never speak. It gets very noisy, and it becomes mentally distracting. All I can hear is instruments playing, people talking too loud, and way to many things to look at. It can get confusing, I get headaches, and sometimes I become a total mute. This happens in other classes, sometimes my brain feels like it's muddled in all the wrong ways. There have been times when the stress became so overwhelming I just pretended to be sick and left. Even if the assignments we got were easy, the mental strain is just too overwhelming at that time.

I'm not on any medication at all. It was one of the more serious moments when I got my Bono style sunglasses out. This time I wasn't playing around. This time I really needed them

It sounds like you might have had a 'meltdown' from either sensory overload, or social overload, or a bit of both.
It could also be triggered by stress or panic.

When I have overload, I can become (involuntarily) non-verbal for a time.

like six months ago, i wanted to say some word, but completely different one came out. i felt like drunk and was physically weak. i thought it was a lack of water or sugar or something and it never happened again, so i didn't worry. fortunately i was only with friends so it wasn't so bad. did it happen to you before already?

This happened to me once although I was on strong (prescribed) drugs at the time and had a fairly severe illness

I get it frequently. I've noticed it more in the last 2 years. First time I had it or been aware was about three days after I got diagnosed I was where I use to work and was Superdrug. I had to supervise a work experience boy and that day I went like it. I have had frequent since.

I get that often. I put it down to my brain just shutting from what I guess is an overload. There is nothing I can do and I just retreat into the silence (my room, a park bench...) and just sit quietly and think about nothing.

I do this a LOT, as there are always a million things going on around me it seems (schedules, routines, things coming up unexpectedly, etc.), and I just figure it's my brain shutting off temporarily-going on vacation until I can regroup. When it happens, I'll just nod yes to everything asked of me, and rarely hear what anyone is actually saying. I prefer to be alone when it happens as well, but that rarely is an option-it usually takes me half an hour to "regroup" and be able to think clearly again. I figure it's a "meltdown", as nothing else really makes sense to explain it. I often zone out when it happens as well, and when I come out of it, I find myself rocking back and forth or tapping my fingers uncontrollably.