Loss of Motor Control

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Over the last couple of days my motor skills have really deteriorated. Things I used to be able to do be able to do without thinking I know have to concentrate hard on. Even things like walking and using silverware are really difficult. It's kind of frightening because what if it continues to deteriorate to the point where i lose the ability to walk. My hands feel different they feel sluggish and alien. Like using your non-dominant hand but like 5x worse and with your dominate hand. Anyone else experience anything like this? If so any advice for dealing with this? I don't know what to about it.

This sounds similar to what I have been going through with autistic burnout. It sort of makes you regress to the point where everyday tasks become much more difficult to accomplish.

If so, I just learned about this condition recently and am still working my way out of it.

Somehow you need to relax to calm yourself down. I do some breathing exercises that help me. Though I still need to learn more about it myself or I would have more/better advice.

Hopefully a member with more knowledge will reply. Good luck.

I experienced it in the last burnout and after it. I actually experienced it in the last few burnouts but to a lesser degree, as each burnout that hit me, hit me worse then the one I had before.
I found after a few weeks it partially comes back enough not to notice so much (I call the experience feeling "Fragile" and it effected my balance and ability to walk).
Take it easy.
I have found that I hit burnout just before early september and pushed through to see my last few days in work (Which made it much worse), and I still have difficulties using my hands trying to do intricate things and also my eyesight for reading etc has been effected, so it can take ages. I seem to get issues wen stressed more. When too many things are going on which I can't cope with... And sadly I have no control over what other family members do... The more going on the more stressed I get.
Anyway. What I will say is recovery is possible, but it takes ages...
If I could go with my Mum and we can relax without the many goings on (My parents moved to the cou tryside to have a quiet life, but one brother has lots of kids so there are many here when he visits, and he comes in the morning and goes in the evening, and youngest brother is very sociable and even now he is entertaining his workmates and friends in the field.
I could not cope with city life!
But anyway.... Yes, recovery is possible and I seem to loose motor skills when I am wound up and stressed.
I get partial shutdowns when I can't cope with stress or change, and if I can't reach quiet and shaded area when in a partial shutdown it turns i to a full shutdown. Partial shutdowns can loose balance and co-9rdination. Full shutdowns are like being in a coma not being able to see or hear, and being paralized in that I can hardly move my body if at all (Body goes like jelly all floppy) and yet I am concious. In themselves they don't last too long BUT once I have had one I am very likely to have another if I am not able to remove myself from stress.
It is annoying because I am likely to get a full shutdown due to a stress overload due to the enviroment, so I am on the ground not able to remove myself from the enviroment and when I start to recover I may crawl a few feet to try to remove myself but the effort to do that in the same enviroment pushes me into another shutdown... And these shutdowns are energy sapping so there comes a point where I get the shakes and go clammy and even if the enviroment is now quiet, I have no strength without an energy packed food input.