Hard for you to pinpoint the cause of a meltdown sometimes?

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I usually can pinpoint exactly what is triggering my overload/meltdown and fix it, but last night, I was out at the store and we were picking up stuff to make for dinner.... Maybe i was hungry? I am not quite sure.

I started getting agitated/frustrated/overloaded til the point of me nearly lashing out.. but i could feel the swell of these feelings... so...To calm myself down, I put my jacket on and put the hood up.(my jacket is like a security blanket for me.. feels like a shield between me and others..)

Thankfully, my fiance noticed that behavior and asked if I was feeling "icky." So he gave me quiet time....Crisis averted.


Do you sometimes find it hard to realize the cause of the meltdown?

Sometimes. Often I can say, 'that meltdown was because... I missed the bus (for example)' but lately I have been having meltdowns randomly. I do sort of know what is causing them, but no one specific thing is making them happen, it is a whole pile of stress that I have been carrying around for ages

I often have meltdowns in (or after I've left) supermarkets. I think it is a sensory thing because the lights, sounds, smells and random strangers bashing trollies into you gets too much.

Oh, my! That never crossed my mind! I always just assume it's the physical things around me..............

I do have a lot of stress lately...I think that could have been it, actually. I got new job duties at work, but the duties haven't been defined to me yet.. so i don't know what I am supposed to do at all... but im definitely in charge of the job duties.... (and my baby is due feb 1, so that's more stressssssss)

I have been feeling on the edge since i got the new job my goodness...This is good news... glad i posted.. now i know what it is probably...

Nice catch!

In my own case, I occasionally get some of the same symptoms from low blood sugar, and there have been times when I have already begun shaking so badly by the time I realized what was going on that I could barely get an orange peeled and eaten.

Nope, I'm pretty good at pinpointing it.

I didn't want to admit to myself that last night the fact my mum was at home instead of working was giving me a meltdown.

A lot of stress overtime can result in a hugegantic meltdown.

I also have a low blood sugar problem too. I bellow 'I'M HUNGRY!' when I'm on the verge of a meltdown.

I have blood sugar problems. I don't bellow I'm hungry though because for some reason, maybe I'm hyposensitive to the pain in my stomach... I don't feel hungry when I am. I have to carry gluco-tabs around with me in case I start acting weird! Staff who work with me have to learn the signs of a hypo and tell me to take the gluco tab. The symptoms with me are sudden lethargy, grumpiness, snappiness, severe and obvious shaking, pale face, swaying (more than usual!) and sometimes falling over. I haven't got diabetes so no one knows why I get this.

I can usually tell. Occasionally I have no idea, although I can identify aggravating factors. Of course, I didn't know they were meltdowns until recently, not that I loved them and didn't notice before.