LymeMomToo,I noticed you mentioned suicidal and Zoloft.
Just wanted to let you know that anti depressants depressed me. Thoughts of how I could kill myself went away when I stopped the anti depressants. Srange, but true.
I have tried them several times and several kinds throughout this lyme journey.
Marian,
I was teaching an anger managment class before getting the bug. I needed my own class after battling this disease.
I had to step outside at a dentist office when I first started battling this due to anger that I hadn't never experienced before.
I had to break down the problem....and there were many.
1. I couldn't read the form and fill it out.
2. I had pushed myself just walking into the office and was totally drained.
3. There were too many people in the office and this affected me. (As a teacher, I always looked to see if the classroom management problem was noise or movement) In this case the problem was both at the dentist office. A TV was in the waiting room. There was lots of activity in the waiting room.
4. Temperature also affects me and it was very hot that day.
Since then, I have noticed that I need to stay quiet and to myself for the most part.
There are times when I am strong enough to be around people but those are few and far between.
I recalled one of my students giving himself time out. He would go sit outside the classroom door.
I now understand why he did that. I had given him too much information to process too fast and he needed to take a break.
It was quiet outside the door and there wasn't any movement or information to process.
I thought it was pretty cool that he had found a way to keep the frustration level from over flowing at the time. I could see he was getting frustrated and angry. But, until I had lyme....I didn't understand it.
He was deaf. I was signing and speaking as I taught the lessons. His obstacle was a little different to overcome. But, I certainly think of him now when I give myself time out.
I also have to take it slow and easy. I can no longer think 100 things at once or do several things at once.
I also have had to ask people to stop talking as I could no longer take in what they were saying. This one is difficult to explain. But, if they continue to talk...it is really hard on me. I have no patience. And don't quit understand why. I told one person it was as if she was hitting me over the head with each word for lack of a better way to explain it or understand it.
I also will close my eyes to help me take in what people are saying when my resources are that low. Cutting out as my as possible that my body has to deal with seems to help.
If they speak slower. It sometimes help. The sound of their voice can also been an obstacle. Some voices are easier to listen to than others.
Light is a factor at times also.
As a child, I would think this would be hard to figure out.
I was doing well. Went to a restaurant with a couple of other people and had to remove myself from the restaurant. Once I got to a quiet place outside of the restaurant, my body started to recover. But, it took time.
The movement and the noise in the restaurant was too much. The lady in back of me had a voice that wasn't working for me. The lady in front of me also was talking. The background noise in general was too much. The movement of people in the restaurant.
I did feel the anger level rising. I went outside, laid on down, closed my eyes and I started to feel human again after a while.
I don't know what is going on in the body at this time, but it certainly can't deal with what is going on with the outside stimuli. It shuts down.
This was just one time out of about 8 times of eating at this restaurant.
I just chalked it up to be too low on reserves that day to eat.
I hope this helps.