Never had a meltdown

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I don't think I've ever had a meltdown. I get so depressed or angry I'm debilitated (demoralized) but I don't think I've had a "melt down." What does it supposed to look like/ feel like?

Usually it means that you get so overwhelmed, you start crying, throwing things, hitting people, bashing your head into the wall, etc. without any control over your behaviour.

You might only experience 'shut downs' (when your brain 'turns off', stops working correctly, etc. due to being overwhelmed).

Same here - never yet lost control. Most likely reason is that Mum beat it out of me......I can still remember her thumping me while yelling that she was NOT going to stand for my tantrums. I was so young that I didn't even know what she was talking about, never heard the word "tantrum" before. Or is meltdown a thing that can't be knocked out of a person?

I do blank out sometimes though, but I'm very good at hiding it - I just nod and pretend that I've understood, and get the missed info from another source later, or just make an intelligent guess.

I never 'melted down' but in high school, i would shut down every single day both in algebra and art. i took algebra one all four years, by the end of senior year, i understood just enough to pass with a 71, 70 being the failure threshold. Art was a similar story, passed with a 72, mostly because the teacher did not want me to stay back just because of art.

I dont 'shut down' now. I work with the public and i know i am not allowed to shut down nor am i allowed to show any aspie traits, i bottle everything up until i get home, then i close the blinds, shut off the lights and blast the music for a while. If i work the 7-3 shift, i will get home and stay there, as opposed to a day off, in which i am never home.

Yeah, maybe I have had melt downs, but I don't lose control. It's more a feeling of desperation and hopelessness for me, like "why bother..."

I do surprisingly well at concealing anxiety and such, usually whenever I do lose it I just feel like falling to the ground and giving up. On life and everything else.

I did have a meltdown in the psych ward, but combine Dysfunctional parenting, Asperger's - especially in a psych ward situation, Suicidal Depression, and Everything else, I was a complete wreck, and anyone else would be too.

Thank you for the definition, I was wondering what a meltdown was.

It seems that I used to have them when I was younger, until I turned 14 I think, then they became more rare as I learned to control myself to feel better.
I remember that I had burst of anger every month when I was 11, it made people laugh because nothing justified the intensity of my anger at the time but I felt that it was "too much to stand", I started to yell at everyone (and when I was a child I hit people but I did not always remember it after) and then cried and kept yelling. I never really bashed my head into a wall but I would sometimes throw things.

What is funny is that my father have a tendency to have "controled meltdown", he just yells and throw things but calm himself quickly, and he sure has some autistic traits though not that much.

I wonder if it is common among children and young teenager, I sure was the only one who acted that way but I know some impulsive people and I thought these "meltdowns" might be an impulsive act in people who aren't impulsive.

Do you have shutdowns instead?--you know, the kind of thing where you lose most of your higher-level mental abilities, and just kind of sit there, zoned out and unable to move or talk? 'Cause when my meltdowns became less frequent, I ended up having shutdowns more often. I think they're two things of the same breed.

Consider yourselves either really tough, or very lucky.

If there was ever any conflict when I was little I would just go into my bedroom, shut the door, curl up in my bed and weep it out, didn't even try to talk it out with my parents or any of that. Guess that classifies as a shutdown.

Lucky. I don't have them often but Ive had a couple of times when I'm screaming at people, hitting the wall etc... usually due to stress. I realize that when I'm doing this I am being a jerk, but usually don't have any control over it. Generally I have to hope that a sincere apology later will make up for it. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes no.

Lucky. I don't have them often but Ive had a couple of times when I'm screaming at people, hitting the wall etc... usually due to stress. I realize that when I'm doing this I am being a jerk, but usually don't have any control over it. Generally I have to hope that a sincere apology later will make up for it. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes no.

I cry mainly, but the amount of time I can't control myself is pretty short.