Stress induced chain reaction while source of stress is gone

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Hello,

I don't know whether this is autism or schizophrenia related. Maybe both. I don't know.
So here is the issue. When I get stressed, like when I'm the front passenger and my mother does a minor (or major) driving mistake, I get slightly stressed or agitated or whatever. Or maybe when she takes the wrong route and drives towards nowhere although I keep telling her we are going to "end up in china" or whatever.
So basically I get mildly agitated. But my mind won't stop getting more and MORE agitated, although the source of stress is totally over.
So like we are where we wanted to get to, or there are no more driving mistakes by my mother.Or we are actually at home.
I keep getting nuttier and nuttier, angry, agitated, crazy.
It's like a chain reaction in the brain. I don't even really think of the stress situation or go on ruminating or talking about it. I'm just sitting and my mind literally falls apart slowly. And at the end I'm completely useless. I won't do anything but I look angry as hell and totally dumb and dement. It's horrible.
What could this be? can you relate? Autism or Schizophrenia?

I also easily get tensed by the traffic here (sometimes I truly wonder how they got their licenses if they cut you off, drive way too close to you and things like that) and small mistakes made by the driver of the car I am in or lack of attention and am quick to warn whoever is driving the car I'm in. However, it doesn't cause a chain reaction in me.

There is one person who is much more like what you have described though although only in exactly the situation you mentioned:
My mother. She gets heavily stressed out the more time she spends in the car, she can't stand it at all and it just worsens the longer the ride and after it is over, she is much more sensitive and still stressed out for a certain period of time.
We all suspect she also has Aspergers like I do, she even said so herself that she would put herself on the spectrum. However, she considers herself A) too old for a diagnosis and B) doesn't see a point in getting one, so the suspicion is not officially confirmed.

Maybe it's a kind of overwhelming overload- or meltdown-like thing? The only comparable example I know is actually my mother, but as I mentioned she calms down after a while, so when she is removed from the situation associated with the source of stress, there are no problems.

I couldn't help thinking of anxiety triggering the fight-or-flight response, while reading the first part.
And when the fear starts to feed on the fear itself, then it gets worse and worse. <--Can you recognize this

Hmm... Could this be some sort of meltdown then?

Yes it is some sort of meltdown I suppose. But it creaps slowly on me. I'm still wondering whether this is asperger's or schizophrenia as docs are still arguing which one I have and they say I can't have both.

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she nailed it

Yep it's a weird feeling