Anyone else get dizzy after talking?

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Hi Everyone,

I usually get dizzy after I've had a conversation for about a half an hour. I thought I might be breathing in too much but deep and/or measured breathing during the conversation doesn't seem to change anything. It seems to happen when the conversation involves thinking about communication issues (nonverbal signals, avoiding saying something offensive, etc.) and not when I'm talking with someone I am very comfortable with (like my husband).

Does anyone else get this? I have done searches on the forum and not found much. My guess is it's anxiety, but it could also be overload I suppose, from too much going on.

Anyway, any thoughts would be welcome!

YES!! I get dizzy during and after conversations!

It's not every time, every conversation or anything. It's usually if I feel some level of stress with that conversation or that person, or because it's lasting too long and I haven't found a way to extricate myself, or it was unexpected and I just wanted quiet time alone.

And yes, I don't seem to experience it when I'm with someone whom over time I've become comfortable with.

Stress seems to be the element that causes me to start feeling faint and dizzy. I'm not certain what is happening to my body or breathing -- usually I'm feeling so faint that I don't have the presence of mind to take note of what my breathing is doing or why I'm getting faint.

But yes this happens to me.

I'm not sure it would come up from a site search, but I know that some of us have mentioned this in other threads, but the threads themselves were about a different topic, not that specific one. The topics may have been about social anxiety generally, and then I know I for one mentioned that one of the things that happen is I get faint.

Yes, especially when I've had to concentrate hard on nonverbal signals or if someone insists on making a lot of eye contact, which makes my head head physically hurt. I think my brain has to go into overdrive to keep up with the conversation and also with all the nonverbal signals and afterwards I feel a little ill. It happens more with people I don't know as well or am unsure of I think.

Thanks very much -- I did some more searches with "faint" as a keyword and found some useful things.

It sounds like I just need to slow down the conversation somehow so I have less to deal with at once. That's tough to do in the moment with social anxiety kicking in. :/

Not dizzy, but definitely drained. After too long trying to focus on conversation, my brain just shuts down.

Sometimes, but it's from not getting enough O2.