SleepyCatten<p>One of the less-than-fun quirks of our very-neurospicy, migraine-prone mind is that we occasionally get overwhelmed / overloaded and our speech centre rather rapidly starts struggling, crashes, and then shuts down for a while, until it can apparently do some maintenance and reboot itself slowly. </p><p>We had the "joy" of one of these this evening 😑 It lasted several hours, but has just shown signs of ending as we're heading to bed. </p><p>For anyone who's never experienced anything like this, imagine being able to think and hear words and sentences in your head, but gradually finding it harder and harder to push words out of your mouth, until eventually you can at most make only non-verbal sounds orn noises. For us, it feels like figuratively wading through thick syrup or molasses, or trying to escape quicksand.</p><p>We've learnt to stop trying to speak during one of these shutdowns, as trying to do so is frustrating, exhausting, and ultimately futile. </p><p>We suspect that our very occasional verbal shutdowns may be, at least in part, be an unusual type of migraine with aura, as taking ibuprofen lysine has, in the past, helped us recover sooner. The frequency of verbal shutdowns reduced significantly once we started taking daily supplements that have been shown to help prevent migraines.</p><p>Rest and time are ultimately our tried and tested methods if we're at home. </p><p>If we'd have had enough mental bandwidth left earlier, we might have remembered to take a sumatriptan to ease the symptoms, but our mind was being an unfocused, tired little fraggle this evening, so the idea eluded us until just now 🤦♀️</p><p>On a positive note, it's always lovely to find yourself able to say words out loud again as you start to come out the other side 🥰</p><p><a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/migraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migraine</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/MigraineWithAura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MigraineWithAura</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/neurospicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurospicy</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuDHD</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/VerbalShutdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VerbalShutdown</span></a> <a href="https://cultofshiv.wtf/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a></p>