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<blockquote data-quote="firehorsewoman" data-source="post: 536531" data-attributes="member: 15804"><p>Hi Bear:</p><p></p><p>I do think that how I react can affect how long the meltdowns last-sometimes. If I am calm they typically don't last as long but not always.</p><p></p><p>Since reacting is just that...reacting....I don't see how it would flip the switch. Also, I am just as curious as to why the flip doesn't get flipped as to when it does. For instance, like today. A "good" day. But good only in the sense that difficult child did not meltdown not in the sense that it was different in any way from our normal routine. </p><p></p><p>I think that most of us over time can identify obvious triggers....for my difficult child things like: a call going against him in sports (this will set him off for hours if not days), losing at a game played with easy child, cancellation of something fun that we had planned...then there are the other triggers that are not reality based-not truly negative events but perceived by difficult child to be: easy child getting "preferential treatment", people "irritating" difficult child, etc....then there are the out of the blue, WTH did that come from? meltdowns. I want to know about those...but more importantly, I want to know about the days when the switch doesn't get flipped at all. What aligned just right today? </p><p></p><p>Because my difficult child had seizures when younger his meltdowns remind me of seizures in many ways. Yes there are triggers...just like seizures (for him heat and being tired seemed to trigger them) but many times they just come out of nowhere...and many times occur in clusters. Is there something similar going on in his brain that manifests as a meltdown?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="firehorsewoman, post: 536531, member: 15804"] Hi Bear: I do think that how I react can affect how long the meltdowns last-sometimes. If I am calm they typically don't last as long but not always. Since reacting is just that...reacting....I don't see how it would flip the switch. Also, I am just as curious as to why the flip doesn't get flipped as to when it does. For instance, like today. A "good" day. But good only in the sense that difficult child did not meltdown not in the sense that it was different in any way from our normal routine. I think that most of us over time can identify obvious triggers....for my difficult child things like: a call going against him in sports (this will set him off for hours if not days), losing at a game played with easy child, cancellation of something fun that we had planned...then there are the other triggers that are not reality based-not truly negative events but perceived by difficult child to be: easy child getting "preferential treatment", people "irritating" difficult child, etc....then there are the out of the blue, WTH did that come from? meltdowns. I want to know about those...but more importantly, I want to know about the days when the switch doesn't get flipped at all. What aligned just right today? Because my difficult child had seizures when younger his meltdowns remind me of seizures in many ways. Yes there are triggers...just like seizures (for him heat and being tired seemed to trigger them) but many times they just come out of nowhere...and many times occur in clusters. Is there something similar going on in his brain that manifests as a meltdown? [/QUOTE]
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