Large Crowd

When I was at the carnival this week and it was crowded with so many people where I'd never been around that many people before I think I went catatonic because I went into a stupor and kept zoning out staring at the crowds and such and couldn't focus or anything else.  People would talk to me and I couldn't focus on them.  I don't do good around large crowds and this was way more than I'd ever been around before.  Is this a symptom of my mental illness or just part of my personality?

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Also, does anyone else experience problems like this?

[ILADVOCATE]

Yes that could be what you describe. I do experience it but its from a difference cause. Best just to inform your psychiatrist and think if it started recently in reaction to stressful events such as you have been mentioning or before then.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

Not sure if it would of happened before then or not because I'd never been around that many people.  I never did good around large crowds however and always tried my best to avoid them.  I will let my psychiatrist know at any rate as I have an appointment with him coming up.

[Alex_X_18]

I can relate, it happens to me in crowds (particualy in grocery stores as well)....sometimes I don't due well in crowded places when I'm going through periods of heavy anxiety or I get overstimulated due to too much noise...As for what to due to combat it, I'm not sure wish I knew myself....luckily for me it only happens rarely when my moods are really unstable.

[run4you]

That happens to me...
In my case, I only figured out my problem after my son was diagnosed as autistic and started having the same problems I do. Too much going on = overload = shut down.