Hockey,

I do the exact same thing with the total shut down. It is so strange, I can feel it coming on with the slowing down and then not being to make sense of my own thoughts. My family and friends just tell me to relax and take a break until I come around again.

I think the explanation you gave for why this happens is accurate, although frustrating because it continues to happen to this day.

My musical abilities (playing guitar or singing out loud) are the same, with the sudden stoppage and forced recovery. Guess we just have to learn to be kind to our brains and try not to push to the point of overstimulation to the point that it is counter-productive, but it's so hard to know where that it sometimes. M-i-m