Hey, bro, there's a term for it!
Last week, during my annual physical, I brought up the fact that over the last two or three months I have been "losing" normal words in conversation. You know, I'll be talking to someone and not be able to get a word like "doghouse" to make its way to my mouth. I can see the image of a doghouse in my head, I can describe in ornate detail what one looks like. I can tell you where the last one we had was situated in the yard. I just can't say "doghouse" at that moment.
It gets sort of frustrating, especially for one who has loved the sound of his own voice as much as I have over the years. It doesn't happen often to me. It isn't anything I have been able to pattern or predict.
But it is irritating. And apparently not that uncommon. Dr. Katie even mentioned the term.
"We call that 'expressive aphasia'," she said when I told her. "It is most likely nothing. Stress can bring it on. How has your stress level been?"
Well, Doc, other than LOSING MY MIND, things are peachy!!
I told her I have no idea, I bury stress and don't pay attention to it.
"We'll watch it for 6 months or so and see if it doesn't get better. Expressive Aphasia can be a sign of nothing. Or it can be a sign of something serious."
Great bedside manner, there, Doc. Gimme 6 months to worry....
:-)
It gets sort of frustrating, especially for one who has loved the sound of his own voice as much as I have over the years. It doesn't happen often to me. It isn't anything I have been able to pattern or predict.
But it is irritating. And apparently not that uncommon. Dr. Katie even mentioned the term.
"We call that 'expressive aphasia'," she said when I told her. "It is most likely nothing. Stress can bring it on. How has your stress level been?"
Well, Doc, other than LOSING MY MIND, things are peachy!!
I told her I have no idea, I bury stress and don't pay attention to it.
"We'll watch it for 6 months or so and see if it doesn't get better. Expressive Aphasia can be a sign of nothing. Or it can be a sign of something serious."
Great bedside manner, there, Doc. Gimme 6 months to worry....
:-)
posted by Kurt at 4:27 PM
3 Comments:
And you'll be able to express that "non-anxiety" very coherently. After all, it's a feeling, not a concrete entity. Like a, like a, like a, oh crap, just pull the word off my tongue, we can both see it right there in my brain!
dude, i'm sorry to say but your brain STILL looks empty to me!
Without vision a people perish...
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