Response Burnout

Every once in awhile this happens to me, but there havent been too many discussions so far where I have started a reply and had to completely give up. sometimes I get going real good and then wonder where I am heading with what I am writing, lol, and I have to rethink some of what I am saying. I have hit the point where it feels almost impossible to find anything new to reply to, though, on those days when i used to reply to 100 or more topics per day.

This happens to me all the time. I'm glad I am not the only one. It drives me crazy. But most of the time it is due to someone talking to me or the dogs barking or the cats knocking something over. I get distracted and then I can't get back into the discussion. The words that were in my head just disappear and I end up not replying. Sometimes I will go back later and try again when it is quiet in here.

Hey join the crowd it happens to me after Im on here for a long time. And I say Im just going to get to this amount and Im done. Well that amount never comes. And then I realize I have burn out. Then off to bed I go.

I sometimes sit and think, but once I start typing, my fingers keep going. I haven't had the experience you detail. However, one that I have had, on more than one occasion, is to finish a long response and go to post it - and the whole thing disappears. I started copying the response before posting it, so that if it happened I'd be able to paste it back again. It didn't happen for a while. Wouldn't you know it, as soon as I stopped copying it, it did it again. Maybe in my case, it is a matter of the computer having a response burn-out. I think my mind must work on the old saying "I don't boil my cabbages twice" because I have never been able to re-do a response I've lost.

I've had that a few times. Sometimes I've deleted my post and then not bothered replying at all. I actually spent ten minutes today trying to think of a reply for someone's post. I had the words in my head and the minute I went to type they just vanished.

I have felt the same way . I have thought of some great answers I would like to give and then whey I go to put them down I can't figure out how I would like to word it . I start something and then backspace when I think of something better and try to put this down . Hate when I get like that . Because when I am fianlly done it never comes out sounding the way I meant it or not sounding as good as I wanted it to .

yeah you are right, it happens to me too, i like the topic and love to respond but dont have a good words to express my real feelings about the topic so sometimes i ended up on not anwering leaved it for next time but the leaves on my mind.

Yes I have had this to a few times lol and it is very annoying I have to say but I guess most of us get this at some stage time to have a break

i do this alot as well, although i havent posted to nearly as many as you it still happens. And a lot of time i also start reading through a lot of other peoples discussions and realize that everything i would have said has already been said so i dont bother, also i am finding im opting out of a lot of discussions that are very controversial because i get sick of the way most of them are just reduced to name calling games instead of intelligent conversation

I tend to be able to respond easily enough but I get "Discussion Burnout". I run out of things to discuss sometimes. Then all of sudden I get tons of other things that comes all at once to talk about! lol

LOL I can Identify with that tonight. I had a goal in mind to get "x" amount of responses done because I am rather behind. But other than a couple that I was terribly long winded on, I am rather stuck tonight. Probably a sign that I need to quit for tonight. But I do feel your pain. Have a good evening I anxiously await your all well written discussions and responses. Keep up the good work.

Butterfly, I would like to say I understand, but I have no idea of what you mean. I am totally out of words as to what to reply. I have thought and thought and thought and I just can't come up with the right words to help you through this. I know that if it weren't so late and if I weren't so tired, the ideas and words would be there. I do know what you mean in a round about way; but it is just so difficult to state it in a transitory manner that makes any sense at all. I am sorry that I couldn't make myself any more clear on this subjet. ~Donna

Its like writers block, you get it once in a while. Just take a break and do something else for awhile. Eventually it will pass and you'll be typing away on mylot again as usual.

I have suffered from this also. Sometimes i just can't think of the right thing to say and other time with certain users they have a very good topic but i feel to dumb to answer because they seem to be really smart and i think they would hate my response. I dont know all i can do is try.

I agree! This happens and when it does, it is time to do something completely different. I find the same thing happens with discussions. I have days at a time when I am in a discussion desert. It is a message from our brain telling us that it is time to exercise it in another way, usually something 'mindless' and relaxing, such as ironing, listening to music, gardening, painting ... something that uses the right side of the brain.

LOL! I know that feeling well!What my mind is trying to say and how it shows on the comp are two different things!I like to call it a brain freeze with hopes of it warming up within a few minutes.Sometimes it seems to last a L O N G time.

I think most of us get Response Burnout from time to time, Another problem I have is how to word a reply when its already been replied to in the way that i would have worded it if I had got there first. Thats when I have another blank moment. I dont like my replys to sond the same as everyone elses.

I find myself trying to respond to a discussion and I get totally confused about the whole thing. Then I sit, and then I think, what am I going to write. Sometimes I come up with something,then type it down.I look it over for typos and find that it is not at all what I wanted to write,so I then delete the whole thing and start again.

I think that if i can't find the right words or i can't think of a good response to a discussion i just move past it and go on to the next discussion, that way i won't get bored and i keep moving along, without wasting a lot of time overthinking something that might not even ever be read! i read all my discussion responses but i know there must be some people out there that dont read them.

now that's a new illness i can relate to now..i can close my eyes and type lol..i am reaching that noe=w..so i am going to rest..don;'t worry my friends ..i will respond to all your posts when i am refreshed early in the morning with pluses ++++++++ to boot..nite nite xxxx