Staring into Space

[paranoid_cataclysm]

How many of you end up staring into space randomly for seemingly no reason in the middle of something you're doing either knowingly or unknowingly and does anyone know scientific reasoning for this?

[jpruitt32]

.  I'm new to this community.  I was diagnosed with being bipolar 1 a few years ago when I was 29.  The symptoms were always there, but I didn't realize I had such a problem till I got older.  Anyway, the very same thing happens to me too!  I just stumbled across this page a few minutes ago and I was like holly **** this happens to other people!  I actually have been getting worse with those episodes the older I get.  I'm 32 now.  I have a problem with remembering people's names because I'll space out and don't remember half of what they told me.  I've also been called rude or snobby by people.  I'm really not.  I'm a very nice person.  I'm just glad to see it happens to others and I'm not a freak.

[ILADVOCATE]

Severe seizures if untreated or severe treatment refractory seizures that are severe can (I know because this is happenning to a distant family member, very sad story, but they have been tried on every anti-convulsant known as well as brain operations to stop the seizure activity, then again they acquired epilepsy from a traumatic brain injury after a car accident, which being a form of brain damage makes seizures from them or anything else hard to treat) eventually cause dementia but seizures that are treated or minor treatment refractory epilepsy will not. This is not a developmental disability. However, people with developmental disabilities such as autism can sometimes have seizures as part of a developmental disability which can often have accompanying physical disabilities (such as a cousin of mine with Rett's Syndrome, a severe developmental disability). No one here is experiencing any of this so people should not worry. As to whether its a normal habit of staring into space, episodes of losing touch with reality from schizophrenia (which is common) or some form of minor seizure this is best talked over with a psychiatrist or if a person doesn't have one yet a doctor and they can determine what is going on and make a referral to a neurologist if needed. I've had EEG's and MRI's and they are painless, easy procedures to undergo. There are many books about all this as well as clinically accurate websites where a person can update themselves as well.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

I think it's possible for someone to have seizures that much in fact I think someone told me before that someone they knew had them that often.  I didn't know until they told me but seizures can severely developmentally disable a person.

[Aleksia]

I see. For me, I was completely unaware of myself or my surroundings. It was as if my mind shut down. I didn't even ever know it was happening, even after I would come out of it. I don't know what it was like. And it was long ago. And as for the post by ILADVOCATE, mine were most likely caused by another condition which has since been cured. Mine had nothing to do with anything that I could control.

I think I know what you are talking about, and I think it is fairly normal. It is just like zoning out, I suppose. I think it happens to most people. Happens to me and pretty much everyone I've known as a normal thing.

[innerchild09]

I just read about it. I don't think it is me, but I don't know. So many things can cause people to space out. And I can snap myself out of it too. And I know what's going on. I tend to daydream half of the time. And can someone have a seizure everyday maybe even several times a day? And I really don't have any of the other symptoms apart from spacing out. I won't be seeing my phychiatrist for awhile. I just saw him several days ago.

[paranoid_cataclysm]

After reading the seizure symptoms I'm not sure if it was silent seizures I have as I'm always entirely aware of everything and usually know when it happens or if I don't I become aware later and then snap myself out of it usually although even then I still don't lose awareness of my surroundings.  I can think while like that but usually I don't want to so I don't.  Going to ask my psychiatrist what it is at any rate next time I see him.  I read about stupor on wikipedia anyway and that was pretty dead on with what goes on for me except it left out some details but of course there's a lot of causes for things like this.