Stress induced chain reaction while source of stress is totally over

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Hello,

I don’t know whether this is autism or schizophrenia related. Maybe both. I don’t know.
So here is the issue. When I get stressed, like when I’m the front passenger and my mother does a minor (or major) driving mistake, I get slightly stressed or agitated or whatever. Or maybe when she takes the wrong route and drives towards nowhere although I keep telling her we are going to “end up in china” or whatever.
So basically I get mildly agitated. But my mind won’t stop getting more and MORE agitated, although the source of stress is totally over.
So like we are where we wanted to get to, or there are no more driving mistakes by my mother.Or we are actually at home.
I keep getting nuttier and nuttier, angry, agitated, crazy.
It’s like a chain reaction in the brain. I don’t even really think of the stress situation or go on ruminating or talking about it. I’m just sitting and my mind literally falls apart slowly. And at the end I’m completely useless. I won’t do anything but I look angry as hell and totally dumb and dement. It’s horrible.
What could this be? can you relate? Autism or Schizophrenia?

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Do you have access to a pdoc? He or she might know how to help you.

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I have the same thing, I had to take a long drive with my mom and she was driving and I eventually relaxed because she wasn’t making any mistakes. I don’t have autism, so it’s probably the sz.

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Sounds like emotional dysregulation so probably neither Autism nor SZ.

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I have one but he believes I have Schizophrenia.