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Originally Posted by Astn277
I don't know if I have some dissoctive disorder or not sometimes I space out and forget task and stuff I was just doing but not severely. And I feel as if my personality is a shattered one sometimes I feel like someone else is taking over for me like someone is speaking for me or my views and voice changes to someone else but I'm very conscious while this is going on I just feel like I have different sides and personas to me that my brain usually volunteerly switches to and its like I'm aware of who I am but my brain has swicthed to this person and even though I'm talking its like they're saying it for me and I'm just the voice saying it and I can't find what this is or why this is.
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first breath and relax, everything that you posted can fall into many different normal, mental and medical problems.
for example just something as simple as not getting enough sleep can make a brain react this way, or not eating correctly...gosh there are so many things that can cause these same problems...
that said maybe a bit of information about dissociation will help...
here in america dissociation is a response to a trigger...you know how if someone says something funny you will automatically laugh or automatically smile.. well dissociation is sort of like that....something happens that causes a person to feel spaced out, numb\unfeeling\ like they are just watching and not participating\disconnected from others and their self. (this is on a normal level every human being goes through this) its not a voluntary thing where the brain chooses to do it or not, it is an automatic response like breathing or like blinking, its not something that is chosen or volunteering.
when something is voluntary\volunteering that means a person has a choice to do something or not. if you and your brain are choosing to be spaced out and such then its not considered a mental disorder here in the USA. its called a learned behavior. and learned behaviors can be changed just by wanting it to change like noticing when you are spaced out and instead of choosing to stay that way you can make yourself focus on not being spaced out. kind of like in school when the teacher is talking and you choose to ignore the teacher or not ignore the teacher. choosing to get back in focus rather than staying spaced out and doing something to refocus your mind \brain is called grounding. whether you have a dissociative disorder or not thats what the treatment for this is...re grounding yourself so that you are not feeling spaced out any more.
sounds simple right..well its a bit harder than that, it takes practice and hard work to stay focused instead of spacing out.
here we dont tell each other whether or not they have a mental disorder, we share information and what our own treatment providers call things and how we are getting a handle on our problems.
only a treatment provider can actually diagnose what this in your words your brain volunteering to be spaced out and such is so my standard suggestion is contact a treatment provider in your off the computer location. they can help you to get a handle on this vollunteering to be spaced out and such.
if you are here in america all americans must be covered by basic health care that includes mental health so you may need to contact your insurance company to see what treatment providers they will pay for and then pick someone off your insurance listing of treatment providers, some locations their insurance plans are automatically assigning treatment providers,if your insurance company is doing this and if you did not get assigned a primary care physician, mental health treatment provider and a dental treatment provider yet your insurance provider can help you with that.