changing your voice

I want to asked you about your speaking voice. Does it change and can you do it on purpose?? I told my T that people think I sound like a child on the phone maybe also IRL. She made me do a light trance excercise and some physical exercise and I sounded what I usually sound like...hmm I think ( it only lasted for a day or so) But is this switching or just that I have been talking in a highpicth childish voice for some time that it´s hard to go back. ( Been really stressed lately) If I am DID would I be able to tell the difference before and after... Sorry if this is a stupid qoustion

Our voices are pretty different from each other.

Oh, I have different voices.

if you were here where I live and work in NY, USA no this is not switching. anyone can be hypnotized (placed into a trance) and gain control over things they perceive as a negative part of their behaviors. people do this all the time for smoking, anger, anxiety and many other things including making their voices deeper or higher.

not sure if this is what you are looking for - with DID the "changes" in voice, posture, mood, emotions..... happen automatically. it isnt something DID people have control over / make happen on purpose. here where I live and work these changes are called "switching" which means I have encountered something I could not handle, was too problematic or traumatizing for me so I dissociated and an alter took over control. At that moment everything I was changed into everything that is the alter that took control.

each alternate personality has their own job/purpose or way of being. example sunny was my happy alter. her job / purpose / way of being was to find the positives with in the negatives and keep things upbeat, positive, happy and please others.

when I had a problem that I could not handle or it was too traumatizing, Sunny would take over control. all physical and mental characteristics of my body and mind were at this point under complete control of Sunny. my voice would change to sunnys voice, Sunny would carry out what ever her job/purpose/ reason for being was - assess the traumatic or hard to handle event and locate the positive and act on the positives instead of the negatives.

another example is my alter Red, She was my alter of anger. when ever I had a situation that would make me mad she would take control. at that moment everything about me was out of my control and in Red's control. because Red was my anger holding alter physically my voice would automatically switch from my normal neutral voice to a strong, angry volatile voice. everything about me changed from me to that of who and what Red was.

if you were DID would you notice differences - some people can notice some differences and others don'r. that depends upon many different things like...how much co consciousness (awareness) you have when an alter is presently in control, how your system of alters are set up, what stage of therapy work you are in, and many other variables and symptoms..

that said

Hypnosis (placing yourself or others into a trance) is vastly different than DID.

for one the DID symptoms like changing / controlling voices does not happen just by hypnotizing someone so that they will talk normal for a few days. if healing from DID was that easy there wouldnt be people with DID in therapy working on things like trauma therapy and other specialized therapy techniques.

curing DID is not like quitting smoking. you cant just place someone in a trance and they are fine for a few days. It takes many many years of therapy, trauma work, grounding, mindfulness sometimes specialized therapy to get a DID system and the host to be working together and solving the problems that made the host DID, and even then the voices are still not in the control of anyone. until a DID person is integrated they will keep hearing and sounding like their alters when ever they dissociate into that alter.

Now that Im integrated I do have control over my voice just like a normal person can control their voice and present a happy voice when angry or an angry voice when angry, a happy voice when happy...

a persons voice changing doesnt always mean a person has DID. the kind of voice changing with DID is a special kind of voice.

in general some people are just born with the child like voice. I know many non mentally disordered people that sound like children because their voices did not go through a change during puberty. its just part of their gene pool.

I also know some non mentally disordered people that have taken voice lessons and singing lessons and their voice changes.

Medication can also affect how a person speaks.

since you did have positive results out of being placed under hypnosis (trance state) Im guessing your voice problem is part of anxiety, stress, and other things not DID.

but if you think you are DID - there are tests you can do to find out. they arent voice tests. they are normal tests like talking with a psychiatrist, doing some computerized tests, retaking some of the same tests you had in elementary and high school. a medical physical, brain and body scans... and other tests. you may even have to release your medical/mental and school files to the psychiatrist doing the testing. its a long test process but well worth it.

amandalouise you said something interesting to me, I was in a session and one of my protectors stepped in. I remember his deminor, the sound of his voice, but I wasn't able to do anything. I didn't feel like I was being pushed aside or that he was in front of me. We were there together, he was in control and I could hear everything, not act, just hear everything that was going on. I wasn't looking at myself from outside myself, I was there and he was there but he was in control. Is that co conciousness? It was a very different experience than usual. Even after the session he was enjoying the air and sun. I had to take a quick nap before I could drive. It was a better feeling than when I feel pushed aside. It was the first time I ever felt like that. And it was the first time I met him and heard his voice. I still remember nearly everything about that session.

in general yes co consciousness is like this for some people. your treatment providers can tell you if it is co consciousness in you.