Do you have times when no one's out?

I'm asking because of this - my mother says I sometimes disappear and get a glazed look where I'm completely unaware of my surroundings and I seem to be fascinated with the voices in my head. She has to do something to reorient me again, like knock on a table or keep repeating my name.

Does anyone else get this? I know I don't have narcolepsy, so it must be part of my DID?

yes there are many people that have this kind of symptoms.

dissociation is this reaction to things that can happen on a normal scale and then abnormal scale. here in america there is only one dissociative disorder where others inside are out (or in my locations terms ..take control) that dissociative disorder is DID. all the other dissociative disorders are kinds where situations where there are no alters or the alters are not the DID type and do not take control.

please dont take this as a diagnosis. there are many mental and physical health problems both normal and abnormal where a person can hear voices in their heads, space off, be so concentrated internally on internal conversations that they are not aware of whats going on outside their bodies.

here is where you can read more about what America goes by for dissociative disorders.

http://forums.psychcentral.com/disso...s-dsm-5-a.html

As you can see

......... according to the diagnostic standards for DID here in America.........

the person has to have at least two or more alternate personalities that take control over their sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and or sensory-motor functioning.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers. sometimes what you posted can happen too with other things besides a persons dissociative disorder....

example before my alters were integrated when what you posted happened to me my treatment providers had to assess whether it was a medication problem (some medications can cause a person to hear voices and focus on those voices to the point where they are not aware of things outside their self) whether it was my bipolar disorder (one of my bipolar symptoms was psychosis, hallucinations and delusions of hearing voices in my head that I would get fixated on)....along with many other problems that I had..in order to treat the situation right according to what I needed my treatment providers had to assess what and where these voices were coming from in relation to what my mental and physical health problems, medications, life situation was.

my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers they will be able to assess whether this is a dissociative problem or other problem related to you, your mental physical health and life.

I would zone out and have my eyes glaze over a lot. Few friends that do it. It takes extra to get attention and snap them out of it. Some friends I have to let sit there for a few minutes before even trying to snap them out of it. I would do it when I was getting yelled at.

A lot of people might do this for a variety of reasons, like Amandalouise said. A lot of good information in that post. I'd try working with it rather than stressing out too bad.... but I'm not a professional.

Yeah, especially lately. We call it the "empty square" - like those puzzle games that you move the squares around to form a picture? There's an empty square so that the pieces can move.
I used to go into complete lockdowns at certain triggers and even though there was plenty of activity in my mind, I couldn't move or speak - sometimes for 30, 45 minutes. So this 'empty square' is forward movement. I can still sort of address people's questions to some degree some of the time. And my body isn't rigid or stone. But yeah, there's "no one home" in the eyes and we stare off into nothingness. It freaked my dr out lately and she called my therapist in. *sigh* I was still nodding in answer to her questions, so I thought I was doing fairly well considering.