[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.

[amandalouise]

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.

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.

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.

Hi ASTN, welcome to PC!

I can understand as to how confusing and vexing these happenings can be. Dissociative disorders with the things that you are describing usually stem from trauma experienced from early childhood like child abuse or a horrific event/stress that the child's mind can't process, so if you have anything like that, you could be on the right track. It's also an on going lifelong situation that didn't just begin recently.

DD like what you described, being aware and present but not "in control" can be called "co-conscious" and that's kinda like how I is, this all has to be determined and diagnosed by a mental health care professional.

Feel free to hangout and ask more questions or post any questions that you might have. A normal healthy mind doesn't go asking and describing things on online forums such as this.

[amandalouise]

I just went back and read your past posts and discovered you posted about this before. in the past posts you stated that you are 17 and sometimes you willfully create persona's that you act out\pretend to be... and you wanted to know whether this is a mental disorder...

theres a difference between dissociative type alters and a person purposely creating persona's to be because they dont want to be their selves.

a person creates persona's (pretending to be what and who they are not) for many reasons, some of those is because they want people to like them, or because they are in a school play and are acting a part,

dissociative type alters are not like that. there is even a diagnostic criteria that says this kind of alters can not be because of fantasy play (in other words they cant be because someone is slipping into these voluntarily created persona's to play pretend that they are something or some else.)

if you were here in my location what you are doing would be called many things like you would be called a great actor and should be in plays, musicals, and such like your favorite tv persona's (actors and actresses) in some ways what you are doing in my location would be called behavior problem not a mental disorder because its in your control to pretend to be other people.

but the short line is because of the diagnostic criteria saying the problems can not be because of fantasy play you would not be diagnosed with any dissociative disorders that have alternate personalities.

that said we can not diagnose you so please dont take my explaining how things are in my location as making a diagnosis of you.

you are 17 years old and I can understand how and why a 17 yr old wants to remake their self into other people but thats not a mental disorder per se,

my suggestion is if you feel you are having a problem with your purposely creating these persona's when you dont want to be you, contact a treatment provider who can help you to use this is positive ways that can teach you how to not create persona's when its not appropriate for you to do so and to pretend to be someone else when it is appropriate like maybe join your high school chorus or a near by acting class.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2

A normal healthy mind doesn't go asking and describing things on online forums such as this.

Im sorry but I need to disagree here. even healthy people question their sanity, their health issue, their life situations. its just part of being a human being with a thinking brain.

human beings learn to question their health the first moment they encounter something they dont understand. example my daughter and son are under 5 years old, they have a very healthy mind and I spend a majority of my time with them listening to their questions about their self, their body and what they are thinking about.

also this poster is 17 years old. the teen age years are full of questions about their self, their world and the way they think, its a time of puberty\hormones out of whack and eye opening experiences of peer pressure to think and behave like their friends and when one doesnt conform to their friends thinking and behaving teens naturally think something is wrong with them mentally and they must be crazy or what ever the terms teens now use for someone who may be naturally different and not in with the accepted crowds.

most times what a teen questions about their mind and body is in fact very normal, non mentally disordered mind. its just the age to be this way for most teenagers.