[miss_rainy]

Something's bothering me; Recently, I've been reverting back to a little kid. I see myself as kid and think like a kid. This is really embarrassing but I'm starting to play with dolls. This helps especially to cope when something bad is happening. I

Well, just to give you some background, I always felt different since I was a little kid. I never really had a real personality and I always take pieces from other people's personalities and use them. This is how I cope with emotions, communicate with people and "be normal". My personality never was stable, I would change about four times a day and when I went back to my "real" self it was flat with no distinct features, nervous and I was unable to express myself. Never mind the fact that I felt that I would mindlessly do anything someone said or suggested. Couldn't help and still continues today.
Now, especially as my mind gets worse after being beating and battered, I'm having different personalities that interrupt as I'm talking and you can hear hem by the pitch change and how the subject/opinion changes. Someone can even call on them and they will come out and talk. Also, because of my schizophrenic mental problems, I can even hear them talk in my head. I hear them and feel all the time and it makes my mind feel cloudy making it hard to stay the same. They come out with triggers and in certain situations.
Does anybody know what this is? I tried asking somebody but nobody will answer or take me seriously. Even my therapist doesn't even address it and it's nagging at me. Feedback is defiantly welcome.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by miss_rainy

Something's bothering me; Recently, I've been reverting back to a little kid. I see myself as kid and think like a kid. This is really embarrassing but I'm starting to play with dolls. This helps especially to cope when something bad is happening. I

Well, just to give you some background, I always felt different since I was a little kid. I never really had a real personality and I always take pieces from other people's personalities and use them. This is how I cope with emotions, communicate with people and "be normal". My personality never was stable, I would change about four times a day and when I went back to my "real" self it was flat with no distinct features, nervous and I was unable to express myself. Never mind the fact that I felt that I would mindlessly do anything someone said or suggested. Couldn't help and still continues today.
Now, especially as my mind gets worse after being beating and battered, I'm having different personalities that interrupt as I'm talking and you can hear hem by the pitch change and how the subject/opinion changes. Someone can even call on them and they will come out and talk. Also, because of my schizophrenic mental problems, I can even hear them talk in my head. I hear them and feel all the time and it makes my mind feel cloudy making it hard to stay the same. They come out with triggers and in certain situations.
Does anybody know what this is? I tried asking somebody but nobody will answer or take me seriously. Even my therapist doesn't even address it and it's nagging at me. Feedback is defiantly welcome.

there are many different normal medical and mental problems associated with when a person feels like they are reverting to childhood....

example Alzheimer disease, cancers, stress, lack of sleep, .....just about anything can cause a person to feel like a child.

we even have a therapy that teaches being the child, getting in touch with the child side of a person \you once were, acting schools also promote people acting like a child at times. parenting classes also use regression techniques to help parents understand what its like to be a child.

we can not make a diagnosis of what may be happening with in you so my suggestion is if this continues to bother you talk with your treatment providers. if you are here in the USA you can ask for diagnostic evaluations to find out what your mental disorders, physical health and learning problems are, by undergoing these tests you will find out if this reverting to childhood for you is normal, medical or mental problem in you.

something in your post jumped out at me...your statement that you dont really have a real personality.... with DID and OSDD a person knows they have a personality... they know things like when they feel numb, spaced out, they know when they hear voices, they know whether their non dissociated self is kind, quiet, considerate, trustworthy, funny, happy, sad, lacking emotions.. these things are all things that here in america is a personality for even non mental disordered people...

my suggestion is read your past posts. i bet you will find many descriptive words about what your personality is like...

for example in one post you invited others to talk with you thats called being compassionate and considerate and helpfut of others. thats your personality in the normal sense of the word.

another example you use the phrase you have a sense of what another poster was going through. thats being intuitive and that describes your personality in the normal sense of the word.

when I am at a loss for what my personality is like I come on here and read my past posts. they contain words that describe what my personality is like.

now in the DID\OSDD sense of the word personality there is a huge difference. its not about reverting to childhood. you can read in my link at the bottom of my post what an alternate personality is but in general dissociative type alters have their own way of being, their own jobs purposes, reasons for being that affects every aspect of a persons life.

something else that jumped out at me in your post....you described your self as....

it was flat with no distinct features, nervous and I was unable to express myself. Never mind the fact that I felt that I would mindlessly do anything someone said or suggested.

in ....my location.... this isnt called dissociation this is called catatonic... it happens with medications that are not the right dosage, and mental disorders like schizophrenia.

another suggestion if you are on medications check with your treatment providers maybe the solution is just a change in dosage or kind of meds you are on.

maybe even print off your post and give it to your treatment providers so that they can see you want to address this issue. there may be a reason why they did not diagnose this reverting to childhood as being an alternate personality...such as it may not fit the new diagnostics for being a dissociative type. if so they can tell you what this reverting to childhood is for you.

[Shaly78]

So from my understanding of your post schizophrenia mental problem past, has turned into more ....Folks with schizophrenia don't have personality problems so what you are describing sounds to be at the very least something to investigate with your therapist. The only thing you can do right now is continue to research and talk about it on sites like this, journal the symptoms and let the process play out. It also helps to talk about your trauma not just schizophrenia criteria of hallucinations and beliefs...Gaining communication with your kids/alters is a great step, just know what is in always comes out it is just a matter of time you and therapist will gain awareness to where there is no doubt......Have you also been diagnosed with PTSD? That is almost always co-morbid if you want to eliminate schizophrenia diagnoses. Not to say both of those can't occur simultaneously...

[miss_rainy]

Thank you for that, it helped but I politely disagee with the Schizophrenia part. I think that have something else going on with the schizophrenic-like symptoms. Sometimes they entertwine as I'm seeing/heading/feeling right now :'( I dunno... I just want some answers in the mean time of getting a new therapist because she won't get into it. :'(

Originally Posted by miss_rainy

Something's bothering me; Recently, I've been reverting back to a little kid. I see myself as kid and think like a kid. This is really embarrassing but I'm starting to play with dolls. This helps especially to cope when something bad is happening. I

Well, just to give you some background, I always felt different since I was a little kid. I never really had a real personality and I always take pieces from other people's personalities and use them. This is how I cope with emotions, communicate with people and "be normal". My personality never was stable, I would change about four times a day and when I went back to my "real" self it was flat with no distinct features, nervous and I was unable to express myself. Never mind the fact that I felt that I would mindlessly do anything someone said or suggested. Couldn't help and still continues today.
Now, especially as my mind gets worse after being beating and battered, I'm having different personalities that interrupt as I'm talking and you can hear hem by the pitch change and how the subject/opinion changes. Someone can even call on them and they will come out and talk. Also, because of my schizophrenic mental problems, I can even hear them talk in my head. I hear them and feel all the time and it makes my mind feel cloudy making it hard to stay the same. They come out with triggers and in certain situations.
Does anybody know what this is? I tried asking somebody but nobody will answer or take me seriously. Even my therapist doesn't even address it and it's nagging at me. Feedback is defiantly welcome.

Steve:

Hey, sorry about all that. I just want to say that hearing voices aren't all skitzophrenia. I'm not talking for you, but in general. I hear head voices inside and I'm not psychotic. They're others think/talking.

A person can have more than one condition, but when one of them is major like skitzo, it shadows everything else. I call it more like a convienent blow off. Sorry.

[Shaly78]

SKitzo is not only about voices .....Research that to get an understanding.....Skitzo is not about personality or identity it is all genetic....Now, let's say a skitzo had some sexual abuse then you have to deal with that case by case still doesn't mean they are plural....They have a inner child that was hurt....With DID you don't say inner child you say alters child parts, and few variations of terms....The two terms are different.....

[miss_rainy]

Originally Posted by amandalouise

there are many different normal medical and mental problems associated with when a person feels like they are reverting to childhood....

example Alzheimer disease, cancers, stress, lack of sleep, .....just about anything can cause a person to feel like a child.

we even have a therapy that teaches being the child, getting in touch with the child side of a person \you once were, acting schools also promote people acting like a child at times. parenting classes also use regression techniques to help parents understand what its like to be a child.

we can not make a diagnosis of what may be happening with in you so my suggestion is if this continues to bother you talk with your treatment providers. if you are here in the USA you can ask for diagnostic evaluations to find out what your mental disorders, physical health and learning problems are, by undergoing these tests you will find out if this reverting to childhood for you is normal, medical or mental problem in you.

something in your post jumped out at me...your statement that you dont really have a real personality.... with DID and OSDD a person knows they have a personality... they know things like when they feel numb, spaced out, they know when they hear voices, they know whether their non dissociated self is kind, quiet, considerate, trustworthy, funny, happy, sad, lacking emotions.. these things are all things that here in america is a personality for even non mental disordered people...

my suggestion is read your past posts. i bet you will find many descriptive words about what your personality is like...

for example in one post you invited others to talk with you thats called being compassionate and considerate and helpfut of others. thats your personality in the normal sense of the word.

another example you use the phrase you have a sense of what another poster was going through. thats being intuitive and that describes your personality in the normal sense of the word.

when I am at a loss for what my personality is like I come on here and read my past posts. they contain words that describe what my personality is like.

now in the DID\OSDD sense of the word personality there is a huge difference. its not about reverting to childhood. you can read in my link at the bottom of my post what an alternate personality is but in general dissociative type alters have their own way of being, their own jobs purposes, reasons for being that affects every aspect of a persons life.

something else that jumped out at me in your post....you described your self as....

it was flat with no distinct features, nervous and I was unable to express myself. Never mind the fact that I felt that I would mindlessly do anything someone said or suggested.

in ....my location.... this isnt called dissociation this is called catatonic... it happens with medications that are not the right dosage, and mental disorders like schizophrenia.

another suggestion if you are on medications check with your treatment providers maybe the solution is just a change in dosage or kind of meds you are on.

maybe even print off your post and give it to your treatment providers so that they can see you want to address this issue. there may be a reason why they did not diagnose this reverting to childhood as being an alternate personality...such as it may not fit the new diagnostics for being a dissociative type. if so they can tell you what this reverting to childhood is for you.

I understand what your saying... And I understand that you can not make a diagnoses on what we are just saying here but we come here to express what's going on in heads in hopes that someone who's going through the same thing will come and relates to us.
Mental orders are not just black or white. Really, what I'm saying is that I have schizo like symptoms but it may not be just the hallucinations but other things associated with it, you all don't know the whole story. And truly, schizophrenia does effect personalities. You can become DID from the trauma you have with schizophrenia (example being batter by the ocd thoughts you have in your head or instigating-bully voices like I do). Really, I feel jumped on for not having the "correct" symptoms of DID. And when you really look at it, not many have the "correct" symptoms of DID.
Just to let you know, when I look at my post, I see the other personalities who wrote it. Each of them having there own writing style. And it really shows. Most of the time, I am not me "me" when I'm writing. Matter of fact the real "me" can't write do to problems with concentrating and expressing herself. It takes a personality gifted with words to do it, like now.
And Shaly is right, you guys need to educate yourself on schizophrenia, it's not just the stereotypical stuff it's a lot more too it. I see a lot of people write on here there problems but unless you have the "correct" terms you don't get listened to or blown off. Not every case of DID is the same...

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by miss_rainy

I understand what your saying... And I understand that you can not make a diagnoses on what we are just saying here but we come here to express what's going on in heads in hopes that someone who's going through the same thing will come and relates to us.
Mental orders are not just black or white. Really, what I'm saying is that I have schizo like symptoms but it may not be just the hallucinations but other things associated with it, you all don't know the whole story. And truly, schizophrenia does effect personalities. You can become DID from the trauma you have with schizophrenia (example being batter by the ocd thoughts you have in your head or instigating-bully voices like I do). Really, I feel jumped on for not having the "correct" symptoms of DID. And when you really look at it, not many have the "correct" symptoms of DID.
Just to let you know, when I look at my post, I see the other personalities who wrote it. Each of them having there own writing style. And it really shows. Most of the time, I am not me "me" when I'm writing. Matter of fact the real "me" can't write do to problems with concentrating and expressing herself. It takes a personality gifted with words to do it, like now.
And Shaly is right, you guys need to educate yourself on schizophrenia, it's not just the stereotypical stuff it's a lot more too it. I see a lot of people write on here there problems but unless you have the "correct" terms you don't get listened to or blown off. Not every case of DID is the same...

miss Rainy sorry if my post upset you. I did not realize you were looking for schizophrenia feedback...

my post was in reference to your question in your post....

Does anybody know what this is? I tried asking somebody but nobody will answer or take me seriously. Even my therapist doesn't even address it and it's nagging at me. Feedback is defiantly welcome.

yes schizophrenia does affect a persons personality there are many types of alters, but I was answering in reference to dissociative disorders because this is the dissociative forum board not the schizophrenia board. you can find information and feedback on schizophrenia /schizophrenic personality in this link

Schizophrenia and Psychosis - Forums at Psych Central

im sorry I mis understood where you were coming from on the DID coming from OCD. in ......my location ....... DID is created in very small children under the age of 5 from extreme trauma inflicted upon them by others outside their body(according to my locations statistics\demographics, not by other mental disorders. we even have a diagnostic criteria here in the USA that states the problem can not be because of other mental disorders. that is why I was answering the way I did. I can only answer according to what my location goes by, sometimes I forget to place in the posts that other countries may have other standards so people understand I am talking only according to my location.