Mini dazes

I’ve been noticing in the past year that everytime a part speaks in head or outloud...I go into a mini daze regardless of what I’m doing which tends to happen at dangerous moments due to the nature of our job and driving. I could never pilot a plane.

I always chalked it up just to distraction which it is...but it’s more than that...
I often get called out for it by other people asking me if I’m alright...I look like I freeze mid sentence for a moment, I can only imagine what they are thinking, also a switch can do the same.

Any ideas on how to lessen its intensity at least to nothing? Telling them to stop talking doesn’t work.

I dont have a history of mini dazes associated to my DID. before I was interated hearing others in my head was just normal, no one outside my body even knew that the others inside me existed. I never stopped what I was donig. it was more like a fleating thought where while I was playing with my friends my mind was making comments, and other internal chatter. in fact I never thought it was anything other than normal to hear voices until after I decided on my career choice and was in college psych classes.

but I do have a few suggestions....

check with your medical doctors to see how they handled this when you were a child. since you say people notice and call you out for it you most likely have been seen by medical doctors of all sorts to find out why you are physically freezing in place, since this is a symptom of physical health problems like MS, Parkensons, Epilepsy/ other types of seizures, and many other physical health problems too.

check with any schools you may have attended. they would have documented any physical reactions/ abnormal behaviors like physically freezing appearing to be in a daze during school hours. their reports can also tell you what kinds of things they did to help you fix this problem.

Another suggestion.... if this is recent and you did not have this problem as a child you might want to contact your doctors to be evaluated for any thing physical and possibly have any of your medications checked to see if that is what is causing you to suddenly freeze when the internal talking happens. r

One day in therapy my therapist told me that one of my parts had been talking to him and asked me what was going on with me,what was happening with me while they were.I had no clue what he was talking about.After that day he would ask me "what just happened to you,where were you just now?" right afterwards.It took a very long time of him asking questions but eventually I was able to become aware that I was frozen inside in the background and didn't know what was being said.After awhile though I was able to hear bits and pieces and then later on I could hear and remember what a part had said.It took a long time to build up to that.And even longer to stay present while a part was talking through me.

Mine all happened internally and nothing external like with you but I was thinking that since you are already aware of what's going on and that they're talking to you inside or out loud or that you're switching,maybe it might help if you start asking yourself questions right afterwards.Like "where was I just now,what was happening with me" and maybe it might eventually help.If you can figure out what's going on with you then you might be able to change it.

Are you in therapy?Have you asked your therapist about it?

I look off to the side when they talk inside to me. My eyes just dart off to whatever side I "sense" them at. Interestingly a full head turn to the side often signals a switch in me. I look sharply to one side and *kaboom*! Hello there (and goodbye me)

I tried so hard to see a therapist once and pushed the paperwork and waiting months to see one...then right then and there, a male alter told her that there “wasn’t anything wrong with me”...she then asked why were we there for...and he said he don’t know....I prayed that it was seen as a shout out, I was devastated. Our next potential T we met once, was scary, and then finances flopped.

These daze times my mind is so full of chitter chatter that staying present enough to come to grips is impossible, like trying to not drown. Whomever is the loudest in head starts fronting, then another cuts it short, then another, and another.....

I wish it was epilepsy....

I know it’s because we are many and very prone to dissociation...one part trying to over ride the present part...like dying to be heard...we just freeze because another part dons the convo which causes a mental switch to that part...

Has anyone used like a talking token, raised hands, or some kind of method to organize the internal chaos?

It’s been a daily life long thing that contributes to a lot of missing memories and time...a segmented and broken up day that just fades away into oblivion...

Maybe I should just shut up and just accept that this is our way and nothing in this life is going to change it and stop commenting or even talking about it.

I can’t help but to feel hopeless.

I want to amend this...we live in a daze. We have a switch every 2-3 steps, everytime we walk into another room, we open the fridge, we look at clothes, we go online, we sit, change the channel, cross our legs, pick up the dog....everything is a trigger to us.

It’s so crazy...

Objects, pictures, places and things effect a change of parts....and we can’t stop for a second.

A continual nonstop of revolving doors...

So tiresome so unending.

People encounters, any and everything evokes a switch...

My mind is an unending merry go around. I step into the shower and another steps out even though we had a merry go around and group discussion in between.

Even in our dreams we are in and out.

I live in confusion patch quilting the present trying to appear sane...we all do.

We need a vacation...but with time off, no telling what happens.

Therapy? Anything that happened a few hours ago doesn’t exist no longer.

But, we still manage to hang on. What makes us so special? Why do we keep ticking? Why?

Oh yeah...we forget to kill ourself. The life ending parts get buried and forgotten to the next time.

Soon this will fade away fearing clicking it tomorrow a scared of what was posted, like always.

This body is on destiny of dying from a heart attack for sure....come close a few times....but real soon. It’s inevitable.

Yea basically, practice at home helps swinting while doing so form of work. Are there young alters at the forefront? I just allow mines to speak it gets us into out of control moments socially and occupationally. Social trauma is important too there some younger years at the stage and few other things that happened. So, just depends on how you mean daze it how I experience it too. I'd visit the doctors to just make sure there isn't some medical sometimes there is cross over

Whaa. Lol

See what I got to live with. :/