Do people without dissociative disorders have dialogue?
i never really considered that there's a chance not everyone talks to themself this way until recently. i'm always in conversation with myself. sometimes out loud. i don't have one train of thought, it's a bunch of different thought streams, along with a bunch of different reactions.
additionally? my brain just cannot say "i" statements. it's always "you". so if im really stressed and trying to calm myself down, instead of saying "im okay, im safe" it's "you are okay, you are safe". same goes for hateful statements.
it's really frustrating because i truly do not know what i stand for, what i agree with, what my "true" self is. in any given situation i have so many wildly different responses, which one is "real"?
Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC