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lizzie g
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Right, In my introduction I mentioned that I have a couple of what I consider to be mental health issues that I am very embarressed about.
I'm not sure where they feature in this forum so I thought I would ask for a bit of advice.
I'm not expecting a diagnosis or anything but I would like to know if anyone else suffers from what I do.
I talk to myself. A lot! I can have whole conversations with myself everyday. Some of it is about stuff that is going on in my life and other stuff whilst based on people & events in my life is completely made up by me. Example, I'll pretend to have a conversation with my sister about the guy I'm going out with (I'm not going out with him, he's a friend of a friend that I thinks quite cute.)
Or just recently I'll pretend that I'm going to a festival with my friends. Instead of just thinking through scenarios of what this might be like (which I imagine most people might do) I start acting & talking them out load.
I'll pretend I'm having arguements with people I don't like (interestingly I'm always on top of the arguements, something that would never happen in real life)
I also sometimes live out fantasy scenarios. Mostly based on books I've read or films. These I can understand a bit more as a way of escaping. Though I do get half way through realise what a wally i'm making of myself then stop!
This makes me sound like a freak I know. But at 25 I should be over playing lets pretend with myself surely.
It's got better as I've got older but hasn't gone away & I wish it would. I hate to think what the neighbours think hearing me chatting away to myself!!!
I have tried to stop but it seems to be something I always fall back into!
Please be kind as this something I'm very sensitive about. I just need somehelp with this one.
Thanks xx
I'm not sure where they feature in this forum so I thought I would ask for a bit of advice.
I'm not expecting a diagnosis or anything but I would like to know if anyone else suffers from what I do.
I talk to myself. A lot! I can have whole conversations with myself everyday. Some of it is about stuff that is going on in my life and other stuff whilst based on people & events in my life is completely made up by me. Example, I'll pretend to have a conversation with my sister about the guy I'm going out with (I'm not going out with him, he's a friend of a friend that I thinks quite cute.)
Or just recently I'll pretend that I'm going to a festival with my friends. Instead of just thinking through scenarios of what this might be like (which I imagine most people might do) I start acting & talking them out load.
I'll pretend I'm having arguements with people I don't like (interestingly I'm always on top of the arguements, something that would never happen in real life)
I also sometimes live out fantasy scenarios. Mostly based on books I've read or films. These I can understand a bit more as a way of escaping. Though I do get half way through realise what a wally i'm making of myself then stop!
This makes me sound like a freak I know. But at 25 I should be over playing lets pretend with myself surely.
It's got better as I've got older but hasn't gone away & I wish it would. I hate to think what the neighbours think hearing me chatting away to myself!!!
I have tried to stop but it seems to be something I always fall back into!
Please be kind as this something I'm very sensitive about. I just need somehelp with this one.
Thanks xx