Talking in a made up or different language

Yesterday my ex drove the children back to my mother instead of bringing them to me today. She manipulated the whole situation saying she'd spent alot money on a day out that nobody previously knew of.

I went to house to collect my children very calmly. I was terrified but I knocked on the door. Her husband came to the door and said "they won't be coming home" I calmly walked back to the car and called the police. My bf got me to record the whole thing so they can't make up lies and say I was agressive or something which they are very capable of doing.

By the time the police got there they said it was late and I should return today.

When I got home I got into bed and started having severe flashbacks. I felt trapped in my body and couldn't move. I felt like I was dreaming but awake. I was also unable to speak.

Eventually I managed to tap my bf and once I could move the body I still couldn't speak. I started to panic and cry. My bf calmed me down and I realised I could type possibly. So typed I was trapped. He kept me calm although I kept panicking and eventually I thought I'll try some grounding techniques. That calmed me but when I tried to speak proper words didn't come out. It was like another language and mostly incomprehensible but occasionally I realised some words were close to what o was trying to say so I repeated them trying to get myself back to normal talking.

I communicated with my bf by writing out what I was trying to say. I felt "not mad" I felt aware of reality, not delusional but like I was asleep and awake at the same time.

Has anyone else had alters who speak in a made up or incomprehensible or any different language?

I asked my bf to record it. He did. I'm not upto listening to it yet but I do wonder if I can make sense of any of what I was saying.

Mine have spoken in a different language and mine have spoken in gibberish. I'm so sorry for all you are going through.

I’m sorry to hear about your issues.

Stressful times have also been more difficult for SF. She had amnesia for 2 and a half days. Couldn’t remember me, the kids, how to drive, anything past about age 15. None of the others could get out, but I found out Meg could hear and text and could still access memories.

There have been other times when I could tell SF wanted to say something but couldn’t make words work. Add to that, Raina is mute.

Also, someone (B.?) likes to cuss in German.

Wow, Sarandipidy, that experience sounds really rough. So sorry.

We have specific alters who have spoken a semi-intelligible word salad, repeating certain words or phrases, sometimes while they're trying to push out comprehensible English but can't. This happens pretty often in therapy too. We know the words don't make complete sense but we can't break out of it. We're always very triggered when this happens, with fear, overwhelm, and confusion.

Alters may speak languages that others don't know because of interactions with people in the childhood environment. Jack speaks an old-fashioned form of Appalachian English learned from an old man when we were a kid. Initially we felt his way of talking was made up. Then I started researching the dialect online and found a few videos of old-timers talking exactly like him, which made him/us cry. He can also speak more normal American English, but more slowly, like he's translating. Originally four of us spoke British English modeled after our grandparents but now just one speaks that way.

Would you boyfriend be willing to write down some of what was recorded so you can get a sense of what's going on without getting too triggered?

Thanks for responses. They make me feel less odd. I'm going to try to find out what it us. A couple of them write in different symbols and I looked that up and it's basically some form of shorthand from what I can work out. I haven't learnt shorthand but I do remember as a child being interested in my mother doing shorthand so that's probably how they write like that.

Sarandipity wrote:Has anyone else had alters who speak in a made up or incomprehensible or any different language?

So two of mine are capable of reading Hebrew characters, and can read it with a Lexicon or "reader" Bible...

And two (Pixie and Kitten) have their own language, a "twin speak" kind of deal.

There's different accents for mine... but not languages as far as I'm aware.