Mumbling again

Thanks ADarkerShade. It's nothing that I can make out so I dont think I would know how to write it down. It's gibberish. It's mainly when I'm reading I've noticed. I have a T but I haven't spoke gibberish in session. I am going to talk to her about it though.

We have more than one alter who arrived speaking gibberish. Not so much mumbling, as in speaking too quietly to be heard. Before Inky showed up, we were sitting at the kitchen table and suddenly began speaking gibberish, silly words, sound patterns, phrases that didn't make any sense or didn't quite make sense. The voice was our normal adult voice, not that of a child until he fronted on his own after many minutes of this. For a long time, when he got triggered or was in the body and got upset, he would speak gibberish. Several others have done the same.

Our feeling is that when it's deliberate gibberish it has somewhat of a calming effect. It has been a way to occupy ourselves, talk to ourselves, even when we were too scared or upset to think up full sentences with meaning.

Sometimes it's not deliberate, someone is trying to speak and it's coming out as word salad. This happens a lot in therapy, to me and others.

I'd also suggest writing down any details of when this happens, what's happening, what's going on emotionally, does it feel like anyone else, do you hear any words at all? We probably wouldn't remember much about our experiences with gibberish if we hadn't written down some details right afterwards because there's some dissociation and confusion going on around these incidents.

Thank you, Johnny Jack