apathy and voices(trigger warning)

hi everyone, i've got a few questions again...
right now i'm back in therapy, my therapist thinks i'm complex, and we're still working towards
a diagnosis. She found some of my old diagnoses through other doctos, i've apparantly been diagnosed with atypical depression, bipolar,"semi adhd", paranoid personal disorder, high anxiety and depression, social anxiety..hmm..that's about what i remember. I don't remember getting some of these these diagnoses though. (could be they never told me straight out)
i go through periods of apathy, i have a hard time functioning, and when i'm in this state the voices in my head are much more quiet. is this normal for people with did to hear less voices when they're apathetic, or are the voices always there...?

riddle wrote:i go through periods of apathy, i have a hard time functioning, and when i'm in this state the voices in my head are much more quiet. is this normal for people with did to hear less voices when they're apathetic

Apathy makes practically silence in here.

Yup, here too.. Get too apathetic and it all just kinda slows down. Doesn't happen very often to us though, thankfully. Hope you feel better soon

Yes! Any time I'm feeling apathetic, or feel down about being "stuck", or feel like I'm not getting anywhere, or something like that, things quiet down a lot. It's kinda like it spreads like a cold or something, too. 'Cause things will quiet down gradually, as if one by one everyone inside gets hit with what I'm feeling and stops caring as well or something.


-Cassandra

Strange... for me it's exactly the opposite. Apathy causes more voices. But I think that is because I'm more 'inside' (and thus nearer to the 'voices'?). Maybe it's not really apathy but rather dissociation. To the outside it's apathy.

tomboy24 wrote:Yes! Any time I'm feeling apathetic, or feel down about being "stuck", or feel like I'm not getting anywhere, or something like that, things quiet down a lot. It's kinda like it spreads like a cold or something, too. 'Cause things will quiet down gradually, as if one by one everyone inside gets hit with what I'm feeling and stops caring as well or something.


-Cassandra

WhenI go thru these stuck times, it is a way of my system to slow down and settle down. WHen there are a lot o f voices adn commoction , i find it hard to manage continuity.In turn I feel fake as all viewpoints cant be true. I also find I feel disconnected and fake and so on.WHen the system is quiet I feel like I made it all up and i must know how to stop becase the voices have quieted. I also get a hollow hurt and aching pain when my mind is quiet