Thoughts about things I'm not doing

So today I was scrolling on fb and I saw a McDonald's ice cream. Passed it and was looking at some other stuff. About a minute later the thought popped up I like this ice cream. I wasnt eating ice cream. I had just seen it. Then tonight I was texting my mom because my uncle died and she was going out of town for his memorial service. She said she was stopping in Tennessee for the night to sleep. I had the thought I like sleep but I don't want to go to sleep. I had a 4 hour nap today. My chatter has also been mentioning food mainly for the past two months. I want off this Invega so I know if they are causing these thoughts.

Weird things too like questioning and answering myself. Like you need to. You need to what? I thought questioning and answering yourself is a sign of insanity?

Rive wrote:So today I was scrolling on fb and I saw a McDonald's ice cream. Passed it and was looking at some other stuff. About a minute later the thought popped up I like this ice cream. I wasnt eating ice cream. I had just seen it. Then tonight I was texting my mom because my uncle died and she was going out of town for his memorial service. She said she was stopping in Tennessee for the night to sleep. I had the thought I like sleep but I don't want to go to sleep. I had a 4 hour nap today. My chatter has also been mentioning food mainly for the past two months. I want off this Invega so I know if they are causing these thoughts.

Buy them the damn food they want lol

Lmao, I'm wondering if it's just intrusive thoughts caused by my meds.

Rive wrote:Weird things too like questioning and answering myself. Like you need to. You need to what? I thought questioning and answering yourself is a sign of insanity?

Sign of insanity? Come on, that's kind of an insulting thing to say here unless it's a bad joke. It sounds like what a person having no knowledge of psychology would say, like 40 years ago.

On top of that, it's a ridiculously common experience. Asking yourself a question then answering it is something everybody does. An example: a person driving home suddenly says "oh, I gotta pick up the dry cleaning. No, the wife's going to do that. Wait, is she? Yeah, she is."

As most of us who've spent any time here should know, inner (or outer) dialog can also be common in mental conditions like DID or schizophrenia, but the act of questioning and answering something yourself still doesn't equate to insanity, whatever is meant by that.

Visitors here newly diagnosed with DID or who suspect they may have DID have enough worries like "am I going crazy?" or "am I really crazy?" and I feel our job is to help reassure them that no, they're not, conversations are not at all "crazy," even though it can feel like it. It sure did for me at first.

I certainly didn't mean to insult anyone or make anyone think they are going crazy. Just in my circumstance I think these are intrusive thoughts caused by my meds and it scares me when I have certain thoughts like Do you like spaghetti? Shh I like spaghetti. I don't like spaghetti. Or. Anything else where I am questioning and answering myself

Rive wrote:I certainly didn't mean to insult anyone or make anyone think they are going crazy. Just in my circumstance I think these are intrusive thoughts caused by my meds and it scares me when I have certain thoughts like Do you like spaghetti? Shh I like spaghetti. I don't like spaghetti. Or. Anything else where I am questioning and answering myself

There are no ######6 meds that cause you to ask yourself if you like spaghetti. And what the ###$ is scary about liking spaghetti??? If you spent any time really thinking about WHY in the world this SCARES you, then maybe you would make some progress. Yes, it’s scary to have other identities inside you who like things that you don’t. You can keep grasping for other explanations, but it’s just avoiding their existence and keeping you stuck in an endless loop of denial.

Have a meal of spaghetti and ice cream and write down the feelings this brings up. That will likely get you farther than anything else you’ve been doing.

I'm just wondering that because it's so repetitive and gets stuck on themes. Like for awhile the thoughts were don't touch me, then they were don't cut me, then they went to being about little birds, now they are on food.

Rive wrote:I certainly didn't mean to insult anyone or make anyone think they are going crazy. Just in my circumstance I think these are intrusive thoughts caused by my meds and it scares me when I have certain thoughts like Do you like spaghetti? Shh I like spaghetti. I don't like spaghetti. Or. Anything else where I am questioning and answering myself

This sounds like the arguments we have EVERY day.
Honestly this is normal for alters. We have one that likes pickle, one that likes smoked fish, one that has a BIG sweet tooth - breakfast runs along the line of "coco pops!" "no we had that yesterday" "put down that pickle jar" "but I havent had toast in agesss."

somedays we have 3 (small) course breakfasts. Otherdays we end up with a weird compromise - strawbery yogurt and peanut butter on pancakes anyone?

Follow the food urges because if you dont acknowledge their needs they are going to keep getting louder.

the fact that your voices have moved from self harm to food is a good thing. It meens they think they are going to be heard, that they dont need to do something drastic to get your attention.

Stop worrying about where they come from and FEED THE DAM VOICES before they start fealing ignored and return to destructive meens of getting your attention.

Mo

Rive wrote:I'm just wondering that because it's so repetitive and gets stuck on themes. Like for awhile the thoughts were don't touch me, then they were don't cut me, then they went to being about little birds, now they are on food.

Little kids ARE repetitive and get stuck on themes. And so do traumatized people, for that matter. Stop judging them and trying to find any other possible ridiculous explanation for them, and start meeting their needs.