Several seperate and distinct ways of speaking.

Hi. I have browsed through the forums, but it looks like most of the forums are geared to support people personally living with mental illness. I do not suffer from any known or suspected mental illness. I do however, know someone that does, who is not being treated and I'm curious as to what it might be. I know that he was sexually molested by his neighbor as a child, and that PTSD can occur in people with traumatic childhood like that... obviously.

So my question is: Do people with PTSD ever exhibited these symptoms?

1.) Several seperate and distinct ways of speaking. This individual sometimes sounds like a rapper, sometimes like he is from the deep south, sometimes like a member of the American homosexual subculture and at other times uses variations of local accents. If he leaves me more than one message on my answering machine, they sound eerily different from on another.

2.) Makes grandiose claims. He is a martial artist, but will tell people in private that he can achieve these ridiculous things, like using energy to seriously injure people.

3.) Identifies with children more comfortabley than adults. I used to visit him in his appartment building, and as a 35 year old man, he would often be seen playing with large groups of small children but almost never with groupds of adults, and all of his relationships are very superficial.

4.) Gets angry at compeltely unexpected times. He got angry at his girlfriend one time, because she didn't tell him that he looked "stupid" in this one picture of himself, and he had suddenly realized that he thought that he did... look stupid in the picture. Ha. That one was creepy.

I used to buy marijuana from him sometimes, when I was a teenager, that is my association with him he still tries to keep in contact with me, but generally I ignore his calls etc. Any thoughts?

hi,
1. yes possible
2. Yes possible
3. no not really-men do not usually take interest in small children.
4. yes possible
Untreated PTSD is not a good thing, it can manifest itself in many ways. Easily Startled, Anger, Depression, Mania.
It is very treatable. It can also splinter ones personality, or the person may be aware and enjoy different things to cope.

Hope this helps,
Red

SmallTalkRed wrote:hi,
1. yes possible
2. Yes possible
3. no not really-men do not usually take interest in small children.
4. yes possible
Untreated PTSD is not a good thing, it can manifest itself in many ways. Easily Startled, Anger, Depression, Mania.
It is very treatable. It can also splinter ones personality, or the person may be aware and enjoy different things to cope.

Hope this helps,
Red

That was very helpful. Thank you.

He plays ball with the kids, sometimes I've seen him drawing with them outside of his appartment, stuff like that. I have always thought (or wanted to think) that he is being protective of the kids in the neighborhood on account of his childhood.

Is that wishful thinking? Or plausable?

I hadn't heard from him in a few years, then ran into him on Facebook. He is married now and has 1 child of his own and another child that the wife had with another man in the past. He was still not working (probably still selling marijuana) and still making the same wierd statements. I recently quit smoking (after almost 4 years) and was having trouble sleeping for the first few nights, and he posted on my status (which indicated that I was having trouble sleeping) this long rant about natural cycles which cause people to sleep less nearing the equinox and then immediatly called me to play this dominating teacher type of role that he does with people. If you call him out on his BS, he will just keep making stuff up and arguing with you, with progressively longer periods of intence silence as he get more and more frustrated. Then he will spend the next few minutes explaining that he wasn't mad, but is obviously cooling off.

Anyway, he teaches kung fu at a youth center where he lives in Stark County, OH, and often hangs out with the kids (teenage) at his house outside of class.

I was pretty consistently ignored whenever I asked if anyone thought that it was a little wierd that his guy hangs out with teenagers and little kids by my friends, but as a college student now 4 psych 1 soc into my undergrad work, my perspective; That he is a total creep, is only being reinforced.

Anyway, either way, his voice changing thing on my answering machine creeps everybody out. He will call and sound like he is a really pissed off news reporter, and then call later and sound like he is a gangsta? something like that. Very strange. I can't figure it out, but PTSD sounds like it might be right? Maybe coupled with another disorder, inflated from the drug use.

Any additional thoughts?

I will say this: go with your gut feeling when comes to creeps and perverts.
If a neighbor molested him, that would be a pattern he might follow......

This guy sounds like a control freak, and pedophiles are that. If he is coaching ball-I sure hope they did a background check
on him.

Normal men go out with the guys, fishing, shooting pool....not playing with the kids that surround him. Creep.

I could be wrong, I have never met this person, but because of my own back ground, I can pick out a mile off.

The most important thing is to go with your gut.

Take care,
Red