Thinking in the third person

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"As soon as you start thinking in third person...write down the thought verbatim "

other options would be a Dictaphone or I used writing poetry to try to convey what I was thinking about in a snapshot that didn't require dedication and concentration/attention writing everything down and remembering to do things did.

Though I also emailed brain dumps to people.

It also helped me over-come some of the trauma by thinking about it in a more abstract way than cold black and white, which I found just made things worse.

I think I tend to split into asleep olli, awake olli and somewhere in between olli.

I dont think thinking in 3rd person is only a result of a problem or something negative at all.

I enjoy it and seak it, as I get to know myself really good when I know (am intellectually aware of) what Im thinking and what Im feeling and how it "lookes" like. Like this I get to know myself and can make good decisions. I think a lot in the 2. person, but I enjoy taking the time to consider myself (which thoughts are dominating my brain) (which feelings I have) :how funny it is to be a human.

If I couldnt think in 3rd person, I would have less control and do more stupid things, cause that was the case before I was conscious about its existence.

Have you by any chance been reading a lot of books lately? I have noticed when I read a lot I start to think in the 3rd person, like a narrator.

I sometimes see myself in the third person. It is a detached way of seeing things, but it is sometimes useful. If I want to distance myself from my ego (which can be pesky and distracting at times) I look at myself in the third person.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion!
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!

Ode to a Louse by Robert Burns

ruveyn

i do it, alot

"let's go see what's in the fridge"

"i think we should go over here now"

"we" seems to be one i use alot

"why don't we..."

but i also get stuck on a thought and repeat it to myself. soemtimes if i dont have something to distract me to the next thought i start mumbling it too, it's a bit embarrassing and i hope i dont get caught

Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. I'm sorry I haven't been very attentive here.

I don't mean that I see myself from a third-person perspective. I don't feel any particular depersonalization or disconnect from my body. It's just along the lines of, rather than thinking (for example), "Man, I'm tired," it will be "Kaybee is tired." Or, rather than simply feeling uncomfortable or thinking "This makes me really uncomfortable," I'll think, "Kaybee is very uncomfortable with this." It almost invariably comes up as a way of describing my internal states, be they physical or emotional, not in the style of narration (I don't think things like "Kaybee went to the store" or "Kaybee didn't do that very well").

Amnesia! That sounds very stressful. How did you know you had amnesia? This reminds me of a friend who'd forgotten for some 15 years that he'd been molested as a child. He just had no idea and didn't remember until he'd been seeing a therapist for a little while. A terrifying thought. I don't think this is the case with me, but still very unsettling.


I have found it a little disturbing, but I think I am okay. Thank you for the warning, though. ^_^


That seems very possible, and not entirely negative.



I haven't. I've been reading much less than usual, in fact, but I appreciate the suggestion. I've never experienced third person, narration-style thinking after reading a lot, but I do know that it tends to increase any derealization I may already be experiencing.



This is the first person plural. I think this way much of the time and have for years (with increasing regularity). I don't find this particularly unsettling, though it has occurred to me that it's probably strange.

I tend to think of myself as many different people at once, and I can carry on very lively discussions with myself in this way. Because of this, I think of myself in every way possible, in turns: first person singular (normal), second person singular (one of my "selves" addressing another), third person singular (one "self" speaking to another about a third one), first person plural (referring to the entire group of "selves"), second person plural (one "self" addressing two or more others) and third person plural (I am describing my other "selves" to you now). I think I have done this since puberty, which is strange considering most of my more objectionable AS symptoms disappeared at that time, but it may have started earlier than that. I probably developed this ability as a defensive measure against loneliness, since I have always had few friends.

I do not believe this is a result of Dissociative Identity Disorder, however. With DID, the waking "self" is usually unaware of the other personalities, whereas the others are usually well aware of each other, and each of them tend to think of themselves as individuals. I do not think in this way; I am completely aware that each of my personalities are part of a whole, and I can choose to create new personalities or delete unwanted ones on a whim. - LJS

I do first and second person. First person whenever I'm relating to something external such as a Match problem where I'd think "So I will use the differential to solve for x" or "I don't know why my mom wakes me up when theres nothing to do" but second person when I'm motivating myself or assuring myself such as "Come on you know this, this is a cake walk for you..."

I think in the plural, too. "Let's do this, let's do that."

I've been interested in multiple personalities since I saw The Three Faces of Eve on TV. I've never felt that it applied to me but I have had the feeling that there was a part of me missing, like I was the core personality but the one who takes over in stressful situations was not there.

We is first person plural.

ruveyn