Autism Shares Brain Signature with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

[Butterfly88]

Autism Shares Brain Signature with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Very interesting. My doctor says I have bipolar tendencies and I do talk to people in my head.

 

[Ylva]

Autism Shares Brain Signature with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

Very interesting. My doctor says I have bipolar tendencies and I do talk to people in my head.

There are people who don't talk to people in their head?

 

[Butterfly88]

There are people who don't talk to people in their head?

I guess everyone does talk to people in their head to an extent but for me it seems different. I have tea with Hillary Clinton and sometimes feel people throwing crumpets at me. Do things like this happen to you?

 

[Ylva]

Pretty much. If I have a general sense of somebody's personality, I find myself having mind conversations with them. Maybe it's a kind of synesthesia. And yes, if the mental representation of the person touches the mental representation of myself, I feel it as though the person really touched me.

 

[Butterfly88]

Good to know, thank you @Ylva.

 

[Ylva]

Btw, I am willing to bet that bipolar and schozofrenic aggression also comes from people being aggressive (and passive-aggressive) at them to punish them for being who they are.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

I hear voices all the time.

They tell me its 'other people'

 

[Butterfly88]

I hear voices all the time.

They tell me its 'other people'

Interesting. They can't decide what it is for me, my current psychiatrist thinks it's a Freudian thing.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Interesting. They can't decide what it is for me, my current psychiatrist thinks it's a Freudian thing.

For me, it's other people. They're walking about all over the place.
You may have seen some of them.

(But i did use to hesr voices, mostly my name being called. Couldnt tell if it was real or not. Long time ago,stopped happening by itself.)

 

[LucyPurrs]

I have conversations in my head all the time and if alone, frequently talk to myself (sometimes under the guise of talking to my cats). Some of it is rehearsal for what I want to say to someone, some of it is just fantasizing. I have not been diagnosed with anything psychiatric ever.

 

[Butterfly88]

Thank you @Fridgemagnetman and @LucyPurrs for the information.

 

[granolaturtle]

I've actually suspected that there was a relation between autism and schizophrenia for a long time now. People only talk about the hallucinations part of schizophrenia, but there's other symptoms that wouldn't look out of place in an autistic person. As for myself, when I was younger I used to scare my parents by walking around in circles and mumbling. Sometimes I find myself mumbling without even realizing it today.

 

[Butterfly88]

Good for you for making that observation @granolaturtle.

 

[Ang]

Its normal to talk to people in your head.. when you daydream, you daydream up potential convos with friends, coworkers.. most people, even the typicals do that.. its normal.. whats not normal is hearing audible voices outside the head, in the actual ear. Anxiety can cause disembodied memories and voices inside the head. Not always psychosis..