What causes adult regress?

Insecurity, fear, and anger can cause an adult to regress. In essence, individuals revert to a point in their development when they felt safer and when stress was nonexistent, or when an all-powerful parent or another adult would have rescued them.

What are the ages for age regression?

Littlespace Age Characteristics

• Little ages are the age a little typically regresses too.
• 0-1 year old🍼
• -Usually nonverbal but uses very basic words like “mama/dada”.
• 2-3 year olds 🌸
• –More verbal than younger ones but there a still lots of baby talk.
• 4 years old 🦋

What means Agere sequitur esse?

doing follows being
From Latin AGERE SEQUITUR ESSE agere sequitur esse (“doing follows being”).

Can you age regress if you are mentally ill?

“You can only age regress if you’re mentally ill/Age regression is a mental illness”- Neither of these are true, as you can regress even if you’re neurotypical. Age regression is not a type of mental illness but is instead a coping strategy/therapy method/stress reliever.

Do you have to have a bad childhood to regress?

You don’t need someone to be taking care of you in order to regress, because regression is based off you, your mental state and your coping mechanisms/therapeutic methods. “You must have had a bad childhood in order to age regress”- Actually, you can have had a perfectly normal childhood and still regress!

What is age regression and what causes it?

Age regression could be a symptom of one of these conditions: Age regression may occur in personality disorders when people come face to face with distressing memories or triggers. In this case, the age regression may be spontaneous. What’s more, some individuals may begin to revert to a younger age as they grow older.

Does age regression require you to have a caregiver?

“Age Regression requires you to have a ‘Caregiver’”- This is also incorrect! You don’t need someone to be taking care of you in order to regress, because regression is based off you, your mental state and your coping mechanisms/therapeutic methods.