How am I supposed to know if I have multiple personalities or

>>18488824

by talking to a psychiatrist.

no, a group of internet strangers cannot make you self aware for a mental disorder that most psychiatrists dont even think exists.

>>18488834
FUCK.

I call myself by a different name in my head.
And I'm convinced I'm trapped in this world because something really bad happened to me in the last one.
Sometimes I cry because I very terribly miss these two people I can't seem to remember- and I feel like I lost them.

I've never talked to anyone about it. I just go on normal like everyone else.

Even if there's some existential thing going on- there isn't anything I can do about it.
So I just focus on this life.

i had a friend who believed he had this disorder, or didnt, i dont quite remember. he's an actor, and whenever he lives in his alternate personality he says he's just acting.

maybe DiD is just uncontrollable acting.

>>18488824
My mom supposedly has DiD. It's not really what you'd think it is. The idea is that a person can create dissociations from their primary ego during extreme trauma as a coping mechanism. It's not so much an entirely new entity as it is a fracture of the whole, a part of the ego used as an escape.

The hollywood idea of "multiple personalities" has pretty much been wholly discredited. It's not like somebody with DiD is Jeff the accountant one minute and then Lisa the astronaut the next. I went 16 some odd years from my birth without knowing my mom had DiD, all I knew was that there was something very wrong with her. The same thing with my dad. That's how long it took for my mom to start seeing a psychiatrist who then claimed she had DiD. So it's definitively not something that's just obvious, to observers it basically just looks like being fucked in the head.

It would be borderline impossible for you diagnose yourself with it. I suppose you might try looking out for gaps in memory, apparently they're not something you really notice until you actually start looking for them.

>>18489278
Could you elaborate in the fracture of the whole thing please?

>>18489504
Sorry I'm stoned, I mean could you elaborate on the ego thing?