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Originally Posted by insideout
How do you know for sure if you have an alter? Do you record yourself?
What if someone loses track of time, people look at them like theyre crazy, like they are thinking, why are you talking to me you don't even like me.
They feel a presence of someone. Feel that person take them over, wake up not remembering.
Neighbors ask why they were out all night, saying their car was gone, but they thought they were in their bed, sleeping.
What if they hear that presence calling their name... what if you can't see them anymore, but can feel them there, watching you.
how do you know for sure?
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Originally Posted by insideout
How do you know for sure if you have an alter?
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The only way to know for sure is to contact your treatment providers. they can do tests that can rule out all the physical and mental health issues that are similar to dissociative symptoms like figuring out if you have alters and if so what kind they are or whether they are for example hallucinations, delusions or other physical or mental health issues that resemble having alters.
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Originally Posted by insideout
Do you record yourself?
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no i dont record myself, i learned I had alters when I went through diagnostic testing with a psychiatrist..the psychiatrist talked with at least two alters that resided with in me, by doing that he was able to say I fit the diagnostic criteria for having DID and having two alters that fit the diagnostic criteria.
I am in therapy and have been since I was a child, my therapists sometimes did record me and my present therapist does record my therapy sessions with her.
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Originally Posted by insideout
What if someone loses track of time, people look at them like theyre crazy, like they are thinking, why are you talking to me you don't even like me.
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I lost time all the time. no one thought I was crazy. they just thought like many normal people I dont have a good memory. I never talked to people I didnt know, for me it was the other way around, people who I didnt know were coming up to me talking to me and I would find a nice way to say something like "Im sorry what was your name again, Im horrible with names?" and they tell me their name and where and when I met them.
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Originally Posted by insideout
What if they hear that presence calling their name... what if you can't see them anymore, but can feel them there, watching you.
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I never heard my alters call my name, the voices I heard was like being in a crowd where everyone is talking at once but doing so muffled like where I couldnt figure out the words.
I never saw my alters and my alters couldnt see me. they lived inside of me and used my eyes to see with..just like other people use their own eyes to see with, they cant see their whole body unless looking in the mirror. the only way my alters could see the body they were living in was by looking in the mirror. most saw their own image of who they were, what they looked like, not mine.. example I wear make up but when I switched into an alter that didnt wear make up they would remove the make up and look like their self make up free, I wear contacts but most of my alters wear glasses, some wear wire rimmed glasses others wear plastic colored glasses. each one of my alters had their own way to be, when they looked at this body they saw their self not me.
I never felt my alters there. I didnt know I had DID until after I was diagnosed. and even then I never "felt" their presence in any way. I knew they had been in control of the body by finding a new dress in the closet, new jewelry on the bureau, stuff like that.
my suggestion - contact your treatment providers they will tell you whether you have alters or not and how to go about fixing all these things that are happening to you.