Hi, I have been reading these forums for years and with great pride have found myself among what I might refer to myself as maybe a success story after years of PTSD therapy with the same therapist we had started to refer to a complete human being. I had never had even the most remote posibility of an alter until the last two day when I started losing time and started knowing about Catherine. She had returned calls for me cancelled apointments for event gave hell to someone for me because she believed that person had let me down although I wasn't aware of that at all. I am completely confussed. This is not a part of my therapy at all and I am not even sure I haven't been sleepwalking. But it is so sereal that when other's around me had this encounter with Cathernine they were so sure of her solid identity that it must be so! She seems to be protecting me. I have recently had many stressors that normally I would have been able to handle by my mother one of my abusers well let's just say there is a chance that she will be entering my life again after I had done such good work to keep her at bay. let me say again.. my work never included Dissociative Disorder at all. The only experiences I had were the feeling of leaving the body as a small child and they were few and fare between. I am truly lost here.. Any help would be most appreciated...