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Originally Posted by amandalouise
for some people yes it is normal for others no it is not. there are many different normal, medical and mental problems where a person can have alternate personalities....
a few examples of alternate personalities recognized in my own location...
normal types....imaginary friends. parts of selves, internal critics that have slightly more separation from the mind other wise known in some locations as introjects.
psychosis type alters....these are alters that are part of mental disorders that have can present in having hallucinations and delusions....such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,....can be imaginary friend like or introjective like (friendly or abusive\critical\judgemental)
medication induced type alters...this type of alter in my location are grouped in with psychosis, the difference is they come from medications being the wrong dosage, use of drugs and alcohol.
dissociative type alters...alters that are trigger related take control when handling triggers, not imaginary friends, these alters are a very special kind, they have their own jobs, purposes reasons for being and affect a persons whole life not just one area of a persons life, mental disorders with this type of alternate personalities are DID and OSDD
we can not tell you whether this is normal or not for you, we can tell you if we have had any alternate personalities... I have had one or more of all the above types at one point or another. treatment varied according to what type of alter and cause.
to find out what types of alters your own location has and what is normal, mental and medical situations they categorize them in you will need to contact your own treatment providers.
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Thanks for this post it was really helpful. I do still have imaginary friends
but it's because I think I have this thing called Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder. I tend to sit there and talk to myself for hours just lost in my thoughts. I'm not sure if this ties into a possible DID diagnosis at all. I also don't believe this is a part of psychosis type alters. I don't believe the Daydreaming is that extreme. I do experience dissociative type alters.
Recently I've been having a lot of mental breakdowns. I'm not sure if it's a new alter or not because I've never been like this before but when I become hysterical during one of my breakdowns I will enter this state where I feel like I almost lose sense of reality. It almost doesn't feel real. I feel like nothing can harm me and I feel invincible. When I reach this point in my breakdown I'll start giggling and singing but then burst into tears again. But then I'll start laughing again even if I don't think anything is funny. During these states I end up harming myself and I always consider just ending it all together. It's like I'm on this natural high. Like I'm high on the adrenaline of anger and I can't focus or think straight and everything just seems so fake that I have this idea that if I killed myself I would be just fine. I'm sorry if none of this makes sense. My thoughts and personalities are just all over the place.
Also to add on to the original post, I didn't mention this, but sometimes I don't realize when the alters take control because they do it silently and other times they ask me permission to take control and I can allow them to. S is good for blocking out feelings of guilt and sadness. S is my favorite. The only issue with him is that he can get very dark thoughts.