Hi! (sorry I don't know what category to place this in)
This has been bothering me for as long as I can remember, but I seem to absorb people's personalities? I'm bipolar with severe anxiety but neither of these things seem to relate to my constant personality "switches". Even if my mood changes, I will still have whatever personality I'm "playing" at the time.
Usually it's not people I know, it's only people I know of. I will have been following someone on a blog for a while or something like that and I'll pick up their way of speaking and opinions and interests and style.
I will do this with fictional characters a lot of the time as well, feeling as if I am them rather than simply relating to them.
I feel very confused all the time, sometimes I feel as if I do not even have a gender or sexuality anymore because it changes with whoever I'm projecting at the time and it's affecting my confidence and relationships with others.
Why do I do this? And how can I stop?!