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Originally Posted by MavriforceK9r
If you didn't truly exist then, you couldn't question your own existence. Do you hurt inside? Are you able to feel physical pain? Clearly you're capable of thought or you couldn't be asking these questions. Are you the one who chooses what you will or wont say or do? That is reality. I'm overly self aware which makes me want to question the existence of others but, after many years of being dominated by this irrational feeling I now do accept others as real. The only way that you could not be real would be if you were a fictional character or part of someone's dream. Your life isn't written like a script. You are the ruler of your life. You are the one who makes the decisions and directs it. Pinch yourself hard. Did that hurt? Can non real people feel pain?
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the reason I said only their treatment providers can answer that question is...
1 here on psych central we are not supposed to say whether someone elses mental disorders, alters and so on are real or faked. we have to take their posts for what ever they have posted.
2. there are many kinds of alters. some are real and some are not in the general grand scheme of things... example one of my alters with my bipolar disorder is not real though this alter seemed to me to be real and functioning just like any other human being it was not real it was a psychosis or medication induced alternate personality not a dissociative alter of mine, which all my dissociative type of alters were real. but the only one that could tell me whether each of my alters were psychosis, medication induced, introject or dissociative types was my treatment providers.
just saying someone has functioning alters does not make that alter real. theres lots of diagnosis stuff that went into my treatment providers saying my dissociative alters were real vs my bipolar and medication alters were not real despite my feeling like they were or not real...
its a hard thing to figure out so only that persons own treatment providers should be telling someone that their alters are real or not, which Im guessing is why psych central doesnt allow us to make that diagnosis..
what if someone had told me my medication induce alternate personality was real when it wasnt. that could have caused me more problems then good. just like telling me my DID alters were not real when they were would have harmed me...
my point I never tell someone that what they are going through is real or not. I only say whats real inside me or not real inside me. my DID type alters were real. my other alters introjects and psychosis/ medication induced were not really DID type of alters.
though they all functioned like a real person there was that fine line that only my treatment providers could diagnose.