Hello,
I am new at posting here but I have been reading and taking advice from here for months, so first off, thank you guys for that. I was wondering if you guys could help me describe this thing that has been happening lately.


I have been dissociating most of my life, I understand what that is and what causes it. It’s this new “form” of it that’s been throwing me off.

At my psychiatrist’s office, I will dissociate, which is normal for me. It's what happens next that's concerning.


I will be sitting on the couch listening to her and I will come out of my body, sit next to myself and talk to me about what the psychiatrist is discussing.


I’m aware that I’m talking to myself and that there really isn’t anyone sitting next to me (although I can see “myself”).


I am literally discussing with myself what to say. I (the “real me”) talk about what to tell her and go back and forth with the other me, literally having a conversation.

When I’m actively talking to the doctor I can see myself, sometimes sitting next to me, sometimes floating above me. I am not speaking out loud as I've never interrupted the dr while she's been speaking but the "other me" speaks while the doctor is speaking sometimes.

I want to discuss this with my dr but I don’t know what to call it or how to describe it. I don’t feel like it’s split personalities and I don’t have any history of that (my dx are ultra rapid cycle bipo2 with dissociative amnesia). It doesn’t seem like a regular hallucination, it only happens when I dissociate.

What is going on?