BTW you have to understand the reason for the US adding the religious practice part. The only reason for diagnosing a person is if it's causing them problems or pain, and it's accepted that generally speaking religious are to help people, not harm them. But that does not mean they don't have an alter. There are good alters, bad alters, very very good alters, etc. If an alter was created thinking it is God or Jesus or Mary, and it's soul purpose is to help the host, and the alter never takes control of the hosts body and does nothing bad except to on occasion send messages of love and support, then IMO most people would see that as a good thing so long as the host wants it and has no problems with it. That my friend is a religion, but in my firm opinion is most likely an alter. Is is possible that there's some kind of a God or super being and that some people are actually communicating with that being? Sure, it's possible. A true truth seeker is always open to all possibilities.

During my spiritual years I've had plenty of deity alters, God, Jesus, Mary, Archangel Michael, countless angels, even some ETs. But then again, by now you surely understand that I have an extended more flexible definition of the term "alter."