Can one have parts who don`t come out?

The question above...

I have voices...and also memories they show me of taking over my body....this is very strange....now i remember...

That day i found myself lying on the bed for longer than it seems to me....like i sad "hey! all that time passed?"

After a few days i was just sitting and thinking and found myself recalling myself wondering in the area around my house doing -something i don`t remember in my normal memory! I that kind of memory i was also seeing myself form aside part of the time...

But normally i don`t...really - i mean - no person can tell that i was behaving differently or called myself different names.
I do hear voices - and thoughts - especially children loudest - i had both boys and girls - youngest 3.5 years old. All of them call themselves my name+a younger age. They also call me by my name+26 - my age now.

to answer your question in the post title -

Going on what I have experienced and those I work with have experienced, and what the mental health community here where I live and work believe -

the parts do come out, the host doesnt realize they come out because they dont have any co consciousness with those parts. when some alters come out people with DID have a type of forgetfulness and a type of amnesia, that goes beyond what normal people have. So they dont always know when all their parts come out.

people - not - coming to you saying you did anything differently and not calling you by other names..

your system of parts may be set up for exactly this problem like mine was - to prevent outsiders from knowing the parts are there and you are "gone". these kind of parts who's job it is to protect the host against detection and harm are called protector alters. they answer to the hosts own name and carry on with what ever the host was doing at that moment.

I had 4 protector alters that totally confused my treatment providers. I would tell my treatment providers one thing - I was hearing voices and losing time and my alters would tell them differently -nothing was wrong, everything was fine, no I dont hear voices no I dont lose time. and all 4 would answer to my name.

what finally sorted things out was my treatment providers stopped going on what I was saying to them, noted the contradictions, sent me for cat scans, MRI, EEG's and a host of other physical exams. then sent me to a psychiatrist for psychiatric evaluations that included every mental disorder possible.

after months of tests I came out with a diagnosis of PTSD, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Depersonalization Disorder and DID. My protector alters could protect and hide me and my problems in face to face talk sessions but were unable to protect and hide me and my problems through the tests.

my having no knowledge / sharing of anything with those 4 protector alters that played a huge part in being diagnosed with DID. one of the diagnostic criteria is that the host must have at least 2 alters that they share nothing with and have no knowledge of, that keeps taking over.

Your profile says you have both schizophrenia and DID. having both those disorders can be quite confusing because only a treatment provider can tell you which symptom goes with which mental disorder.

suggestion - you might consider letting your treatment providers know this has happened they can help you figure out if its a part you dont know anything about or is part of your other diagnoses's.

Of course there are parts that we are not aware of but over time and with therapy we gradually become aware of those parts, it's all part of healing. Hugs ((((((((( ladymac... )))))))))))

Thank you both for the answers.

I think i did a typing mistakes (or one of my alters - if i do have them or if they do come out )- schizophrenia- I was never diagnosed with that!

I have parts that don't come out. They don't talk to me. I don't know if they talk to anyone.
I'm only aware of them because they come when my therapist and I do a "confenece table" meeting with my alts. where we call them all to the table and listen. We try to address the whole system, before we do any thing with individuals.
they come but stay back out of the light and just watch.
I don't have a lot of insiders, I was told I'm not poly-fragmented, wich seems to fit because I never felt there were that many in side.
But some are coming forward. I'm working on building trust, and making peace with them. I'm surprised at how well it's woking.
Still, some are pretty angry with me...
one step at a time, I guess.

jax

Yes. I believe there are parts that don't come out. They might just observe, or sometimes persuade me to buy cookies at store things like that but they are mostly shy.