When another takes over

When one of the others takes over...most of the time it is like I still exist in some form. It's kind of like I'm behind a curtain while they are there. I don't just "disappear". Does anyone have anything like that happen to them?

i have it more often (when it happens anyway) where i blend with them. i don't lose time, but i can feel them. sometimes i also feel it like i become them to the degree i don't know who i am outside of them or who they are outside of me.

i had an experience only a few times where it was like i was pushed a little ways backwards into my body or below my eyes so i was looking kind of up or like i was behind someone (who was invisible since i could look through them?) looking through someone else.

recently, it was like i was just in my head, not body, and my vision was blurry. i felt really far away inside (different from how experienced derealization/depersonalization).

i guess there are a lot of ways a person can experience it.

Thanks findingmyway - that makes total sense to me. I was really curious about this because I've read that a total "takeover" is less common than other things, and I know when I feel one of my others, it is like a severe mood change and I hear them, etc. but I am still there.

Whoever "I" is, LOL. Sometimes I'm not sure who I am.

my location calls this being co conscious.

there is also a new dissociative disorder...the American Psychiatric Association now includes a dissociative disorder for those whose whole or majority of their internal system of alters is like this, in other words with less than marked discontinuity in functioning, memory loss, loss of time and other dissociative symptoms....the new diagnostic label is OSDD (other Specified Dissociative Disorder) and sometimes UDD (unspecified dissociative disorder) is used. you can read about these in my link at the bottom of my post. your treatment provider can also tell you about these new diagnostic labels and whether they apply to you and your situation.

yeah. i had a similar conversation with my psychiatrist today..and she mentioned ego states to me..i assume because i have never really 100% had a take over before...but i think i have to talk to her a lot more about that and explain more or else i'm just going to feel confused about it.

In our co-conscience, it's like we are always aware...I call it always seeing...a mental link? It's like an empty "I" and we're the filling. The head voice changes, the way we walk, talk, gesture, mannerism, likes and dislikes changes, everything but the physical look....well, we have less hair on our body now...

Like right now, I'm Shelly, and I've got total control of the body....it does what I want, granted it looks nothing like I should, but that's not my fault. I'm drinking coffee, posting, looking at my nails, checking the hair growth, you know stuff. But things change and they always do...an other will present to do their job and I'll get back out later when needed.

I guess it would help to say that we are hostless? That it takes all of us to operate this system.

Yea sometimes I'm on the inside but at times have not a lot control of what is said or done. Hence, the brain moving before the body and vice versa. We don't need to remember everything but certain things should be remembered that are not when on the inside like that. Basically you want to get every alter to talk so that you know those times when you don't know about what all happened speaking only about trauma. The main problem for me is thinking about something then having it not done because a bunch of things happened in between causing a switch.