Can you have more than one personality if you remember things?

Sometimes I think I have more than one personality, but I can remember things from my other personalities. So, would I have more than one personality?

Who knows, you'd have to see a psych.

Being co-con....we can maintain a timeline sorta with limited memory cells. Swear to God it makes us question our sanity.

Obtw...OP....your post makes no sense.

Well, I thought about it last night and I don't think that I have more than one personality.

You know, bpd, BP, and other forms of m.i. An lead one to think that they have other personalities because of the contrast in the mood swings.

Most of my life I did not know I had other personalities. My family was horribly dysfunctional. My Mom was mentally ill. She was diagnosed as schizophrenic when I was about 12. I now know she was dissociative. Dad was a work-a-holic medical doctor but he also had emotional problems and absolutely no parenting skills. If you had witnessed how my parents communicated with their children, you would have seen insanity. They must have thought that either the television or school was going to raise us.

After a divorce in 1991 I started trying to get treatment for what I termed at the time was a split-personality. But even at that time I did not have the memories of the others. I just knew because of my communication problems with my wives/significant others.

It wasn't until 1995 that some of the amnesic barriers came down and I remembered some of the things that I did and said in the other states/personalities.

Even now those memories are limited. But I know if the people in my life communicated in a sane way I would not forget some things.

What I have learned is that when a person is put under hypnosis (deep hypnosis), there is an automatic amnesia function that occurs when the subject is brought out of hypnosis. It is the same automatic amnesia that occurs with most of our dreams. The brain, subconsciously, sees dreams as non-reality and deletes those dreams from our memory probably for memory storage purposes.

I believe that when we switch into another personality that we are switching into a hypnotic or semi-hypnotic state. When we switch back the above automatic amnesia function occurs. We lose those memories.

For a lot of us there are not serious differences in personalities. The differences are subtle. So it takes good communication skills on the part of your family members to see the dissociation. Dissociation is memory loss/amnesia!

Its a scale so I would think so.

What do you mean a scale? I am confused.

How do we define a personality?

in that sense, wouldn't it be possible to have more than one whilst remembering?

have you taken the DES? its an interesting little tool that can help you understand your dissociative experience a little better

What is the DES? Where do you find it at?

Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II): Screening for Dissociative Identity Disorder and more

I got 51.07. I don't know what that means. The description is not very easy to understand. Then, I took it again and I got 42.14. I probably just have had dissociative episodes, but not actually dissociative identity disorder.

You would need to be assessed by a psychiatrist who is very experienced in both psychotic and dissociative disorders to work it out. Some people who have DID have been misdiagnosed as psychotic for years and years, and it is also possible to have both a psychotic and dissociative disorder. It seems from your posts that you have clear psychotic symptoms, so you'd need a thorough assessment to consider a dissociative disorder as well.

Where would you find a psychiatrist like that?

I don't know... but people in the know would know. My psychologist has found one that specializes in my disorders to do a reassessment of my diagnoses... but she has to be flown in from another city. People in the mental health field in your area should know.

oh man, i just had a horrible feeling that my therapist is going to think im psychotic
maybe i am, i wish medications would fix it though... they just dont seem to help...

the DES is just a scale to show more about your experience... its not a diagnostic tool so its not gonna tell you straight up whats up, only a trained pro can help with that...
score of 51 just shows that you experience dissociation pretty much above normal situations, atleast its my understanding...

i scored a 97 last time i took it... so doesnt mean i have DID, but just experience dissociation pretty regularly, i guess..
i think i botched that score though...

Mis(sed)diagnosis used to happen a lot more than it does now I think, ES. As more and more research is done therapists are getting more comfortable with the concept of trauma-based dissociation. That said, if you ever find yourself in the company of a therapist who leans towards a diagnosis of psychosis and is unwilling to explore trauma and dissociation with you, vote with your feet and walk the other way.
I have had to do it. Around ten years ago a therapist I was seeing kept talking about schizophrenia and DID as though they were one and the same. She was unaware of her own ignorance. Stuff all that crap about listening to treatment providers and letting them tell you what is going on in you. If your treatment provider doesn't know what they are talking about don't listen to them!