when i get severly manic, i space...
cant remember passwords, cant remember how many pills i take....
i start observing the "other me"
it has been called severe mania with psychosis by my dr's...
but sometimes i space just to cope.
is that similar to DID?

dissociation as a coping method is very common. The extent to which you utilize it is what can be considered problematic.....if it is interferring with your daily life.

Dave Baldwin's Trauma Information, Page 4 This site has enormously helpful links to dissociation information. (If link doesn't take you to correct part of page then look on outline under: Trauma-Related Support, then Related Disorders then Dissociation.)

I do not think there is anyone on these forums qualified in gauging where your experience fits on the dissociative spectrum. And whether or not your experience is similar to DID.

I do know how strange and scary diss. can be. Good luck and there are plenty of resources that explain this much better than this site.

[nothemama8]

For us we are seperate ppl inside a host body, not able to dissasociate because we all exsist
Am I explaining this right?
Angie and the girls

[RhysMadison]

I get manic mostly at night. My situation is a little different. My mania is triggered my one of my people, who doesn't like to sleep. Mine doesn't seem to be similar to yours though. My T thinks it's just low blood sugar as I'm not bipolar. Only recently had I found out who was causing my mania. So for me, when I get manic, I'm not "me". I'm mostly co-con. so I can observe & just go on w/ my life while my person is getting things done.
Mania can be from so many things. Bipolars I've talked to relate to the can't remember things. For me, my Body is taken over. Only a doc can tell you if it's part of DID.
Don't know if this helps any.
Love,
RhysMadison

thanks guys i will definately talk to my therapist...

thats what happens to me... my body gets taken over by soemone inside me... and i know its me... but i have no control over her actions, she controls me, i observe her... from inside myself. this happens when im super manic

my body gets taken over also....
i can observe me but i cant control me.
i do things, says things, think things that arent what i want.....and i have no way to stop it...
sometimes i cut myself just so i can snap out of it.
but sometimes its so bad i cant observe it, but my friends say im "a different person"
and i cant remember things or events, i cant remember events that involve celebrations with my family sometimes, or commitments i made, or if i took a pill or if i didnt...
i have to keep a log at all times of what i do at what time of what day or i will not remember....

[fairygirl]

hope this is okay
((CCL))
just wanting to let you know someone is listening and they care
KC

[RhysMadison]

Big hugs to you! I understand the need to cut, I don't cut but I hit myself. So I can feel "real", 'me", to snap outta it as you put it.
Hope things are going better for you.
Love,
RhysMadison