[Xambgii]

Sometimes I feel like a separate personality resides inside me. Am I the only one who feels this way?
Sometimes, I can picture this separate person taking place of my basic actions. I might pick up and cup, and visualize him doing it instead of me. When I visualize, I still am my same person, I just feel as if he is a reflection of me. Maybe a life I should be living instead of this one.
Especially when I'm sad, do I visualize. I'll picture him in place of me so he can carry my emotions, instead of myself.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Xambgii

Sometimes I feel like a separate personality resides inside me. Am I the only one who feels this way?
Sometimes, I can picture this separate person taking place of my basic actions. I might pick up and cup, and visualize him doing it instead of me. When I visualize, I still am my same person, I just feel as if he is a reflection of me. Maybe a life I should be living instead of this one.
Especially when I'm sad, do I visualize. I'll picture him in place of me so he can carry my emotions, instead of myself.

You are not alone, many people feel this way..I did and do sometimes feel this way.

with me my treatment providers called it many different things depending upon other accompanying symptoms...

my medications sometimes caused me to feel this way
psychosis due to my bipolar disorder made me feel this way
it has also been called other things like

hallucinations
mania
sleep deprivation
lack of food
anemia ...
depression
DID
mood switching
schizophrenia
borderline personality disorder

and many other things.

my suggestion contract your treatment providers, they can help you narrow things down and get you into treatment for this so that you can start feeling better.

[Silversand]

Hi, i remember this first happening to me when i was 7 yrs old - someone else looking out of my eyes who was the opposite gender. Throughout my life at different times i felt him/someone with different thoughts residing inside me who takes over.
For me, it turns out i have a dissociative disorder and split off different parts to help me carry the pain and emotions of a not so good childhood.

[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

I too have the dissociative disorder but before diving in there and looking it up there are strict guidelines to the disorder, one of which is that the personality has to come out at some part taking charge and having its own defined personality seperate from yours. Or something like that.
I used to imagine the same thing in middle school. To me, although not to the doctors im sure, i looked at him as an imaginary friend. I felt like he lived in me and was with me, but he never came out. At school i would sit at the edge of my seat to make room for him if he wanted to leave my head and sit next to me. While i knew he wasnt real i always imagined he was and would talk to him to tell my troubles. I cant believe i remember that lol. I dont think the instances are identical but wanted to share my experience with that.
What you are describing does not sound like DID as you say you are you still when you imagine he comes out. As well as you have memories when you imagine he is out. But a treatmwnt provider really can help shed some light.
Another thing i remember going through, in high school, every weekend my brothers and myself would go to the theme park as we had yearly passes. They loved roller coasters but they frightened me. I would spend the whole day alone riding the rides i felt comfortable on, the simulator and carousel. I would go on them over and over and over. And i would imagine myself as someone else, a woman with a brittish accent. I would talk as if someone was there with me and always had the accent. I probably looked crazy. A 15 year old girl going on the carousel 5 times in a row talking to someone who wasnt there and using a bad british accent. But i dont believe this was caused by my did but thank you for reminding me, ill bring it up with t

[Silversand]

Not all dissociative disorders require that a personality has to come out and take over. Dissociative disorder NOS does not. DDNOS can look a lot like DID but not fit all the criteria. There are several dissociative disorders
Not saying that's what it is...jus that's what i found out it was with me. Mine turned out to be a lot like DID.
take good care

[cryinglotus]

Originally Posted by Silversand

Hi, i remember this first happening to me when i was 7 yrs old - someone else looking out of my eyes who was the opposite gender. Throughout my life at different times i felt him/someone with different thoughts residing inside me who takes over.
For me, it turns out i have a dissociative disorder and split off different parts to help me carry the pain and emotions of a not so good childhood.

Hey, I'm experiencing everything you said. My alternate (don't know if this is the right term) is of the opposite gender too, and he takes over whenever I am at my weakest. I would say both of them coexist at the same time because no one completely dominates the other. In mathematical terms, I would say he's a subset of me. I have not gotten myself checked and diagnosed for anything yet though. Argh this is scary. Can I talk to you more about this?