Multiple selves

Do any of you ever feel like you have multiple selves? Not in a sense of blacking out and becoming a different person, but where you're fully conscious of these differences. I feel like I have multiple personalities that are barely compatible. It's hard for me to stick to one set of values and beliefs and I feel like I'm often questioning what I want to believe, what I should believe, how I should feel, how I should conduct myself, etc. It's like I have no solid sense of self.

first know that for many this is normal and for others this is any number of medical or mental health problems. even medications can cause a person to feel this way.....

Example all my alternate personalities have been integrated together with me so that i am now one whole personality. But there are times when my MS, Bipolar disorder, stress related disorders and medications can cause the same feelings that you have posted about here.

the fix for me and my treatment providers is a change in my medications.

my suggestion is contact your treatment providers. they will be able to diagnose what this is with in you and get you treated for it so that you will feel better.

Yes one other "personality" that i am always aware of. Shes the bad one. I named her Thorne. I worked on her with my last therapist. I either think its because I have BPD or it has something to do with my Ocd. I dont notice it as much anymore. Maybe its meds. Maybe its not I dont know.

What advice did your therapist give you?

(((Vernon)))

The no solid sense of self sounds a bit like BPD, but that does NOT mean that you have BPD, and I would not be qualified or able to diagnose anyway. I personally have felt some of the ways you have felt too, especially when younger. It can be an incredibly confusing world and self/life out there. How old are you? I get the impression that you're young.

Perhaps ask your doctor?

I feel the same, but I didn't "blame" it on several personalities, but two other things. I can't hide things from myself like normal people can. If I have a less pleasant thought, I know I have it. Everything in myself is so clearly visible to me. Also I dislike the conflict it makes having differing opinions for example, of the same thing, so my mind organized clusters of traits that actually match up.

These clusters I will sort of perceive as different personalities. I think it was how my mind resolved "normal" inner conflict since I cannot sweep it under the carpet. And in reality I don't really think we're just one person anyway. That is just a perception.

Look at those people who had their corpus callosum cut. Their right and left hand can have two different wills. So we all have this inside of us. We're probably even more fragmented than this, but something makes "us" work together as one. I think we're born without one solid self. And that it forms later in life.

Your post really speaks to me.

VernonJenkins, all people have several ego states. I believe that some of us are acutely aware of our different ego states and when they shift - which gives us the feeling of having many "selves". At least, that's how it feels to me. I do have a concrete sense of myself throughout each one of my states of being, but I do feel like several different people inside of one body, yes.

I'm 22 years old.