[Dylanzmama]

AKA "imposter" syndrome...
Anyone besides me ever had this?

[mimi2112]

Originally Posted by Dylanzmama

AKA "imposter" syndrome...
Anyone besides me ever had this?

Yeah. I believe there are doppelgangers. Call me delusional. Stephen King and Sci-fi writers speak of alien imposters. Are they called crazy? I think not.

I guess it depends on the context. It's never been so bad for me that I believe someone close to me has been cloned and they are out to get me.

[faerie_moon_x]

Hmmm? I feel my husband was possibly replaced with something that looks like him. Or.... something changed his mind. It could be his friend, the one who is an alcoholic. Myabe not aliens exactly. I swear he went from being my rock, a shy guy who barely talks to anyone, to being this guy who fiends off attention from strangers in one day, the day he started hanging out with this friend. Slowly he comes back, but... he's still not the same guy exactly. My mother-in-law says he's been possessed by the Devil. I don't know.

My husband never let anyone change him before. So, I know his friend is powerful and I get very concerned any time he spends time with him.

[mimi2112]

Faerie, do you think the "friend" is just maybe a bad influence? Like does he persuade your husband to do things he usually wouldn't do and it affects your relationship?

[newtus]

i had an extreme psychotic episode after i was up 94 hours straight. i slept 12 hrs or so straight after beeing up that long. then i wake up. i had no idea where i was. the year. the day. the location. the president. all that STUFF they ask you you know. i thought the FBI were aliens and i was in a house that looked like mine that was INSIDE a wearhouse in the desert. and my dad was an special FBI agent that shapeshifted into my dad and i was being experiement on. i yelled at him and said i was gonna kill him all this. i was screaming at the top of my lungs out of fear. straight fear from not know what was going on and what was happening to me. at first i didnt know i was ME. but i didnt know who i was. it took 6-7 hours to get back to pretty normal but 3 days to get fully back ok.

i think the no sleep - then sleep shocked my system.

ive had other things with my dad and other people. but i dont it being that bad before.

[faerie_moon_x]

Originally Posted by mimi2112

Faerie, do you think the "friend" is just maybe a bad influence? Like does he persuade your husband to do things he usually wouldn't do and it affects your relationship?

I sent you a PM on this so I don't hijack this thread.

[Dylanzmama]

I'm really confused cuz I was diagnosed bipolar only. I also had a TBI.
I'm wondering why my brain picked my husband for his trick. For months I was convinced that he and a double were switching places. Sometimes I would go to bed with the "imposter", not sure if he was going to kill me in my sleep.
And how this is affecting my relationship with him 3yrs later...

[faerie_moon_x]

Originally Posted by Dylanzmama

I'm really confused cuz I was diagnosed bipolar only. I also had a TBI.
I'm wondering why my brain picked my husband for his trick. For months I was convinced that he and a double were switching places. Sometimes I would go to bed with the "imposter", not sure if he was going to kill me in my sleep.
And how this is affecting my relationship with him 3yrs later...

yes, this would take a lot to heal from. I'm sorry you're going through this.

[Secretum]

When I was 11 (before the onset of my bp symptoms) I thought that my dad had been kidnapped by some monsters in our basement and replaced with a robot. If I didn't fold the towels a certain way, they would hurt him. (I had OCD-like symptoms at this time). It was scary!