Personality Disorders Support Group

Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.

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peixi 02/27/2009

i haven't told this to anyone but when i'm on stressful situation i imagine and act as if i'm someone else, it helps me cope with the fact that i'm not good enough, recently I've been thinking and this pattern has always been present in my life, there are four other "me" in my head that depending on the situation i can act as if i'm one of them, i noticed that when i'm in one of my "good days" i don't reach to any of these different persona, does that mean i have multiple personality disorder, or i'm just crazy?
thanks

deleted_user 02/28/2009

i dont think your crazy darl im not a expert so i cant say you have a multiple personality i have bpd myself n i read the little i did read cuz it triggers to read about it lately that bpd's i cant find the page but it said something on the lines that we adapted to what kind of person is supposely accepted the environment we are be it work or social

are you in thearphy? it might help to make it clear if you have multple

peixi 02/28/2009

i'm on therapy but i haven't told my doc about this...

SarahZee 02/28/2009

i don't really know much about multiple personalities, but i watched sybil and she apparently didn't know that she had other personalities. i don't know if that's true for everyone or not though. but also it said that multiple personalities can start out as someone pretending to be someone else and then they get confused and memories get put into the different personalities. so if you can't remember some things about your life and you are acting differently then i would definitely ask your therapist. but then again, it could just be an overactive imagination.

tyzz27 03/01/2009

As a person with multiple personalities I was wondering whether you ever actually heard these other vocies talking to you or each other? Do you get lots of headaches and have no real reason to having them? You said you can turn into these personas but can these personas ever take control over you? Like the others said Id be seeing and talking with someone personally about this but based on my own experiences I cant turn into any of my alter personalities based on the situation, while I may have conconsciousness it is often the alter personalities who come out and take control depending on the situation

peixi 03/01/2009

to tyzz27 (cool nick btw, you can get lost on the zzz's) anyway, i have headaches and i sort of "transform myself" into this different persona, like u say i maintain cognitive control of myself but thinking i'm this different cooler more self assured someone helps me deal with stuffs, like sarah said, it could be an overactive imagination, but is weird because there's always been 4 people in my head, super different from each other and its been like that since i started having issues with depression, what do u think?

deleted_user 03/01/2009

I haven't read this entire thread, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "You might be onto something, here."

One premature question would be, "What about what everyone else sees you as? Do you ignore it, and just continue on with this alter-ego? Is this a limitless degree of reality? Can I actually believe I am someone else and get away with it in public? Or, will I be stoned by all the villagers?"

I do believe pretending to be someone else might be an answer to my problems.

peixi 03/02/2009

i don't know if its a good coping solution, i have BPD but my friends certainly noticed when u know something is completely different in me, they always joke that they don't know which "me" they're gonna get on any given day

deleted_user 03/08/2009

I kind of have always had this, too, but mine is different in that I've never noticed the personas as actually distinct. I guess there have always been 2 at least, like a depressed on and a happy one, or something like that, but I don't know if I have control over them or not...

I guess if you feel like they are kind of taking you over and you can't control it, then it might be kind of like mpd, but if you get to choose when and where it happens, then it might just be a coping mechanism.

deleted_user 03/08/2009

I must say this is familiar to me.i have been doing this my whole life.I have recently talked to my therapist about it for the first time.She said it is dissociation.a coping mechanism that has served me well.she says it is not DID because I am aware that I do it.I have many different personalities that I pretend to be that will take over for me when I cannot handle what I am feeling.If I start to feel a strong emption,I panic and then my mind has a strong "pull" to dissociate and "be " someone else.I wonder sometimes if i have a mild form of did but am aware that i am doing this so I don't know.but I am interested in what you find out because I think it would also help me figure out what I have...hugs

peixi 03/08/2009

there is no way i'm talking to my therapist here about this, he is not even a therapist he is a psychiatrist and i don't trust men, i'm sorry to say that if anyone gets offended but i don't and i'm just gonna wait til i'm back in my country to start exploring my mind

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