Do you have Alter Personalities?

Do you ever feel like your mind is occupied by more than one person? I have three counting myself. I'm a INFJ personally, but my other two are total opposite and I'm like the median between them.

My alters are named Ed and Aiko. Ed is male and a ISTJ and Aiko is an ENFP. Aiko is like my Id or my inner child, while Ed is almost like a super ego in a sense and he feels all my negative feelings and frustrations. If Aiko is naive and trusting, then Ed is the opposite. Ed avoids relationships and is an overall pessimist. He tends to be the harshest critic. Aiko is the pure, innocent part of me that dreams of playing with squirrels and finding prince charming.

Now that you have the picture in mind, do you ever fell like you have other people inside yourself, that are in a way you, but in essence their own being at the same time? I'm not talking about DID or MPD. I don't have a multiple personality disorder, and I'm fully aware during the day. I don't have amnesiac moments. It's hard to explain. Post if you know what I'm talking about.

yes: sober brandon and drunk brandon.

You namd them, thats cute...
Anyway lets just make sure we are not confuseing changing how we act to fit the audience to a second or third personality. Also, maybe it is just some right brain, left brain communication. Being special great and all but multiple personalities can be harmful.

In theory and general understanding multiple personalities are odd, unnatural, and unhealthy, and in people with Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder, the fact that these personalities co-mingle in the same mind and cause problems ranging from dissociation to amnesia, then this train of thought is understandable. Both DID and MPD result from trauma and early childhood. The child will usually feel that it is unsafe in their situation, causing a severance between the spiritual entity and the mental entity which form the conscience of a normal person. The spiritual holds our true identity and withdraws to a deeper part of our mind while the mental entity becomes the ISH(the Inner Self Helper) and creates alter personalities to protect the true self through false-fronts, persecutors, helpers, handicapped, and identifiers who each play their own roles in protecting the individual. The first personality that is created is created in response to a traumatic event and assumes control of the individual's life. They exist unaware of all other identities, while the one's following may have more awareness and may maintain co-consciousness and intervene whenever they wish.

Multiplicity is the idea of many minds, persons, souls or individuals coexisting within the same physical body. Emphasis is placed on a functional co-relationship with shared responsibility and accountability. The idea is presented as an alternative to other more conventional views about multiplicity in which it is viewed as a disorder, often brought about by psychological trauma. It does not, however, seek to deny that trauma-based multiplicity exists. In fact, the philosophy doesn't exclude the possibility that a multiple system that was born of trauma may learn to cooperate and function in a healthy fashion.

Would you please take me seriously. Have none of you felt this way?

My alter-ego is Shadow Leopard. He is also an ENTP, and is like me in many ways just more charming and less assholic. Which... I find extremely hard to pull off. (Less Assholic. I can easily be more charming). I like being me a lot more :)

Originally Posted by branflakes

yes: sober brandon and drunk brandon.

hahaha :D This must have been posted by Sober Brandon.

Frosted Flakes are more than good..... they're greeeaaaattt

Occasionally, I seem to get a procrastination bug that goes against everything I stand for and seems to defy my very nature. It is definitely something I am not proud of and can cause me quite a bit of stress. If I could 'kill' my procrastinating self in my mind, I definitely would.

I think between Maethirion and Cheshire's posts, I've determined my "Asshole" is merely a defense mechanism.

Originally Posted by Maethirion

Would you please take me seriously. Have none of you felt this way?

I understand you and take you seriously.

I have DDNOS.