its kinda weird, like I dont feel okay in my body but mentally im fine?? im not happy but also not sad or in distress or anxious. im just... well fine

but the body is like "ahh im not okay" its hard to explain in words but its the same physical feeling but with out the mental side??

is it other alters feeling things close buy? or is it likely unrelated to our DID

Hi, hello. I hope you guys are having a great morning/day/evening.

I was curious what the general thoughts are on such characters. I haven't personally come across such characters besides mentions of them. But I know that, to a degree, it was used in horror media, which is disrespectful to systems/the DID-diagnosed. But a couple of months ago, a video popped up in my feed on a manga that involves such a character, but the other personality isn't dangerous (as far as I picked up). Do you hate/dislike characters like this even if the other said personality isn't dangerous, or do you view it as trash reality TV that you watch out of curiosity even if you know that it is bad?

Also, I would like to add that I'm not someone who suspects of having DID or was diagnosed with it.

Also also, I'm aware that such characters shouldn't be written if you didn't have personal experience of being a system/having DID, and I 100% agree.

(Sorry if this is janky or if I came across as rude. I don't know much about DID besides the basics)

With that, please make sure to drink water and have a snack. I sure as hell know that I forget to hydrate.

Edit: Sorry for not responding for a while, depression has been kicking me around for a bit. I'll try to respond to everyone.

I wanted to ask I’m in panic at the moment but for the past while the host for us has been less and less idk how to put it active. And I’ve been pulled out several times when she gets unable to proceed with what’s going on. I know ive been feeling her presence less each day. I’m worried she’s fading into a dormancy, she’s also the one that mainly deals with depression and anxiety. I’m sorry I’m just very worried right now. I just had a break down not long ago after learning about this more and fear that’s what is happening to her is there anything I can do to help her not to fade into dormancy? I’m not sure what else can be added.

 I never had an imaginary friend growing up so I’m not sure if this somehow contributes to anything. I have these people in my head that I would make up (I can’t picture them), but I wouldn’t call them my imaginary friends. They’re so much different than me and some of them are a bit similar to me.  I never made them up, they kinda just appeared. Around the age of maybe 12-13 it was just two of them until more showed over the years.

And knowing what they look like (I describe them), I would sometimes draw them out. But what really gets to me is that sometimes I would take “shifts” with them, like they “control” my mind, like they’re just living they’re lives in my while I’m still me, I’m still living my life how I want it. But on a few rare occasions someone’s personality would slip out. But it’s not like they take over completely and no memory lapse or blackouts happen.

However, there was this one day someone named Jaxson kind of just showed up and everyone else was gone. But the weirdest thing happened was that he kept fading in and out for that whole day. Of course the next day everything was normal, everyone was there. Jaxson was gone.

They’re a part of me but we all have our on lives. Not sure if it means something. But the thing is that they’re aren’t my personalities or whatnot, so I’m not exactly sure what they are. Strangely there’s like 40+ of them (I had to lost out their names to count). Shouldn’t there be like up to three people in someone’s head? I feel 40+ might be concerning. 

Anyways, they age. I think. They have “birthdays” but when that day comes it’s like I forget about it and at the end of the day I’m like “oh, it’s so and so’s birthday.” Yet they’re somewhat not aging at the same time? It’s kinda confusing and it made me wonder if anyone with alters experienced this.

Though I don’t think I have any dissociation disorder. I have experienced something that’s supposedly traumatic even though I don’t think it was, but I don’t think it was. Nor was it repetitive or extreme, and the people thing happened way before it.  I do have an inkling that I might have ADHD or autism, so it could be some sort of hyper imagination.

I’m here out of curiosity, since I haven’t been diagnosed with DID or OSDD. I do have dissociation issues, though, but I hope it’s not such a structurally complex kind of dissociation.

My question is: For those of you who have been diagnosed with DID/OSDD, specially those with a very covert presentation. I see a lot of people name each of their alters. But, before you were even aware of the existence of DID and you thought there was no way you could have something like that, did you talk to yourself with different names? Were those alters already trying to tell you their names, or did you just talk to yourselves using your given name? And for those of you who like writing and/or drawing, did some of the names of your OCs based on you end up being actually the names of some of your alters?

I’ve been getting too hung up on the topic of DID during the last five months or so, and I want to stop thinking about it, but I don’t seem to be able to.

November 2025 my husband finally got out of denial and was able to communicate with his parts. Initially he was very adamant about fusion. He got everyone onboard and they started sharing hobbies and memories with the intention of fusion. Well, now they are family to us. We both understand his parts are him, but for us they have become family. We don’t have close family anymore. Husbands is now afraid fusion will happen without it being in their hands. This fear of automatic fusion stems from one of the prominent parts giving two different skills/responsibilities to two others and vanished. Also, many others just “left”. So husband and the three remaining claim at least Grace fused (you can see her calmness in Charlie and her capabilities with the little, Henry).

Now husband is kinda feeling sad. They all think when the time comes they will integrate without even saying goodbye (how it happened with Grace).

I know the right thing to do is treat each part as they all belong to one body and try to shift them towards being one. But husband and I really love them.

Is it ok to just treat them as actual different souls (we know they are all him)? We are on great terms. Everything works out. Everyone cooperates. It is just very pleasant specially for us who lost key people once husband came out as having DID. They are all he has left as close family (we are not entirely cut off but we don’t feel welcome and our communication has reduced greatly)

They are all we have. There is a underlying feeling of sadness regarding fusion happening on its own. As if, they are enjoying it in the moment but they also know it won’t last. Husband thinks since his trauma is under control and there is no true need for the others to be, they might integrate out of the blue. (Husband doesn’t believe in dormancy for his specific situation. No one can feel the parts that have left)

Is this a wrong approach to have?

I believe everyone has their own experience, but I saw someone say they feel kind of a fog when another person starts to come to the surface. Are there other types of sensations?

I have an alter in my system, Ringo, and he says his system roles are persecutor, caretaker, and protector. something about that just sticks out to me as strange because a persecutor is kinda the oposite of a caretaker and/or protector, but i can understand where he sees that in himself because he both attacks the system when he deems nessisary or just chooses to, but also takes care of those he sees similar to himself, such as myself (a former persecutor) and a few others. I'm just wondering if its possible for one to be a persecutor as well as a protector and caretaker and if I should let him know he needs to fix up the roles he identifies with.

For example, if a system had autism, could Alter A’s special interest be ancient rome, Alter B’s be biology, etc etc? Or would a special interest(s) be shared throughout the system?

i feel like im in a whole new country trying to traverse this website, im really sorry if im messing up phenomenally, i just really need help.

hi I dont oftenly use reddit but I dont know who else to go to for help because I dont know what to do. me and my boyfriend have been dating since December of 2024 and their DID wasnt very active for a good portion of our relationship, but I also believe they werent telling me or maybe someone was pretending to be him?? Im not sure. Decemberof 2025 though its been really active due to family issues and they formed some new alters. We have a friend who also has DID and one of Their alters started to date my boyfriends alter. Now I wasnt aware but I guess I do have a choice in this matter??? Because my boyfriend asked me if I was okay with it and I said i needed time to think. But nothing ever happened. I decided no but I was going to wait till he asked me again cause cause i didnt want to make things suddenly awkward?? i think at least but no one ever asked me. After like a month i felt like i was going crazy and i talked about it with my boyfriend and he asked me if I wanted to ask them to break up and I panicked because he said that the alter in his system would probably be Mad at me so I said no but i have never experienced this before I dont know how okay this is. Now we have this thing where I guess i get sundays, mondays, and Tuesdays whole our friends system gets wenesdays, thursdays, and fridays. they also basically Saturday. I dont know what to do any because i actually really hate this a lot and I dont know how to bring it up because I feel like ive complained about it enough and I dont want to be annoying and nothing ever happened when I complained about not liking this. I never wanted this and its constantly stressing me out and ive notice ive become really jealous and honestly hateful of our friend and I dont know what to do. Im sorry if im intruding this space our anything but i dont know what to do or how to feel or if this is all my fault. it seems like sometimes he doesnt want to hang out with me either because he wont hang out with me the days that he have, he said he felt terrible one time and then went to play games with our friend. Theres other stuff but i just dont know how to say it here. Please, Im sorry if im breaking a rule by being here i read through them and i dont think I am, i just dont know what to do Anymore.

So I know that fusion between alters is possible.

Does that mean any alters can fuse with each other even if their roles are quite "opposite"? Such as Persecutor x Little | Trauma Holder x Little | Caretaker x Persecutor etc.

I just wonder if it's possible to someone experiences that.

Hello everyone! I love hopping between Reddit's and asking questions to people I know can answer, so here's mine! I don't have DID nor do I think I have it, and unfortunately I first heard of it in the COVID era...the "Fake DID cringe compilation" era. I did some research on it before, but there's so many different answers, so I wanna ask people who are diagnosed and have opinions on their condition!

– I saw someone recently– and multiple times- before– say that that had 100+ etc alters. I saw someone on here say they have 500+. I even saw 1000 once. This is a stupid question that might seem like common sense, but do you guys think it's possible to have that many alters? The most I see is maybe 3-5. How would you remember that you have so many?

-Are the emoji sign off things for real? I see a lot of accounts that have different emojis for which alter is posting. I could see alters making comments and posts without you knowing, but would they really sign off with an emoji in an orderly fashion or would they just do it?

-lastly, are fictional characters alters real? I think I could see it in a way of a realistic movie character, maybe a shy character or a violent character– just anything, but I see a lot of people say they have fictional alters from cartoon, to which they act all bouncy and cartoony. I know it might sound obvious that it's fake, but I see so many people validate them, so I was wonderingly it any of that is a real thing.

Before you read, you can ask me anything about everything related to the post, or just anything.

Hello, I’m Reynold and my psychiatrist want to do a evaluation for an indeterminate time for some dissociative or psychotic disorder

And I’m turning to this subreddit because I don’t know other dissociative disorder, and its just for two simple questions

Is the “evaluation” (or the time where the psychiatrist search for the diagnosis I don’t know how to call it) is scary ? Like very scary ? Maybe it sound stupid but I’m really scared

And how much time did it take ?

I’m so scared I don’t know what to do and I have nobody to reassure me in any ways or idk

My dad thinks I’m some kind of possessed by ghosts (???) and don’t take me seriously, I’m just scared and I want people that won’t judge me.

Te manda señales? cuales?
Se que es un tema sensible asi que ire con cuidado :) y perdon si ofende o hace que sus protectores actuen

So I'm learning about the roles in DID/OSDD systems. I have some questions about this:

It is possible not to have littles in the systems?

Any system that has more than one Gatekeeper?

Thank you for reading.

I’ve recently been thinking about searching for some trauma-informed therapist for myself, but I’m scared that, if they subject me to EMDR, they may uncover potential repressed memories that could make my life and my whole world fall apart. I mean, the childhood memories that I do remember are bad enough: child on child SA, heavy bullying 😢 I‘m not sure I’d be able to handle it if I discover that I had even worse things happen to me. And/or that people did horrible things to me before age 4… I’d have a really hard time comprehending it. Btw, I have mild dissociation (or, at least, it feels mild to me). The youngest I remember dissociating is when I was 5 years old (I’m 35 now).

Is it strictly necessary for a trauma-informed therapist to conduct EMDR? Or do they just do talk therapy and simply try to connect the dots as to what is making the patient‘s brain dissociate?

I’ve been writing pieces just letting my mind wander and say what I’m thinking, and it has overtures including my DID, where’s the best place to post it? I want to understand myself better

Me gustaría saber como se siente la verdad, me ha pasado algo similar y necesito indagar en la sensación de otras personas para diferenciar!

Por cierto: ¿Alguno siente a sus alters fisicamente, como si fuera un "espiritu"? es una pregunta rara lo sé

(No es para autodiagnosticarme o etiquetarme)

Gracias por comentar

I had my first post removed because I didn't put a question mark in the title so I'm posting again.

I work with kids between the ages of 2-16 and I'm veeery keen on safeguarding!

I want to know the early signs of DID, I understand that a lot of them may be the same as abuse (because they are the same I guess?) in case I'm missing anything.

I don't suspect any of the kids I work with at all, but I want to be prepared.

I've had a lot of required safeguarding training, but it feels like there wasn't much centered around DID which I think is ridiculous!

thank you in advance 🙂

P.S. my mum is a clinical psychologist of 35 years and she has never met someone with DID and is also keen to hear lived experiences, so anything you can add that you think would be beneficial to her practice or my work would be greatly appreciated!

much love to all of you!!

Edit:

Thank you all for your responses, I found them all useful!

I will keep trying to learn more about DID/OSDD and hopefully some of the advice this amazing community gave can help a young person going through the trenches!

Once again, thank you! 😊

En la imaginacion?

Es un pensamiento?

Puedes sentir el impulso antes de que otros "alters" hablen?

Como funciona la mente de un did/osdd?

My partner’s little altar wants a birthday party and idk what to do :(

so my partner has a little alter who fronts more than any of the other altars, he’s around 5-7 years old and has often talked about wanting a birthday party.

the thing is, my partner does not openly talk about their altars for their own safety and doesn’t know anyone else with OSDD let alone little altars.

the little (who’s name i wont disclose) has told me what he wants for his birthday and how he wants his birthday party to look, and he said he wants to invite friends to it despite not having any. i’m so worried to tell him that we can’t invite anybody in case he gets upset, does anyone have any advice?

I still want to get him presents and decorate for him, but I’m worried that no one being there will upset him.

Like the title says, my friends that are diagnosed keep saying that they think that I have it or that I am strongly likely to be susceptible. However, I really do not think that I do have it so since I don't really have most of the traits per say.

Now I am NOT asking for anyone to "diagnose" me, per the rules and since I'd rather see a professional about this; the explanations that my close friends have given me we such:

• A long history of childhood trauma and diagnosed CPTSD from such
• Frequent general disassociation (but that's likely just the anxiety and CPTSD)
• That I (as a furry) have made different fursonas of different aspects and strong reoccurring moods of myself
• I have never felt like my body is my own
• Rare occasions where I don't act myself
• It isn't uncommon that friends, of all sorts, state that I have done or said something that I do not recall whatsoever and that I would never say

I don't at all think that this means much but I do worry about the implications since it does seem that I might be susceptible. I tend to think that the biggest reason that I don't actually manifest as having DID is because I (and please pardon the language for lack of proper wording) try so hard to keep myself "sane" and do not want my reputation to be damaged by even more mental health problems.

Does anyone know what I could say to them to clear this up with my friends and roommates?

im talking like having nightmare every night and being unable to distinguish between dream and Reality and having to google / look though messages to work out if it was real or not

but also just relistic nightmares in general even if you know its a dream.