I used to fake DID cause I had a friend who kept saying I TOTALLY HAVE IT BRO!!1!1!1! Now I realize he was a lying bastard and I’m just a normie who wants attention. Though I’ve also found I literally can’t stop “switching”. I thought it’d stop when I realized it was fake but it still happens and I still hear my “alters” in my head. I also still have flashbacks and large gaps in memory.Because I can’t stop it, I’ve sought to find a more positive way to label this. I’m pretty lonely, so what if these fake ass “alters” were just my imaginary friends instead? My imaginary friends that I sometimes turn into, sure, but that’s just friendly possession. I quite like this way of reframing it, it makes me less lonely and it stops me from claiming I have some gay rare disease. In fact I think this solution is quite basedOnly issue is I feel like if I explained to anyone else “I have imaginary friends that sometimes possess me” then I’d seem insane. Not that I’d tell anyone, but usually when people feel you’re insane that means you’re insane. Am I insane? I can’t be cause I’m not like everyone else who forces people to call them these alter names and pronouns, I don’t have alters, just friends.I’ve already made up my mind that I’m not mentally ill, so don’t say anything along those lines.
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>>33858480fucking kids these days expect me to know the acronym for every dumbass made-up mental illness>theres voices in my headdon't worry, those are just ghosts :>
Those are called "moods"
>>33859332It’s more than moods for me, I forget my name (Or at least I don’t recognize it as my name), my interests, my values, even my gender/appearance. I’ll look in the mirror and think “Who the fuck is that!? Whose body am I trapped in!?”. Though at this point I rather think “Oh, I’m trapped in ___’s body again. Hello, ___!”.I know what a mood is. I’ve experienced moods, happy, sad, angry, depressed. These are way different, it’s just not me. It’s like a new friend.When it happens it’s a mix of scary and comforting. I’m glad to be anyone but me but also memory loss is scary.>>33859079lol thanks.>>33859120It would be nice to refer to them as ghosts.
>>33859686Larp
>>33859692Larp’s actually a pretty good word for it! Though isn’t that usually done with other people? Does it sound dumb to say I’m larping with myself?
>>33858480Dude, I fucking hate how faking mental illness online is normalized, and I'm especially glad you changed your ways.I see people all the time on fucking tiktok and shit doing the same shit with autism. Their only source: a random tiktok video saying "_ signs you might have autism!!!" or whatever the fuck.and then the minute they get caught people start to automatically assume EVERYONE with autism is a faker and shit, makes it more difficult for actual people with autism to get support, it fucking sucks. I'm sure many people in the DID community feel the same way, and just generally any mental illness that's been fetishized by social justice warriors on the internetAgain, so glad you stopped faking it, that stuff's really bad for your mental health anyway (that's what i usually hear whenever I see people admit to faking a disorder). If you ever feel like you might have something in the future, PLEASE speak to a doctor about it, and don't take advice from social media. That's really my only advice for that. Outside of that, I hope you're doing okay anon.
>>33858480PS, unrelated, but love the papara the rapper plushies you got, they're cool as hell
>>33862206Thanks, I stopped faking when I got away from those people telling me I had it. But I would like some advice on the question I asked please >>33862208They’re not mine, just a random picture I found.
>>33858480>>33859686>>33859748>says they pretend to have dissociative identity disorder>says they don't actually have it>can't stop pretending>describes dissociative identity disorder behaviours>what could it be?idk anon have you considered that it is dissociative identity disorder? it's either that, or you're an attnetion seeking faggot, which desu, most people with dissociative identity disorder are also attention seeking faggots, it's a very common comorbidity
>>33863624Same anon, I should’ve elaborated on the question. Is it ok for me to keep my “alters”? I mean I can’t get rid of them, I don’t know how. Even when I realized I was faking I couldn’t stop “switching” and having large gaps in memory and having flashbacks. I still can’t. So I thought it’d be ok if I just accept it as apart of my life but I don’t call it DID. What I’m thinking of calling it is just like, I have imaginary friends that sometimes take over my body and they talk in my head. And they sometimes make me do bad things but it’s ok cause most of the time it’s to myself. And I black out and wake up in places I don’t remember going to but it’s ok cause it’s just my imaginary friends taking me somewhere without asking first. Like if I just frame it all as “I have imaginary friends that possess me” is that ok?I’ve already decided that no matter what happens, no matter what they make me do, I will never ever ever ever ever ever get help for it. One, it’s offensive to people who ACTUALLY have DID. And two, they’re my friends and getting rid of them would be stupid cause I don’t have that many friends irl so why would I get rid of mine.
>>33863652It’s definitely not. I show some symptoms sure but not all of them. One symptom I heard of is DID systems have alters who self harm, one of my “alters” has only attempted it. So that’s a big symptom I don’t fit. I’ve actually self harmed before but it was me, when I was lucid, who did it. So yknow.There’s more but I can’t really remember them off the top of my head.
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>>33863692go to a professional you idiot self diagnosis will not work, because people are prone to denial you literally have said you play pretend with yourself and dissociatethis is either a dumb attention larp, or a mental case being in denail of their illnesstalk to a doctor
>>33863692Why is /adv/ the gayest board on this website.
