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[terrenepixy.livejournal.com]

okay, so im not sure how this works, but here goes.

i found this community through saturniakitty (sorry, not so good with the l/j tags) on a fake l/j-er community, and reading through this ive become a bit confused as to my own situation.

ive always felt like there are others in my head and/or my body, ever since i was little. ive been told that i talk to someone when there's no one there, but i think that there is someone there or i don't even remember having that conversation. i also go through personality changes- i was diagnosed as bipolar, which seems to be explination enough for family and doctors, but it doesn't quite explain it all for me. ill be talking to someone and ill switch to someone else, sometimes making it a bit more confusing for people who don't know that i do that. there was even a point that i was "flickering" between three main, at which point i withdrew and became anti-social because it was easier. for a while i was explaining it to myself as manifestations of former lives and/or other beings (im pagan, so it fits with my belief system) but even that doesn't quite fit.

is there any chance that i /could/ be a multiple?

im kind of just looking for an explination. it gets difficult for me to deal with changing or flickering, and anything that makes sense might help me cope.

Comments

[melange-fiesta.livejournal.com]

I would say that multiplicity is definitely a possibility here. I also agree that trying to establish communication might be a good idea. Try speaking words out loud to the others, or writing them a note, or something similar.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Who are the others? Do you know them? Our early experience was of feeling that there were other people within and around us, having their own individual preferences and reactions to things. Sometimes they'd 'become us,' which was excusable when we were little as playing pretend and imaginary friends (although every time we tried to make up an imaginary friend, they never quite felt real in the same way the others did), but we had to try to repress it as we got older. I'm not sure how similar this is to your situation; you're the only one(s) who can ultimately determine what you are, but, as others have said, multiplicity is one thing which can account for this. I encourage you to look around the Internet and read up on multiplicity, and see if it sounds like you. The userinfo for this community lists some helpful links.

Welcome

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The only criterion we have ever been able to ascertain for multiplicity is sensing or perceiving other presences besides your own, sometimes using your body or present in it along with yourself. Memory loss, a history of child abuse, and difficulty coping with activities of daily living or interactions with the world-at-large, are not necessary or "required" for multiplicity, although you'll read much literature to the contrary and some multiples do experience these things.

We have never been able to control our changes, but we have a code of conduct for frontrunners so that it's not necessary for a specific person to be at front. We also have good communication.

If you're having a problem with changes, a good practise is to establish better communication with the others so as to coordinate your changes in some way.

You may have other questions, which may possibly be answered here:
http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/
http://www.dreamshore.net/amorpha/faq.html
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/faq.shtml

[eridanusus.livejournal.com]

Was it fake_ljers and was it a post about me? If so, haha I rock. (I know I was featured on there, purely for being openly multiple. I find it terribly amusing.)

[saturniakitty.livejournal.com]

Aww, I feel special.

[submissives.livejournal.com]

welcome! from the "fakers" hehe guess im done being mad now cuz i find it mildly amusing that they have nothing better do with their time than pick on innocent people. We hope you find what you are looking for here.
~shawna of submissives/sweetssystem

[blindgod.livejournal.com]

Hmm I like the idea of trying to write a note with hopes someone may respond. Hope it goes well. Hugs

[changelyng14.livejournal.com]

wooo! welcome

im a faker. i pretend to have multiple personalities to get attention, (but one of these other people i share a brain with really has it. he never talks about it, thats how i know.)
:/

candy