I have a separate personality that i cant control, what should i do about him?

Question

I have a seperate personality named Larry, he is evil and manipulative. and he is getting harder to deal with
and i'm 16

it started when i was little, whenever i got really mad or something, i would just push those feelings down and try to forget about them. because if i did anything about it i would get in trouble
so eventually i started pretending to be someone else every once in a while so that i could say what was on my mind, and even though i still got in trouble, it was easier for me to say what i wanted to say when i could tell myself it was someone else.
over the years Larry started coming out when i didnt want him to, and when he was out i couldnt control what i'd do or say
instead of saying what was on my mind, i would say things i would never in a million years think. it just kept getting worse and worse.
now i can keep him inside most of the time, but i still cant control him at all when he is out

Answer 1

if you are awarre that you are in your Larry state at the time than you dont have dissociative identity (multiple personality)... at this point i dont know enough to diagnose you.. but a therapist thatd you can go to will be able to help... seek a psychoanalytic therapist..

Answer 2

See a shrink. Maybe he could get you Larry out or back to the size he was when you were little.

Answer 3

Um maybe an exorcism if you think you may be possessed.

That or you need to start taking responsibility for your actions and learn to act as yourself rather than as your created "separate personality".

Answer 4

I do not know if you know of multiple personality disorder MPD. read the resource below and i am sure you will notice that you do need serious psychiatric help. I will advise you to see a clinical psychologies as soon as you can. It takes about 6 - 7 years to treat an adult with this condition. It can be treated so please go have some diagnosis done on you and all the best. Please read the resource below.

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), is a mental condition whereby a single individual evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.

Main article: Dissociation (psychology)
Dissociation at its simplest means that "two or more mental processes or contents are not associated or integrated." This definition assumes that these elements should normally be associated or integrated in conscious awareness, memory, or identity. [9]

The DSM-IV characterizes dissociation as "disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment" while the ICD-10 defines it as "partial or complete loss of the normal integration between memories of the past, awareness of identity and immediate sensations, and control of bodily movements."[10]

To dissociate is to sever the association of one thing from another. [4]

Multiple personalities occur when the identity of a person dissociates to the extent that they have separate existences with their own "identities, life histories, and enduring patterns of perceiving, thinking about and relating to the environment which is distinct from the habitual personality's mode of being in the world."[11]

Alter derives from alter ego and means one of the individual personalities in a person with multiple personalities. Early literature uses the full term[12] while the later literature uses the word by itself.

you can read the full resource from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder#Defining_the_terms

The major dissociative symptoms experienced by DID patients are amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and identity disturbances.

Amnesia

Amnesia in DID is marked by gaps in the patient's memory for long periods of their past, in some cases, their entire childhood. Most DID patients have amnesia, or "lose time," for periods when another personality is "out." They may report finding items in their house that they can't remember having purchased, finding notes written in different handwriting, or other evidence of unexplained activity.

Depersonalization

Depersonalization is a dissociative symptom in which the patient feels that his or her body is unreal, is changing, or is dissolving. Some DID patients experience depersonalization as feeling to be outside of their body, or as watching a movie of themselves.

Derealization

Derealization is a dissociative symptom in which the patient perceives the external environment as unreal. Patients may see walls, buildings, or other objects as changing in shape, size, or color. DID patients may fail to recognize relatives or close friends.

Identity disturbances

Identity disturbances in DID result from the patient's having split off entire personality traits or characteristics as well as memories. When a stressful or traumatic experience triggers the reemergence of these dissociated parts, the patient switches-usually within seconds-into an alternate personality. Some patients have histories of erratic performance in school or in their jobs caused by the emergence of alternate personalities during examinations or other stressful situations. Patients vary with regard to their alters' awareness of one another.

http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/ency/multiple_personality_disorder.jsp

Answer 5

split personality?
join the club. but i dnt do nuffin bout it
it does get me in trouble but i fink i can liv with it
for now neway

Answer 6

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Answer 7

if you truly had multiple personality disorder you would be unaware of another personality.