Psychology: Name the mental disorder?

Question

I'm trying to remember about something I saw years ago about mental disorders for the story I' m writing but am not sure if it actually is like this.

Not strong symptoms, but here they are:
This patient can most of the time live a normal life but there are sometimes when he sort of fades out from reality, starts to hallucinate of being another person totally different from who he is; mostly when he is alone.
Sometimes these ideas interfere with his life but he tries to block them.

Is there a name for this???

Answer 1

I think you mean Dissociative Identity Disorder, which used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder.

But people with this disorder don't actually hallucinate. People with Schizophrenia hallucinate but they are generally unable to function in a job and they have difficulty interacting with other people most of the time.

Conversion Disorder is something completely different; that's where somebody has physical symptoms that are in his head. Like having fake seizures or blindness because of some psychological trauma, and not being aware that the symptoms aren't real.

Answer 2

Walter Mitty Syndrome.

Answer 3

could be a conversion disorder, but usually in a conversion disorder the weaker personality is unaware of the stronger personality. aka multiple personality disorder.

Answer 4

Schizophrenia presents like you described...they're called fugue states---the periods of "fading out."

Answer 5

schizophrenia. they tend to hallucinate

Answer 6

schizophrenia