Split Personality Disorder

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More and more lately have I been feeling I have more than one personality that can last from a few minutes to months until it switches to another one. One is perky and a bit hyper, one is snobby and arrogant, and one is wise yet a bit cynical. And it's much more pronounced around other people and it's like I have no control at all over it. I told my mom but she thinks it's just because I'm trying to figure out my true personality, being a teenager and all. But it definitely sounds like something more, especially since she hasn't really seen the full impact of them. So what do you think is going on? Do you think my mom's right or could it be something else, like split personality order? I'm extremely confused by this!

Almost everyone has different ways to act in certain situations. It is a way to cope with different people and situations. When a person has a true "split personality" or multiple personality disorder they do not know when a personality will appear or that it is happening. The main personality "blacks out". It is normal for this to happen so I really wouldn't worry about it.

That sounds a lot like me, only with me I rarely interact with people in person, so I can't really tell if it's as serious as it feels like it is. I'm confused too though, I did think maybe it was just my age, but I'm not sure. I hope I'll grow out of it though.

Agreed,
Dissociative identity disorder can be rather severe and at recent been linked with PTSD and Dissociative disorders hence being changed from MPD to DiD.

If you're worried, here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociati ... y_Disorder

Like blessedmom said, we all have different 'personalities' it may seem very distant to those of us that don't naturally grasp and group together emotional foundations.

However blessedmom, DiD can be semi conscious. its when a personality takes over another so severely - often this is an unconscious thing because it is under the category of dissociative disorders but if you're in tact enough with your subconscious you can have slight awareness. Hence why the treating of DiD is tracing the triggers, switched and consciously bringing for these personalities and trying to whole them, ect, ect. I don't know a whole bunch about DiD yet so don't quote me 100% on anything.

Nicely said, agentcyclosarin! I forget about Wikipedia all the time. Apparently I'm old.

Thank you.
I understand the "grouping emotions" into personalities especially when needing to interact with a certain crowd. Like through analysis you know crowd (group of people) A are happy, cheerful, warm and upbeat thus you gather whatever data you have on those emotions, shove them into a 'persona' and off you go to said happy land with merry little Emotion-Profile-Prototype-A.

Than, this group here - Sophisticated, serious, down to earth B creates Emotion-profile-prototype-B which is the more cool, collected, levelheaded persona.

By the way, never too old Blessedmom.
The elder are usually more wiser or at least less ridicules as us young'uns though I've met a few who prove me wrong. More balanced usually, typology development and all that.

Wikipedia is great.
Much like dictionaryDOTcom.

That's another point I forgot to bring up. I have had some days where it's like I can't remember anything and I have no idea what I did, where I went, or anything. This doesn't happen too often, but it does happen. And it's not from alcohol or drugs or anything of the sort since that's something I never want to get involved in.

Oh, and thanks for the link!

No problem. Again, this happens. Bad short memory, I have these days too so I wouldn't worry. If you are worried, bring it up to someone if you're seeing someone but DiD has a lot of foundation and root in past trauma and dissociation. DiD was something I did consider at the time due to my past but it was short lived as I've furthered my research and analysis other reasons took over.

I wouldn't panic or fret about it though.

I have me, the dire realist, and the spiritual ascetic. The dire realist and the spiritual ascetic spend all their time fighting over me. Lately the dire realist always wins , although I'd like to just get rid of both of them, but that would be the dire realist's approach .

That happened to me a lot when I was in high school because me friends' personalities kept rubbing off on me or something. Now I feel like I have a more cohesive personality, but I also spend less time around people. Anyway, split personality disorder isn't having more than one personality in that sense; a better name would be "split psyche disorder" or something like that. Have you ever seen the movie Me, Myself and Irene? That's split personality disorder, even though they call it schizophrenia for some stupid reason./

Its called identity diffusion. It's fairly common amongst AS individuals.