You might be a multiple if...

Warning:
Yes, I feel a need for a warning.  This is a inside view of some of the behaviors that could have given me a clue but didn't.  For over 40 years I functioned as a multiple personality without knowing it.  Any real diagnosis needs to be done by a specialists that deals with multiple personality disorder or more commonly called dissociative identity disorder.  Most of these behaviors, I do not miss now that I am integrated. 



I did a search on this phrase before I wrote my perspective on this so here's what I found:
Individual perspectives
http://beautifuldreamer.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/you-might-be-a-multiple-if/
http://anonymzcoward.blogspot.com/2007/04/you-might-be-multiple.html

A medical view
http://www.medicinenet.com/dissociative_identity_disorder/page2.htm#symptoms



You Might be a Multiple IF...

~ you lay out clothes the night before and when you wake up you have no idea who left out those clothes.

~you look at the pictures of people hanging on the walls of your house and you wonder who they are.

~you write a letter and you notice that someone else added to the letter in another hand writing.  You are home alone. 

~you wonder who keeps moving your clothes around in the closet. 

~you are sick and tired of someone moving your stuff but when you blame your family or roommates everyone denies they moved it. 

~your friends talk to you about the amazing evening you had a few nights ago and you have no idea what they are talking about. 

~your kids ask you to remember something and your laughter is on the edge of hysteria.  I always joked that my memory was like a sieve trying to hold water.

~you are having a conversation and suddenly you realize that the person is looking at you strangely and says, "You just said that."  Or worse, "I just answered that question."

~you don't have hardly any continuous memories.  Memories seem to come in clips and sound bytes.  Whole weeks or months can be missing.  You can report episodes of black-outs that do not involve finding yourself on the floor.

~you write yourself a note, put it in your pocket and don't find it again until after it has gone through the wash.

~you find yourself driving in the car and you don't know where you have been or where you or going or why.  May even be a bit fuzzy as to where home is located.

~someone comes up to you and starts talking to you using another name for you.  You believe it is mistaken identity and they get angry with you for not knowing who they are.

~you cringe at meeting someone from your past.  They will ask you to remember something and you have no idea what they are talking about.   

~you sometimes feel more connection with an episode from the 'Twilight Zone' then any other TV show. 

~you make jokes about living life in the Crazy Lane.