Ever had delusions of believing you were someone else?

Unusual Beliefs
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This might be a bit different for me because I also have Dissociative Identity Disorder alongside schizophrenia, but has anyone else had pretty strong delusions that they are a different person, or thinking they were actually someone else?

I’ve been struggling with delusions of being a fictional character apparently. I can’t separate myself from the character and completely see myself as this character. Sometimes it’s not as strong and I can recognize that it’s delusional thought, most times I can’t tell that I’m not actually this character. I find a lot of comfort in it actually, and am planning on changing my middle name to match.

Anyone else have anything like this?

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The difference for me being I’am this person, (and others too), I’m every bit them as they are me…I don’t see this as anything ‘abnormal,’ should it?

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Are you talking about DID? I’m an alter myself (a fictional introject alter), and I don’t see the other 16 alters as being me. I see us as very different people, not parts to a whole.

I was talking mainly about believing you’re a character from a game/TV series/movie/etc. I know and see myself as a character from a video game series and can’t accept that I’m not actually that character.

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I invented a ‘character’ waaaay back when I was still in high school because I wanted so desperately this free ‘Marvel’ He-man masters of the universe poster, trouble was, I was over 8 years old (by about 8 years.)
Sabe me, I made up a ‘nick’ name, and became 8 again. Got my poster, but by that time(6-8 weeks later, we’re talking slow man snail-mail era) I actually adopted this persona as me.

I’ve also had to give the ‘nick’ name something to do, so he got a business, complete with an employee (independent contractor) that also became me-hence my ‘nick’ name here on the forum.

Are they me, yes. Are they independent of me, yes. Are they autonomous (from me), yes.

Then there are others that are different than me, totally not me, but unfortunately, like a Siamese twin, are me too.

All except that one girl named ‘Tina’ that everyone confuses her for me…NOT me.
She is a real person that unfortunately for her, resembles me a lot (because we are probably related way back in another country on my fathers side)but she drove the same make/model vehicle as me, same paint color too.
I get the feeling she was a part girl, and not too particular about people, and I’m just glad I don’t look so much like her anymore because we are not one and the same in values, lifestyles or anything else.

Oh looky, it’s Toast Time…

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I thought I was the devil. I thought my son was Jesus, so I must be Mary. I thought i was a character from a scary book I had been Reading just before psychosis. I thought I was Peeta from the Hunger Games and they would torture me like him. That was weird, because the nurses responded by doing exactly with what they did with Peeta in the movies - put me in four point restraints. That was very creepy to me at that moment…and made me believe even more that I was Peeta. I find that I easily incorporate things I have read or seen just before paychosis in my delusions…which makes me avoid scary movies and books now.

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Just my thoughts …

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I thought I was Anne Sexton when I was in high school. Totally random and I wonder now what on earth made me think that.

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I wish I were healthy, let me just be a healthy me, for this topic no, I had other delusions but not that I’m someone else.

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When I was very ill in hospital, I thought I was being possessed by different people. I think that’s as far as it went.

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I thought that I was the devil throughout high school.

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I have only been myself but with differen supernatural abilities, like mindreading, communicating through radiowaves and walking on water.

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I used to pretend I was someone else and still do sometimes. This just manifests itself as thoughts in my head; I don’t act any differently. I also have conversations with myself in which I’m talking as if I’m another person.

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Yes,Ithought I was syd barrett, Edie Hedgwig, and many other people in the past but no longer, meds helped me with that, It was highly annoying when I stopped being the person and started to be the person. Id try to stop it mentally but most times couldnt

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how do i not fight with myself i usen to think it was someone else i treated them much better

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Sometimes I’d be a sportsman or someone with high social and economical status. Those people were very content and had quite a lot of power.

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There was no way I could argue with them because they were given a high status by society and I was worthless in comparison.

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thank you Otto that cleared up a thing or two.

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I believed I was Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead for months. I performed three sold-out concerts before anybody suspected anything was wrong. I still don’t know to this day what gave me away.

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I thought that I was going to be the next president once. Also thought that I was going to Hollywood to become an actor. It’s pretty scary when I remember this stuff

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Kinda I thought I was a reincarnation of someone else