I can't say for certain if you have DID or a dissociative condition or anything like that, but if you feel there's a concern then I'd recommend taking the DES test and review this with a psychiatrist / therapist. Just because the people from where you were in-patient misunderstood doesn't mean others will, though I think anyone would be apprehensive about seeing anyone after that.
The PODS website (
https://support.pods-online.org.uk/find-a-therapist) has a resource where you put in your location and they provide a list of "dissociation-friendly" therapists based on therapists who went to their training days about dissociation. It's UK-only, unfortunately, so I don't know if that would help you.
As for communication, I've found it hard personally. I've been informed by the others that they can't directly speak to me and have to send a kind of "thought message" to me so I can "hear" them, and that it's a one-way system. So if I hear a message, I reply out loud or internally depending on if people are around, and they can hear me when I do that, but I can't instigate communication and send a message inside for anyone, at least as things currently are. I also use a journal, which one alter prefers using.
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