Hearing their voices for the first time

Hello. I have not been diagnosed with DID. But I think this is what its all about. However, I have some queries and I hope you can help me. I had so many problems with my mood, that I thought I suffered from bipolar dirorder. However, besides my mood, my character changed as well. I used to behave like many different people. So, I was wondering what is wrong with me. And I started reading about DID, recognising that I have no memory problems (which I have now) and therefore I believed I cant have DID. However, later that day, the people I used to behave like, started speaking in me. And ever since I can hardly listen to my own voice, when I try to speak with my self. I hear the people' s voices instead. The people woke up again some weeks ago and started interacting with my family, and try to help me when they see that I am not very well. So, my question is: Since they first appeared in my inner world the day I read about DID, is this a game my mind created or could it be just DID? I need to mention that my doctor for the first time had nothing negative to say about the people that live in me. She actually acknowledged that they try to help me, whereas previously she tried to make them disappear through medication, believing I suffer from psychosis.

What you describe sounds very much like new posters here who are wondering if what they're experiencing is DID or not. "Is my mind playing tricks" or "am I just inventing all this" are extremely common and probably inevitable reactions to the start of getting communications from previously unacknowledged alters.

Once systems become to some degree self-aware and inner communication begins, it's almost always a jarring experience for those who haven't experienced that in the past. Additional thoughts like "I feel like I'm going crazy" may follow.

For many years, I read descriptions of DID and thought I didn't have all the criteria or symptoms to qualify. One of the primary characteristics of DID is alters and the DID itself remaining hidden from the part or parts who generally drive or run the life. I didn't remember having experienced lost time but In fact it happened many times, I had just lost the memory of that happening.

In DID, "The people I used to behave like" would be alters, which are also known as others, parts, system members, or the like. When your body behaves like that, many of us here call that fronting.

If you have DID, it sounds like your system has begun communicating and your therapist is picking up on the help and cooperation. This is a good road to be on!