years older than me. Anyway I could talk and talk about this and share my various theories and what not but I think I have rambled on long enough and I don't wish to bore people. I just wanted to share my experience and see if other people can relate to me at all. Would people say this is more like DID than a psychotic disorder? Also do people have alters that don't feel they are a part of the host or who have separate lives to the host that they can return to whenever they want? And also does anyone have an alter with a surname? Thanks for taking the time to read this. Best Wishes, Frank Mental Health Links Frank, that sounds like DID. You experience possession states. When DSM 5 is published next year, DID-like DDNOS type 1 will be folded into DID, and the resulting broader concept of DID will cover your symptoms completely. You hear voices and see people. Those are common Schneiderian first-rank symptoms . Although these types of symptoms are often interpreted as conclusive evidence of psychosis, in fact they are more common as evidence of DID. DID is not a psychotic disorder; we are not psychotic because apart from our reporting subjective experiences that other embodied people around us don't share, our reality testing is intact. And at times the embodied people around us do share our experiences because our insiders come out and talk to them directly. Thanks Una+ for replying.