Mental psychotic Alters

A person with dissociative identity disorder (DID), or a similar form of Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (previously called Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, or DDNOS-1) has a fragmented personality. A person with DID experiences himself or herself as having separate identities, known as alters, or alternate identities, and previously known as personalities.

Each can function independently. All the alters together make up the person's whole personality. Alters typically develop from dissociation caused by prolonged early childhood trauma, although attachment problems and persistent neglect in very early childhood are also known factors. Once a person has DID, new alters can be created at any age, but are less commonly created in adults.

People with alters may refer to alters as "parts inside, aspects, facets, ways of being, voices, multiples, selves, ages of me, people, persons, individuals, spirits, demons, others," etc. 

Alter identities are sometimes incorrectly referred to as ego states, or even alter egos, but these states exist in people without alters and do not involve amnesia, dissociative symptoms, or clinical distress.

Groups of inner characters based on fictional sources and/or based on real people/idealized versions of real people are particularly common in MD. MD is far less recognized than DID and OSDD, this has led to some maladaptive daydreamers to confuse their inner characters with alters, and because alters are unique to DID and OSDD1b, this has caused some people to incorrectly self-diagnose DID or OSDD-1b instead of MD.

Maladaptive daydreaming is a behavioral addiction which was first recognized as a probable mental disorder in 2002, by DID specialist Eli Somers ADHD is extremely common in people with MD, and ADHD's memory problems that can be mistaken for amnesia. 

The information here on types of alters is relevant only to alters; the differences between the inner characters found in maladaptive daydreaming and alters found in DID/OSDD1 can be found on the 

Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale. Inner characters in MD do not follow the same subjective logic or creation/fusion rules as alters caused by DID, for example alters can only fuse together as a result of extended healing, alters do not form in response to minor stressors but only as a survival strategy. 

Poly-fragmented dissociative identity disorder or OSDD A person with DID or DDNOS is said to be poly-fragmented if they have a very large number of alters or parts. Some professionals refer to people with over 100 alters/parts as poly-fragmented multiples, although others use the term poly-fragmented to refer to "dozens" of alters.

This large number typically include many personality fragments. Several different parts may use the same name or have no name.

 Alters or parts may be arranged in many different ways internally, e.g., hidden behind other parts, or within a hierarchy of parts arranged in layers or levels.

A large number of alters and fragments results in less obvious physical signs of switching. Trauma which is "severe and long-lasting" produces the most splitting, creating large numbers of fragments and alters. 

 Such large numbers are likely to be caused by highly organized abuse, e.g., cult abuse, ritual abuse, pedophile rings, or other form of extreme, sadistic abuse which extends over long periods of time and often involves multiple perpetrators. 

A person with large numbers of fragments and less active alters can heal at least some of them fairly quickly. This is because many of them will have similar roles and functions, this allows them to fuse together (permanently integrate) relatively easily. Kluft and Fine (1993) describe how a patient who had been severely traumatized had a protector alter for each of the 300 fragments holding her memories and pain. These protectors were all carrying out the same role, and had the same information as each other, so they decided to fuse together, into just one. 

The fragments holding the memories and pain needed to spend time processing the most significant traumas first, and gradually fused into groups of up to 10 at once.

Poly-fragmented DID was previously called Complex Multiple Personality Disorder (Complex MPD), but has never been a separate diagnosis. People who have publicly described their experiences of being poly-fragmented include artist Kim Noble, and Truddi Chase, author of When Rabbit Howls. 

How alters are created Alter identities are created to manage either overwhelming trauma, or changes in everyday life that cannot be managed by any existing identities. Some people have been able to recall and describe the child abuse which directly caused a particular alter. 

The child's beliefs and culture are known to influence spontaneously created alters, for example a Native American man described having animal and spirit alters which were created by a mixture of starvation, severe beatings and hallucinogenic herbs or drugs. 

His wolf alter was created after beatings for failing to communicate with the "wolf spirit", the wolf alter took on the characteristics he attituded to wolves: wisdom, cunning and wolf-like behaviors. The wolf alters both allowed for the trauma to be handled and was able to use its characteristics to diagnose illness and manage complex life situations.

 Additional alters can also be created by traumatization in adulthood if the person already has a complex dissociative disorder. For example, an alter created to handle sexual abuse may be unable to cope with increasing levels of abuse and may create other alters to handle some of that abuse. 

Organized perpetrator groups may intentionally create alters and train them to do particular jobs. In ritual abuse, abusers intentionally severely abuse the child until an alter develops. 

If the alter refuses to comply with the "job" or role they are given then the abuse continues until another alter is formed, who then faces the same dilemma. Eventually an alter must agree to ensure survival.

 Co-consciousness and Amnesia Co-consciousness involves two or more alters each being aware of the other's presence and being able to both be consciously aware and sharing memories for some situations or particular period of time, although some episodes of amnesia typically still occur.

Suicidal Alter/Internal Homicide A common type of alter.

If someone with dissociative identity disorder or DDNOS is suddenly suicidal, this may be due to the influence of a suicidal alter, although the ANP (host) themselves may be feeling suicidal.

Twin alters are two alters of the same age who are normally opposites of each other in views and behaviors. Twin child alters are common, for example one may love the abuser, be eager to please and have only positive views towards him/her, and another may hold angry and rejecting views towards the abuser. 

Demon and demonic alters are a type of spirit and supernatural alter but are not actually supernatural beings and may result from spiritual abuse and an abuser who blames the child for the abuse.  In abusive groups, a young child can be severely traumatized in order for abusers to intentionally create an alter, and the alter can be tricked into believing they have been possessed by, and have become, a demon. 

Some survivors report being dressed to look like a "demon" with costumes and theatrical makeup and being told to look in the mirror and told that they are a demon. Hallucinogenic drugs may also be used to cause supposedly "spiritual" experiences. 

Some demon alters may be told they are animals. They may be very intimidating, with names such as Demon, Lucifer, Satan or Devil, however they should be able to engage with psychotherapy, and all alters should be accepted. 

These "demonic" or "evil" alters may have the role of maintaining loyalty to the abusive cult which created them, in order to keep the whole person alive. They are often a form of protector known as a persecutor.

These alters are usually hurt children who have been tricked into believing they are "evil" and may have been tricked or forced into harming others. With "patience, persistence and kindness" they can be allowed to choose a different role once the person is safe from abusers. Attempts to banish them using religious techniques such as "deliverance" or exorcism do not work permanently, can be harmful and may prolong any internal war between alters and preventing healing.

Possession Trance Disorder, a diagnosis in the World Health Organization's ICD-11 manual has similarities with DID and includes a required diagnostic criterion which can include a demon: "Trance episodes are attributed to the influence of an external ‘possessing’ spirit, power, deity or other spiritual entity." — ICD-11 

 The DSM-IV equivalent was a proposed disorder called Pathological Possession Trance, which was merged into the DSM-5 DID criteria by adding the wording "or an experience of possession"

For Christian perspectives on healing trauma, including experiences of people with dissociative identity disorder and alters who see themselves as demons, see Not Demons but Dissociation by a priest with dissociative identities, and Christian resources for Healing (archive page).

Alters may be disabled when the person's body is not, for example a blind or mute alter may be created in response to an abuser's instructions, e.g. "Don't talk", "You didn't see anything", resulting in involuntary psychosomatic symptoms which come and go, rather than a permanent physical injury. 

These disabled alter can regain their sight, hearing, or mobility, etc. during healing, for example, after working through the memories that caused their disabilities or when switching to a different alter personality. 

This psychometric expression of the impact of trauma typically results from somatoform dissociation, which is when psychological trauma or conflict is expressed as physical rather than psychological symptoms; the Somatic Dissociation Questionnaire 20 (SDQ-20) is a screening tool for DID that assess physical symptoms only.

Severe physical symptoms may result in the additional diagnosis of Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder (DSM-5), formerly known as Conversion Disorder, which can also occur without DID. Psychogenic or non-epileptic seizures are particularly common physical symptoms in people with DID but can occur in other people.

Louis Auguste Vivet, who lived in France in the 19th century, was one of the first people described with dissociative identity disorder, and also experienced paralysis. Vivet had long episodes of disabling leg paralysis and sometimes total paralysis which came and went; this was related to psychological trauma caused by a snakebite rather than physical injury. Before the snakebite, Vivet had already DID, which was highly likely to have been caused by early and prolonged childhood abuse, which included him developing a thief alter to survive after being abandoned and left homeless at age 8. 

"Louis Auguste's case of DID was documented during the 1880s by his attending physicians. Louis was abused during childhood, became a thief when he was eight and sentenced to a rehabilitation center. Louis was bitten by a viper at the age of 17 and experienced leg paralysis, then he was transferred to an asylum to study tailoring.

 At age 18, he was released from the asylum, went to visit his mother, and continued his agricultural work. Unfortunately, he was admitted back into an asylum as he suffered from a conflicting range of symptoms such as total paralysis to completely no symptoms. This hemiplegia was however noted as odd as the patient could walk while under hypnosis by the attending physician. 

During his hemiplegic and antagonistic state, Louis was noted to not have any recollection of his stay in the asylum when he was 17 but had total recollection when he reverted back to his calm state. There were also records of him inexplicably losing and finding objects he had no memory of alternating personalities shown through complementary actions of thievery and of diligent agricultural work and differing somatic symptoms.

Louis manifested symptoms of DID which include a disruption of identity and episodic memory loss not caused by substance. Surawijaya et al. (2023) Disabled alters are more likely in people with related physical disabilities, for example the case of Margo, a woman with psychogenic blindness caused by DID also had physical eye problems, and had a child alter who could see.

Based on fictional characters or people known to the person with DID, these alters are internalized representations (introjects). They are rarely described by psychotherapists and psychiatrists, except when referring to survivors of ritual abuse. Examples in military/political abusive groups include child alters who believe they are Hitler, famous doctors, generals, or other military leaders. 

There may be several alters who each believe they are the actual person they are based on, and are unaware of one another - e.g., several "Hitler" alters in the same person. In ritual abuse with 'religious' beliefs, alters may believe they are Jesus, or supernatural beings like God or Satan.

Unsurprisingly, a person who has an alter claiming they are a famous person may be misdiagnosed as having Schizophrenia or a Psychotic Disorder, because claiming to be a famous person is common is psychotic disorders with delusions. 

Psychotherapist Alison Miller gives the highly unusual example of a person who developed alters that were copies of Axl Rose and rest of Guns'N'Roses band - and was misdiagnosed with Schizophrenia as a result.

 In DID/DDNOS, however, an alter can adapt their beliefs if presented with clear evidence that they are not that person, for example that Hitler is dead and the Nazis lost the war, because logical thinking remains. Note: Delusions can also exist in people with DID/DDNOS if they have a Psychotic Disorder or Schizophrenia as well. 

Alters are demons operating in the minds of human, may have different powers, or ages,  for instance much younger or older; a different gender to the physical body; different names, or no name; different roles or functions, either related to daily life or to trauma; different attitudes, and preferences, e.g, in food, or dress a different perception of their appearance, for e.g., different hair or skin color, body shape; different memories, e.g., some may remember trauma or events in daily life that others have amnesia for; psychobiological difference to others, e.g., different vision, medication responses, allergies, plasma glucose levels in diabetic patients, heart rate, blood pressure readings, galvanic skin response, muscle tension, laterality, immune function, EEG readings, etc.

Different alters have shown different results in neuroimaging tests, including functional magnetic resonance imaging activation, and brain activation and regional blood flow and differences in PET scans. The variability between alters is measurably greater than variability between non-dissociative people who are attempting to simulate alters. 

Because many alters have a very different perception of their body, they may disown it or believe strongly that it is a different chronological age, and refer to as "the body" rather than "my body".

Alters who believe that they have their own, separate physical body, can result in refusing to seek medical care, and self-harm or suicide attempts, in the belief that they will be unaffected since it is not "their" body which is harmed. This can even involve attempting to kill off "others". 

You cannot negotiate with an alter in the flesh of a human, if you do not have the power of GOD within you, or you can be hurt, harmed or killed. Alters who are determined to harm or kill the host (the person with DID). These internally homicidal alters may be unaware of the fact that they will also die if the host's body dies.  All alters can be broadly classed as either Apparently Normal Parts of the Personality (ANPs), or Emotional Parts of the Personality (EPs).  In additional, each can have one or more type or role, for example a child alter may also be a protector.

People who are "very fragmented" (have a very large number of parts) may also have alters that are a complex mixture of ANP and EP. Apparently Normal Parts (ANPs) Apparently Normal Parts of the personality have previously been called a "host personality"/"host" and may also be called a Daily Living Part. 

This is the identity who manages everyday life and does not normally hold trauma memories.  There may be more than one ANP managing daily life at any one time, each with different roles. An ANP may be emotionally unconnected to, or amnesiac for, past traumatic events.

Emotional Parts (EPs) Emotional Parts of the Personality (EP) "hold traumatic memory, often being stuck in the sensory experience of the memory and unaware of the passage of time. Tasks involving daily life are managed by ANPs instead, e.g., working, cooking and parenting.

All identities within a person can be categorized as ANPs or EPs. Despite their name, some EPs are not emotional.

Animal Alters are human beings involved in the occult who are shapeshifters into animals in the spirit realm to attack their victims using astral projection, through what you call chakra vortexes, which is are spiritual organs of witches, that operate as portals, to allow the high-level flying witch to release her shapeshifting evil spirits into snakes for the manifestation in the body of the victim. 

What is a Chakra Vortex?

The teachings of Chakras and Chakra Vortex from India is based upon a LIE.

Chakra Vortexes are spirtual organs that clone the fleshly organs of a human being. From the head to the underneath the soul of the feet, a high level witch, operating in a cosmic power of evil spirits, can release evil shapeshigting snake spirits into the flesh of humanity to cause spirtual diseases that manifest into the physical body. 

Abused children of the world of the occult may develop animal parts/alters under evil posession of their parents, because they identify with animals, in particularly repillians,  and consider them friends. Animal parts may be able to express emotions that the Apparently Normal Parts can’t. Animals like tigers may function as protectors, growling when an Apparently Normal Part is distressed. 

Alters may also become to believe they are animals because abusers either told them they were or treated them like animals, e.g., dog alters. Some abusers are known to force children to act like animals, for example making them bark or use a dog bowl for food.

Animal alters may also be created if the person was forced to harm others, as a way of containing the guilt of having to act in a way which feels more violent and animal than human. Complex trauma can leave even a non-dissociative person feeling "inhuman".  Animal or animal-like alters should be accepted, and treated just like any other alter.

Animal alters can be taught that they are actually part of a human body and can adapt. For example, a snake alter may be created when a child has arms and legs bound, and be tricked into believing that, like a snake, they do not have arms or legs.

Animal alters often have a definite gender and can present, and be accepted, as human, without the person necessarily being aware they are communicating with an animal alter or any alter at all.

For abuser alters that may have taken on aspects or beliefs of a past abuser

These alters are pre-verbal (cannot yet express themselves with words). They may remain the same age, or grow older in age and begin to take on more responsibilities. Their trauma memories consist primarily of emotions and bodily sensations.

Are a type of a protector, they help manage and care for other alters, and sometimes external people (for example children). They are often motherly, and may be modeled on a real person.  Caretaking alters lack awareness of self-care and become exhausted easy; they only have a limited role and have little capacity for play, exploration or socializing. 

Fictional Alters may be created which are internalized representations (introjects) of fictional characters. Some people with DID refer to alters based on fictional characters as fictives although this term was not used in literature on DID until 2021, before then fictives were described in many case studies and books, but had not been given a collective term 

People with Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) often have groups of inner characters based on fictional sources, but these are different to alters in DID because they cannot physically take control or interact with other, outside people, and are not split-off parts of the person's own personality, although there are other differences as well. Like any other alter, alters who are fictives can physically take control of the person's body.

The characters that alter personalities are based on may come from sources like nursery rhymes, fairy tales, children's stories or books, music, games, movies and other sources.

 One good description of therapy with several alters based on fictional characters comes from a case of DID in Turkey published in 1997: a woman aged 45 with a severe abuse history was found to have Dissociative Identity Disorder, and two of her alters were based on the classic story Snow White. "Two identities had been formed from childhood imaginary playmates: "Pamuk Prenses" (Snow White) and "Kraliçe" (The Queen). They both enjoyed parties at nights where the Queen looked after, protected and controlled the young 

"Pamuk Prenses" and enviously competed with her at the same time. Snow White danced and sang. When Snow White took control she saw her husband and children as "the relatives of that poor woman in the neighborhood" (Sad Halimé [another alter])... 

These identities had been formed at about the age of twelve; they knew the other personalities, but they saw themselves as distinct from all the others. — Tutkun & Sar (1997) -Some abusive groups/cults have been known to traumatize children in order to force them to create alters based on particular characters which suits the needs of the abusers. Ritual abuse survivors in particular report being forced to create alters based on many different fictional characters, including characters from Lewis Carroll's story Alice in Wonderland, which has been made into several movies 

An “everyday life” alter based on the character “Samantha” from an episode of the TV show "Bewitched "Charles Wallace and Meg (from Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 book A Wrinkle in Time) - as part of MK-Ultra ritual abuse

Peter Munk (a character from a German fairytale) who is "unemotional, obedient, lacking in self-awareness" and motivated to avoid pain, reported in a German survivor of ritual abuse during the "cold war"

Sleeping Beauty, who believed she was dreaming when actually working as a government agent (as part of MK-Ultra)

Tinker-Belle (from Peter Pan), in a survivor of Monarch programming/ritual abuse 

The Wizard of Oz, including the scarecrow (who was told he had "no brain", he was obedient and suggestible), the cowardly lion (who held the emotion of fear), tin man (who was told he had no heart - meaning no empathy, and as such was able to be a trained killer following someone else's orders)

All alters may adapt and change over time, and some may even choose to take on the form of fictional characters if that serves a helpful purpose. Dr Colin Ross, a well known psychiatrist and Dissociative Disorders specialist, states that a group of demonic alter personalities in a survivor of Satanic Ritual Abuse chose to transform their identities to become Ewoks (from Star Wars) as part of healing.

Fragments are very limited in their role, for example they may only have a small number of emotions, hold particular isolated memories or have a very limited job. These 'partial' alters are sometimes known as fragments.

Fragments can either have a range of emotions but only a limited life history, or a more substantial life history but be unable to feel a range of emotions (for example, always sad, either angry or fearful). Special purpose fragments are even more limited, for example existing to carry out a very limited role and never acting beyond that. 

Memory fragments hold a very limited knowledge of an event, and only experiencing very limited emotions. Several fragments together may hold a single event. 

This type of alter has the job of keeping traumatized alters from appearing.  They may also hold back memories or control which alters can take control of the body, and when.  Host, Presenting Part, Front Person, or Fronter - this type of alters are human- soul invaders or human introjects narcissistic people who jump into another person flesh to prevent them from progression in life using astral projection.   

The personality part/alter that "has executive control of the body for the greatest percentage of time during a given time period." A person with DID will have more than one host over their lifetime. 

See Apparently Normal Part of the Personality. Insiders This term covers many different kinds of alter who are not primarily responsible for everyday life, they often hold trauma memories. They often have been so separated from everyday life that they are unaware of the years that have passed and often do not know that the body has physically grown up.

 See Emotional Part of the Personality. Internal Self-helper (ISH) These alters are helper parts. They have extensive understanding of different alters and how they work together, and often help by explaining things to the therapist.  Also known as Managers or sometimes Inner Self-Helpers. 

An Introject Alter, is a human being that project out there human spirit out of their flesh to consume their victim, and copy the indenity of their victim to become them in there fleshly bodies.  Introjection is a psychlogical concept that refers to the unconscious adoption of the thoughts, personality traits, behaviors of others.  it can occult normal development or as a defense mechansim in reponse to anxiety.

These alters believe may they are another person entirely, such as an abuser or a close relative. They have the characteristics of another person, for example a paternal introject with the behaviors and views of a person's abusive father. 

Introjects which are mimicking abusers are trying to "keep you inline" in order to protect you from external abusers." Introject" is a term used in general psychology to refer to taking on and internalizing the views and thoughts of others without reviewing them. It means something foreign in nature has taken over the soul. 

This is part of normal development in early childhood, these introjected parts/aspects of a person can be either healthy and helpful, or abusive. For example, an adult verbally abused as a child may have an introject which states "nobody likes you" or "it's a dog-eat-dog world" - both of these would negatively affect a person's likelihood of making friends. In people without DID/DDNOS, introjects will not be alters, but become incorporated (introjected) into their personality. Introjects can change with psychotherapy. 

Alters may be soldiers of different ranks, or believe they are well known political leaders. These alters has often been created within abusive groups with a particular set of political/military or religious beliefs, the alters are indoctrinated to force them to take on the beliefs of the group.

They may have titles of military ranks, like generals, or names like Hitler. Groups which are known to have carried out ritual abuse using dissociation to create alters include the US government (e.g., MKUltra, which included many Nazi doctors operating on behalf of the CIA), neo-Nazi groups, and white supremacists including the Ku Klux Klan.  See demon, demonic and 'evil' alters, for alters which are copies of actual people see introject. 

Opposite-sex alters and different gender identities in alters Some alters may have a different gender identity, and/or genuinely believe that their body has physically different sexual organs than it actually does, for example a male alter in a physically female body, who may or may not be aware of having no penis (a severe level of dissociation is present in DID, which may include amnesia for puberty, somatoform dissociation causing a lack of bodily sensations, "out of body" experiences, and/or severe subs conscious avoidance of the body). 

Opposite sex alters are usually more like a young girl's idea of how a boy would be an actual boy, or a young boy's idea of how a girl would be, based strongly on cultural norms or stereotypes. Normally they have personality traits which associated with the gender of the opposite sex. 

A female alter in a male body may be very fearful or frightened, and a male alter in a female body may be very angry, feel physically strong, or be very brave. An alter may be have an opposite gender because of sexual abuse, for example a male alter does not have vagina, so will not fear being vaginally raped as the female body was.  

A female alter may be created in a male because that alter was forced to take on a female role in having sex with men, although opposite-sex or differently gendered alters do not automatically mean that child sexual abuse was the cause. 

Trance logic is characteristic in DID, and involves beliefs that are not delusional but also not in keeping with physical reality, as described above; another example would be for an alter to believe that they do not live in the same body as the patient or the other alters, and may be invested in killing off others, wrongly believing that they can live on without a body.

 Alters are the result of severe dissociation; they are "constructed by the 'logic' of dream or trance"and can be strongly influenced by a person's culture.

 As a result, alters can take any form; some alters may not view themselves as human, and may either feel (or fully believe) that they are not part of a human being. They may view themselves as having a different physical form (or no physical form at all, for example a spiritual being, this is recognized within the DSM-5's description of DID. 

Prolonged and severe interpersonal trauma can leave a person feeling "no longer human" and has been reported in people with Complex PTSD and OSDD, for example as a result of being a prisoner in a concentration camp, being a political prisoner in a country with a poor human rights record, or as a result of severe child abuse. 

Given the trauma history of the vast majority of people with Dissociative Identity Disorder and OSDD, it is unsurprising that parts of the mind may have taken on a nonhuman identity. Some examples include alters that identify as animals, demonic or 'evil' alters, spirits, ghosts or spiritual beings,, mythical figures robots or machines, or even inanimate objects. 

Some people with DID or DDNOS refer to such alters collectively as "otherkin", although the word otherkin can have different meanings, including meanings not relevant to Dissociative Disorders. Object Alter Alters which identify as inanimate objects are a type of nonhuman alter, for example a tree.  Alters can also be hidden inside animate objects, for example inside natural-looking structures in the inner world, e.g., mountains, trees, lakes or rivers. 

often acts in a harmful way but there is a protective logic behind a persecutor's actions. 

 Persecutors often have a distorted view of reality and may disrupt therapy or intentionally injure the person's body, for example to punish child alters for disclosing abuse that has been kept secret. All alters "should be treated with equal kindness," despite their behaviors, and persecutors are often seen as "misguided protectors" which can be negotiated with.

Some persecutors may threaten to "kill off" the ANP (host) and appear to have no positive or protective intentions, however these can still be engaged with.  Some persecutors may be introjects of abusers. Download Therapeutic alliance with abuser alters in DID for more information on responding to a persecutor. 

Protector Alters, are common, there are three main types: 'fight' parts, persecutors and caretakers.   The 'fight' parts and persecutors are types of EP which have defensive intentions, despite their often-self-destructive behaviors such as self-injury or eating disorder behaviors.

The term 'fight' does not necessarily refer to violence, but to the 'fight' reaction present in PTSD, which often involves verbal aggression.

A diagnosis of DDNOS or dissociative identity disorder is not associated with crime or "wild aggression". Therapist Jo Ringrose, who has considerable experience of working with alter identities, states that violent alters exist, but has never met one.

Protector alters try to manage rage and anger, and avoid feelings of hurt, fear or shame. They focus on perceived threats, and find dependence, emotional needs and close relationships (attachment) threatening. Protectors may view themselves as a very tough child or teenager, a powerful animal, or a physically strong, adult male. They can act internally, or show external hostility, e.g., telling a therapist that other alters don't need them and warning the therapist to leave them all alone. 

Defensive "acting out" may be directed at a therapist or others close to the person; the ANP may have no behavioral control or memory of it. However, the "whole person" (all alters collectively) should still be held responsible for the behavior of all parts

A protector may follow an alter that is "needy and searching desperately for attachment" in order to protect it.  Internal perceived threats may include the crying and dependency needs of a traumatized child part, which an internal persecutor may silence with rage or self-harm. 

Protector parts may see the partner of an ANP (host) as a threat, for example the partner initiating sex may cause a switch to a protector alter, who perceives it as an attempt to rape, and fights off the partner. 

 Communication and negotiation can improve safety, and no attempts should be made to "get rid" of any alters.

“With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression, they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women..." 

Some alters have psychosis or psychotic symptoms. However, many symptoms which appear psychotic are not. For example, visual flashbacks may be mistaken for hallucinations, and strange body sensations (body memories) which are physical flashbacks of past trauma can be mistaken for tactile hallucinations. 

Hearing "voices" is a common experience in people with DID/DDNOS, the "voices" are alters trying to talk, and occasionally may come from outside the person's head rather than inside, which is more common. "Thought snatching" (taking away your thoughts) can be caused by the actions of alters. Beliefs caused by trauma can be mistaken for paranoia, for example a person may be told that a "bug" has been implanted by abusers to record any disclosures they make. Working through the memory of the trauma will resolve the paranoia that it caused. 

 Some people who have been abused within ritually abusive groups may have alters who are trained (programmed) to produce psychotic-like symptoms under certain circumstances.

It is possible to have an alter with a psychotic disorder, or to have schizophrenia as well as DID/DDNOS. 

This appears to be relatively rare. Schizophrenia is a common misdiagnosis for people with dissociative identity disorder, although many people with DID/DDNOS believe they are going "crazy" they do not have a break with reality.

 Abusive groups are known to have created alters who carry out "jobs" which make a person appear either "crazy" or learning disabled, for example scrambling or garbling words and numbers so they cannot be understood, hearing high pitched sounds and feeling "lost in a maze" in the back of your head, making your mind go foggy or misty or being spatially confused and unsure what the truth is.

 Anti-psychotic medication will not "remove" alters but can make the communication needed to heal more difficult.

Alters who believe they are robots or machines, and have no understanding of emotions, have been reported in survivors of ritual abuse. These alters were told they were robots or machines, and were not allowed to feel any emotions, were trained to follow instructions and not to think, and may have been made to believe that they cannot move.

If a large number of similar robot parts exist, it is more effective for them to agree to fuse (integrate together permanently) rather than repeating the same therapy with each. Robot and machine parts are actually part of a person, and can be helped to feel more human, and to learn how to think for themselves, rather than just responding to the instructions past abusers gave.

Sexual alters may be created to handle sexual abuse and rape, and to keep that knowledge away from other parts. One alter or group of alters may handle sexual abuse from men or boys, while others are created to handle sexual abuse and rapes from women or girls. 

A shell alter is an Apparently Normal Part (host alter/front person) which handles daily life and is designed to hide the existence of other alters from the outside world.

Shell alters do not exist in DID, they only exist in one form of DDNOS (now renamed to Other Specified Dissociative Disorder). The apparently normal part (ANP) is a shell through whom the inside parts/alters act. 

The inside parts can come near the surface, temporarily blending with the ANP. The inner parts are not regarded as separate, distinct states although amnesia may exist between them. 

 If DDNOS is caused by ritual abuse and mind control, the shell alter is not supposed to know about the others.

These types of alters are referred to directly in the DSM-5 diagnostic manual, underneath the diagnostic criteria for dissociative identity disorder. 

Some people have alters which are all spirits, ghosts or supernatural beings such as angels or genies. These are regarded as possession-form identities, if a person is consciously aware of the actions of the alter then the person may describe themselves as feeling "possessed" by an outside person, spirit, deity (god), demon, or a "ghost", for example of a person known to them who has died. 

If you are being attacked?   the first thing will happen is the witch will enter into your life and tell you bodily they will kill you or make sure you never make money in life.  They will phone you repeatedly, along with other witches falsely accusing of things that you did not do, they will destroy your name recognition, creditability and reputation and write against your life on the internet, they will begin to cyberbully you. 

Witches like to bring oppression, poverty, backwardness, hinderances and financial class ceiling to their victims to seek to cause homelessness and cause them to become beggars on the streets.  They will astral project there human spirit presence into your home to spy on you, to get a hold of your mobile phone numbers, bank account information, pass words, and will file a fraudulent police report to shut down your bank accounts behind your back to cause the bank to close your account with the money in it,  they will cause the bank to transfer all your money into their hands, as criminals. and thieves to prevent you from prospering. 

Your home appliances will suddenly stop working, your lights in you Houshold will shut off without a reason, even if the bill is paid.  You will smell Sulphur rotten eggs, urine of snakes, human feces, cigarette or marijuana., or human cologne in your house.  You will feel a strange presence around you, or smell a snake around you, everywhere you go.   Your vehicle will suddenly stop working even if it is brand new.   

You will begin to experience slow urine drips; you will defecate large animal feces from your body.  if you have children suddenly, they will appear mentally dysfunctional, or they will begin to cry without reason from torment cause by the witch using astral projection.  You will experience weight gain or weight loss without reason.  Scars, Moles, Acne, Boils will appear on your skin overnight.  

You will feel a heaviness, tiredness, come upon your body, preventing you from walking, if you are employed you will be fired without reason, if you are self-employed suddenly your customers will stop buying your product and request their money back.  These type of activities and down fall are cause by high level witches operating in your life.