Is there something seriously wrong with my friend?

Question

Well my friend makes many accounts on this site me and her both go on (Gaiaonline.com). It's okay to have extra accounts and just put on there your main account's username, but she makes extra ones and then pretends to be someone else. For instance, if her name is Marry and she's 16 she puts in her profile on another account "Hi I'm Linda and I'm 14 years old". I know for sure these are here because she told me they are. She also makes up a whole different interests and family etc etc. But the weird thing is though is that she tricks friends like myself by talking to them on those accounts like a totally different person. For example, she pretended she was her pretend cousin Evan and talked to me on MSN for a while until I found out it was really her. She takes all of this lightly and even laughs about it but I think she might have something like multiple personality disorder. What do you think? Should I talk to her about it?

Answer 1

wow there's a lot of stuff that could be fact: 1.She's friendly and wants to be a funny friend. 2. She's going crazy 3. Something in her family or history that's disturbing her. 4. She has that multiple disorder thing you said. 5. She's just weird and that's the way she rolls. Just talk to her see wat she says but nicely tho don't make her mad it'll ruin your friendship

Answer 2

too many people are doing the same thing as your friend...it is ok if someone is trying to be not telling everyone too much information..because it is the internet...but when someone makes up a full id and starts playing with people's minds....

Answer 3

This is more common than you think....  Many people create multiple account and let each one represent a segment of their personality or a secret desire.  

This is one of the very good reason why one should not take anything we hear on-line seriously, positively or negatively.  Unless she is doing this to deceive someone, cause harm, or do anything illegal, just let it be.  She may just be getting wild with her imagination.

Think about it....  did you ever pretend you were someone else?  Do you talk to yourself sometimes?  It's the same thing.

Answer 4

You cannot determine such a diagnosis by just that behavior. She may be eccentric, she may be immature, she may have an odd sense of humor, she may have a reason that you are totally unaware of. For example, she has proven that she can deceive you guys. So, if she wants to know what you really think about something she may have said or done, it's easy enough for her to pretend to be someone else and get your real thoughts. Or, she may find out who you really are by pretending to be a complete stranger. Many of us reveal things to strangers that we wouldn't reveal to our closest friends. I had a friend many years ago who was good at disguising his voice. I had some innocent enough secrets from him. Because he was a suspicious type, he called my job pretending to be someone I had ordered a package from. I didn't realize it  was him at the time but I couldn't remember ordering a package so I gave my sister's address as my own-just in case. He never brought it up but I eventually realized that he had done that in order to see what I would say. I'm pretty sure that phone call convinced him that I was a sneaky person because I gave an address he couldn't recognize, but I had my reasons. The thing is, you have to look at the big picture with your friend and take her behavior in general into consideration. A person with Mulitple Personality Disorder will not behave like this. I cannot get into the specifics but it is a huge disorder that will leave you in no doubt that you are not dealing with a normally functioning person. If your friend's behavior concerns you, let her know and ask her to stop. If she doesn't, make sure that you are not on the same networking sites as she is and that she doesn't know for sure which ones you're on, what your screen name is, etc. Good luck.

Answer 5

tha's just weird your friend has problems

Answer 6

At this age it may well be just experimentation, trying to establish who she is, (trying different personality's ).. young people do this often, unless her motives are devious  ...and she does not grow out of it ...by 16 she should be over this sort of thing ...but some are later developers ....

Answer 7

I have a friend who once did a trick on another friend of mine by creating multiple accounts. That doesn't have anything to do with  multiple personality disorder. It must have been a joke. I don't think you should bring it up. She must have thought it as a playful joke.

Answer 8

I think you should talk to her about it because a person could kidnap her if she met that person somewhere. One time a girl talked to someone on aim and met him somewhere. Believe it or not, she almost got kidnapped. Talk to your friend about it and tell her the things that can happen.