Another personality in my head after nearly dying?

Keep us posted about what's going on with that voice of yours
It sounds interesting :P
But HAVEN'T YOU ASKED THE VOICE WHERE DID IT COME FROM OR WHY IT WASN'T THERE BEFORE?

OMG! This sounds like a serious mental problem- go see a psychiatrist ASAP before this gets out of hand. Seriously, drop what you are doing and go...NOW!

I have an actual diagnosis of DID (dissosiative Identity Disorder AKA multiple personality disorder) and I have regular psych visits as well as weekly therapy, so I can tell you YOU DO NOT HAVE A SEPARATE PERSONALITY because it is impossibly for the mind to split and create an alternate personality past the age of 7...and 7 is pushin it. One voice in your head is probably enough for a schitzophrenia diagnosis. If your family member has schitzophrenia then that means you most likley have the gene for it, and the gene is often activated by traumatic events such as attempted suicide. You need to talk to a dr and get on meds before you go crazy. I'm not putting you down, but for your own sanity please get yourself some help.

Has your split personality ever said "REDRUM" before?

go to a shrink and do a self-diagnostic test. there like 20 questions and it will help the doctor know if your actually mentally ill or just reeling after depression.

She's basically a second person in your head right? And I'm guessing you have tried to engage her more then once, but does she ever respond when you engage her? Further more, what is her name?

well i myself have no personal relation but honestly this dosent seem harmful and it may help you.

When you have a near death experience, especially something like a suicide which is very emotional, you leave yourself open and allow other spirits to enter. Since there usually aren't that many spirits just hanging around, most people don't get em, but there happened to be that one near by, and it got in and now you have another soul, or personality, or whatever.

Be grateful that its a nice one. And I think of this as a gift, as she may possess knowledge you do not, and could help you out quite a bit through life.

And "littlefrog" is correct. I am a psychology major and what you are experiancing is not a true multiple personality. The fact that you are aware of it is indicative of schitzophrenia.

It doesn't sound normal but I think I'd quite enjoy someone else in my head sometimes.

dude, think about it like this. your mind has created a entirely different persona, because one person canot handle everything itself. so they created someone else for the other thoughts that you mught have. so it's not totally normal, but it's reasonable and in some ways, good. so the thing might not be so bad. it might have been what helped you escape suicidal thoughts

See a doctor or something... if the voice is, well, useful, maybe you should live with it. It's kinda unique experience. But you should tell someone about it, someone who had dealt with that sort of stuff.

Don't listen to Candid she's a qwack. It is basically your bodies defence mechanism. You nearly died by suicide, and your mind doesnt want it to happen again so it created a means to stop further suicide. Think about suicide and I bet the alter-person will think badly of it.

wow! Im reading a book with my daughter its called Maximum Ride and i dont mean to spoil it for anybody reading these books but Max has a voice inside her head after a near death experience. I thought it was completly fake but i guess not! Listen to the voice!

I read on wikipedia some time ago about "Alien hand syndrome". It is not exactly the same thing but I feel it has something in common. It involves one hand doing things on its own without the person even knowing it.

Someone with a split personality doesn%%u2019t know there other personality exists..

I am curious...What kind of things does this voice tell you to do?

mayb its a gift

The first thisng I would do is some research on NDE's (near death experiences). I beleive that is what you have experienced. There is a lot of stuff out there on the subject including others experiences. One thing you MUST do is be willing to accept what they say, good or bad. It is what they have experienced, they were there, you wern't.
I wish you the best.

I am. It doesn't work like that. I hear, but it's just like someone else being in the room that doesn't touch you, but talks to you. I know you're probably being sarcastic, but someone might actually want to know.

So who's writing this question, the original or the new person? Maybe you don't even know?

I actually think this is quite plausible and I have several theories on why this happened.

Sometimes when people try to kill themselves another spirit/soul comes into the body instead, someone who is better able to cope with the life circumstances and agrees to carry on in that body instead and finish their life.

In your case I guess you came back or stayed on in addition to this new entity. Alternately they could be an angel/guide who helped saved you and is now guiding/comforting you. They don't sound malevolent.

A similar thing happened to my dad as a child after he nearly drowned. There ended up being 2 souls there but I don't know which one is actually the real him. He was told that he had taken over this body and forced it to keep living, however the original soul was still hanging around.

There are many many stories about this. There was even a show on tv about it.