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I was raised to be nice and always act that way, but I also think of many things that seriously deviate from my usual forced behavior. the personalities these thoughts display almost never show, but when they do, they can range from completely sadistic and psychotic to just plain depressing to things incredibly awe inspiring.
is it normal to have all of these repressed thoughts and personalities?
You seem very unlikely to actually have MULTIPLE PERSONALITY disorder, as in Disassociative Personality Disorder. You more than likely have a conflicting nature, as do many. Lots of people consider things and think on things different from their actions, that contradict deeply. It's the nature of a balanced human mind who knows of more than one answer to a question
I, too, have multiple personalities. But I think the difference is that I only have one hidden personality (the real me) and multiple public personalities that I have carefully designed.
I think having these "socially unacceptable" inner thoughts is fine and normal, but only if you can control yourself, ie. do not act on these thoughts.
I'd guess it depends on how far this goes.
Mankind seems to have a perverse fascination with war, for example, which logically seen is utterly perverse.
Also, if online games or the language used therein are an indication, most people are psychopathic to some degree(who invented "teabagging" and why are games advertising "nutshots" as a feature?).
Also to consider: rape/domination are popular erotic phantasies.
So our nature is quite...different from societal norms.
But the question is: Are those just thoughts or full-on personalities? I'm acting differently based on where i am, and with whom. To an extent that i'd not be recognized as the same person("afternoon tea with my grandparents" vs "on the hunt in an erotic nightclub"). But ultimately, they are ASPECTS of me. Personalities would not be aspects, that is, for example, when in your "normal" behaviour you would vote for one party, be pro-war and for the death penalty, another aspect would still be the same, but maybe voice it differently, while another personality may be AGAINST the death penalty, against the war, and vote for another political party. Know what i mean?(Also note that as mentioned above, some phantasys do not qualify if you KNOW they are just a phantasy while enjoying them. Only if you think differently about the REAL thing would that qualify as a different personality...e.g. if you would seriously enjoy/consider killing or raping a person, just phantasising about it and being satisfied with that is not enough)
If i was to guess, i'd say you just have different aspects, as all of us do. If you DO have actual different personalities, thats a case for the psycho-doc.