How many of you people out there feel you have this alter ego who is a completely different person inside of you.
Nobody knows this person exists and He or She is lonley.
See, I am a petite woman, with a good amount of self control. But my alter ego is this Big brawlin', beer drinkin' maniac who, if given the chance,could stir things up and break things down. And I think if he was set free I would be gone.
I mean I am not crazy or anything but I don't think I could just stuff myself back into this neat little package that I am.
Maybe I'm just aching to get out and do something different, exciting, dangerous.
Does anyone have any idea what I am talking about? or am I really just crazy.

I'm a shy, petite man of 31, and for as long as I can remember, I have had violent inner urges, which I always totally repressed, mainly due to fear of the consequences (I might get beaten up, people would no longer respect me (as the quiet, gentle personality that I appeared to be), it would upset my lofty/superior self-image,..).
And it's only been recently that I've accepted that I'm neither nice/etc nor a nutter/etc, but both - that is, I'm a "jekyl and hyde", regularly "morphing" from one to the other.
As far my "Dr Jekyl" (wild/obsessive/etc) side is concerned, I believe that it surfaces whenever I am "out of balance", and it brings up any seriously-neglected things in my life, as well as a ****load of anger/frustration (due to normal life stuff).
For years (up to my early 20s) I worried about what might be destroyed if I "let loose", even once. I worried that many of my safe & good ways/habits/traits would be gone forever. But having "expressed" quite a lot of my inner urges during my 20s, I can tell you that I have lost barely anything of my good stuff, which to me is a "pleasant surprise". A number of times I was absolutely convinced that I'd turned into a skinhead, criminal, "baddie", etc, but that was not the case at all (at worst, these were simply temporary personas, which I were "test-driving", to see whether I felt comfortable in them, which I didn't really).
Of course everyone is different.
Summing up, I personally think you could have a few issues that need addressing. Specifically how to do this, is the tricky question. But I suppose you could try to become more aware of the specifics of these thoughts and feelings/urges, and try to "feed" them a little of what they want, whenever they occur, and hopefully these strong thoughts/feelings/urges will gradually start to dimish (having been "addressed"). There's many quite acceptable substitutions (for the real thing) that can be used. Such as imagination, shouting, writing.
I hope this helps you a bit.

Of course if you set him free "you" would be gone. People change all the time, and you will change whether you "let him out" or not. If you do let this inner maniac out for a romp, you'll probably end up with some really valuable (and sounds like wild-fun) experiences and a sense of recognition that the lack of is making him (that part of you) feel lonely right now. It's really up to you to see if you've got the guts and trust to let go of your current self-image enough to play this out and grow from it. Unless you're obsessed with what other people think, you've got nothing to lose, and a waaay more fulfilling life to gain, sounds like to me. And if you can integrate these two alter-egos, more power to you.

it istrue that some people get the feeling that they have an alter ego .many justift this with facts aswell.basically what they are feeling is the lack of hold theyhave on them selves .the wild side of them is trying to express it self and that is all that is happening .they are in state of confusion as they do not want to acklwedg that part of themselves.I WOULD SUGGEST SELF HYPNOSIS AND THE ANALYSIS OF ONES CHILD LIFE TO FIND ASOLUTION.THE ALTER EGO CAN BE USED CONSTRUCTIVELY AS WELL

it istrue that some people get the feeling that they have an alter ego .many justift this with facts aswell.basically what they are feeling is the lack of hold theyhave on them selves .the wild side of them is trying to express it self and that is all that is happening .they are in state of confusion as they do not want to acklwedg that part of themselves.I WOULD SUGGEST SELF HYPNOSIS AND THE ANALYSIS OF ONES CHILD LIFE TO FIND ASOLUTION.THE ALTER EGO CAN BE USED CONSTRUCTIVELY AS WELL

I frequently feel as if I have a much repressed alter ego. I also think it is healthly to let the alter ego out every once in a while just to know what that feels like. No one is so one dimensional as to not have deep seated unmet needs and desires just waiting for an outlet.

I know exactly what you mean. I don't consider it an alter ego though. It's there, probably always has been there, and it's simply your choice to let it shine or shut it down, depending on the kind of damage you can do with it.

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I can feel for ya,
although I would consider myself the opposite. instead of being shy and petite, with the need to be out there and crazy; i find myself out there and crazy, with the need to bee a bit more shy sometimes!
logically the best plce to reside is somewhere in the middle, I don't know some kind of "crazy/ shy", a yin and yang sort of thing-a-ma-bobber!