I’ve been told a few times that this is unhealthy and I should stop, but it’s my creative outlet and it’s how I develop my characters in my writing. I’ll keep saying to myself, “This is the person I want to be like someday.” Isn’t this a great representation of INFJs having high expectations for ourselves? This is basically how I cope with self-hatred. It helped me finally realize that the reason I create these alter egos is because it’s an escape my own life and gives me a break from my insecurities, so I’ll live vicariously through an unrealistically better version of myself. However, if I make a mistake, I would beat myself up over it and even say to myself, “He would never do/say that.” I feel really stupid comparing myself to him. In a difficult situation, I’d ask myself how he would handle it. I kind of see this alter ego as a role model to look up to. I may even consider him to be an INFJ since he’s pretty much based off of me. His life is completely different from mine, but his personality is almost identical, except that he is stronger, braver, wiser, and more intelligent than I could ever hope to be. He’s overall just a very interesting and fascinating person. He had a very traumatic upbringing he basically grew up in a warzone. Just to give a very brief description of him he is male, he lives in South America and is a humanitarian activist. I used to be able to have multiple alter egos at a time, right now I only have one. They are almost always male for some reason I only use females as background characters in the main characters’ lives. (Basically, I made my own cartoons shows in my head.) As I got older, they evolved into real people in realistic situations. They started out as being weird, cartoony-looking characters, some of them were even talking animals and I’d put them in strange, goofy, situations. I didn't actually believe that I was these other beings I knew that it was something I did just to entertain my mind at first. I believe I've had alter egos since I was a toddler they weren't imaginary friends because I'd actually pretend to be these people/things. However, if that IS the case with you, you're still welcome to talk about it here. Just so we're clear, this doesn't really apply to mental issues like Dissociative Identity Disorder or Schizophrenia.