amandalouise wrote:

There is no medication to combat dissociating per se. but dissociation can be triggered by trauma, depression, anxiety and medication so doctors treat those things to alleviate dissociation problems.

here in the USA naltrexone is primarily used to treat drug and alcohol abuse/dependancy. the way it works is it stops the cravings for alcohol and drugs. should the person choose to use drugs and alcohol it makes them extremely sick so they dont want to drink or use drugs.

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Yes, I am aware of the "on-label" use for naltrexone. It is an opiate antagonist, and is also used to combat alcohol addiction. It has also been studied specifically to combat DP and DR in people without drug addiction.

In many people, the DP/DR is caused by anxiety. In my case, it's often the DP/DR that comes first, causing the anxiety. I have a PRN benzodiazepine that I use once the anxiety sets in, but from the studies that have been done, my doctor and I are hopeful that the DP/DR won't happen in the first place, therefore eliminating the anxiety altogether.

Jewels wrote:

we all dissociate to some degree or another...we dissociate when we daydream, or look out the classroom window and suddenly find ourselves floating away on the clouds, or when we are driving and all of a sudden and find ourselves miles from where we were last cognizant of being...

If this were just a mild sort of brain fog or perception distortion I experienced, I could work through it, and I do try to use grounding techniques when I feel it coming on. I've spent years robotically functioning through the episodes, raising a family and up until recently, holding down a job. The problem is that it has progressed to where, in the bad episodes, my mind completely shuts down and I am unable to speak, move or even hear very clearly. So, I'm hoping the new med will help to alleviate it.

Thanks for everyone's input.