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Originally Posted by Wysteria
I've been taking an anti-depressant and anti-anxiety and mood stabilizer but I depersonalize for long periods of time and am not DID but also have severe depression...
I've also recently started Latuda which is now being used "off-label" for some dissociative disorders to help reduce the depersonalization or derealization times...I'm having some problems, but it does seem to help with daymares and reduce some of the nightmares for me personally. From what I understand, it is about the only thing out there, and it is very new and is only now really being tried in general population. My pdoc is watching me closely on it...I think I'm his first patient taking it for this application. I've asked on the medication forum post section, but so far noone else has responded that they are taking it for dissociative conditions..
I believe strongly in therapy and trauma based emotion reduction therapies to help reduce some of the underlying causes of the disorders and their symptoms..
Don't know if this helps or not?? Good luck on finding the course of action and therapy for your personal needs and healing. 
Wysteria Blue |
a couple months ago on another site I read about others on this medication. I was curious and hoped it may help some of my own clients.
what I found out was that Latuda is for treating hallucinations and delusions that come with some disorders such as schizophrenia, schizo affective disorder, schizo typical disorder, and bipolar disorder. it is an anti psychotic.
it is being used more and more in the hospital where I work as the new drug of choice for ruling in or out those mental disorder that contain psychotic features of hallucinations and delusions thereby ruling in or out whether someone has dissociative disorders.
to date here in NY there is no known medication on the market that will lessen dissociative symtoms. this is in part because a certain amount of dissociation is actually a normal thing to have and do.
to date any medications tried on our dissociative clients at the hospital the results have been either that persons dissociative problems escalated or through a plecebo affect of the person being told this will help then their own belief in the medication in turn helped them to remain in control / remain grounded. kind of like when a child falls down and physically they are fine but mentally they are upset and you say kiss it and make it better, or give them a bandage on the non wounded area and then the child goes off to play because their belief in band aids gave them the confidence they needed to go back to playing.
you can do your own 'study or survey" for your area on this medication too. its real easy to do. just call mental health agencies and tell them you heard about the drug and wanted to know if that agency had any statistics or info about it.