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Originally Posted by sidestepper
You are very smart! I tried to use coffee way back when I was 19--8 or 9 years before I got my official diagnosis. I slept for more than a day. I thought I was late for work, only to find out I had missed work, school, a whole day! Thank goodness I had never done anything wrong before so I was just given a warning and my supervisor thought it was because I was going to both work and school full-time so I was just exhausted.
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Yea side stepper I've had a lot of experimenting with this, because I was given the narcolepsy diagnosis and consequently I was given every stimulant known, adderall, concerta, nuvigal, provigal, etc, etc, etc because nothing worked and they made me way way more sick. I came to figure out that they were increasing my anxiety, which was increasing me switching and I'll quote the DID source book when I put this down
Cindy wants to kill herself every time she has memories of her childhood abuse. Sometimes the memories appear as pictures in her mind, and at other times she feels intense sadness and fear, but something keeps her from hurting herself. She cannot fully explain why this happens. All Cindy knows is that she goes into a kind of a trance and does not have the energy to hurt herself. Typically she falls asleep, and wakes up a few hours later capable of dealing with life again. What she does not know is that she has an inside part who's job it is to keep her alive.
this is what happens to me, the trance. I also get extremely tired, easily when I switch a lot. I mean that's a lot of work.