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Originally Posted by insideout
Are there any medications that can help stop swithching into different alters?
I am pretty sure I do this and that it is more than just Bipolar, because I have all the symptoms.
I am really embarrassed to tell a psychiatrist about it because once I start feeling vulnerable, I just clam up... and I feel like a little girl.
I haven't been able to really tell anyone, but my last boyfriend knew, and he didnt like my alter at all. He called her a psycho ***** and said she wasn't allowed in the house. That really offended me...
And she left for a while.
And he and I broke up, for more reasons than him offending me. He was doing things behind my back.
My best friend of 20 years says nobody could ever get bored of me because I am always a different person. He says it as a compliment, but admitted it was too much instability for him, and he remarried. (he's my baby daddy)
I asked someone else about it, and he was like "duh!" and said he had known for a while and that we had had this conversation before.
Anyway... I feel I am betraying myself by even talking about this, but I need to know how to start this topic with a pdoc without him laughing at me, and I need to know if it's even treatable.
Why bother humiliating myself if there is no treatment.
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no there is no medication to prevent someone from dissociating (your words switching into alters)
dissociation is a normal automatic response/action just like a person breathing is a normal thing for humans to do...
dissociation is one of those things that go from normal and then on into the various dissociation symptoms and then on into the dissociative disorders depending upon what your combination of dissociation symptoms are and why you are dissociating...
example a normal form of dissociating is spacing out/daydreaming when you are bored, entertaining yourself or are feeling any number of strong feelings..
the cure for when you are dissociating too much is grounding yourself back in reality.
ie if your daydreaming to the point where its interfering with your life the fix is training yourself to not daydream, every time you daydream when you dont want to you refocus out of the daydream and back on to what you need to do.
one thing the mental health community in the united states knows is that dissociating into alters is a reaction to something that is causing them to feel panic/anxiety/depression, fear and other emotions,
example every time I was out in a public event like a party I would dissociate into an alter. on closer look about this problem my therapist and I discovered I would become anxious when I had to participate in large gatherings.
my doctor prescribed anti depressants which work for anxiety. with my anxiety under control I no longer switched into that party loving alter.
the medication wasnt for preventing me from switching. it was for lowing my anxiety. I still switched into alters even after being medicated.
medications treat physical symptoms like anxiety, depression, adjusting brain chemicals so a person wont have hallucinations, delusions....
but there is no medication to treat dissociation /switching into an alter directly because its the normal way that the brain works. a persons brain is supposed to allow a person to daydream, use their imagination, thing, process sensory input...store memories...thats basically what an alter is all about ..parts of a persons personality that stores, acts on what ever the host could not handle on their own, functioning on their own based on what their job, purpose and reason for being created is.
some people learn how to notice when they are triggered/ what their dissociation symptoms are/ what causes them to dissociate and with that information about their self can use self care, self nurturing, and medication for their anxiety and other emotions, learn how to stay grounded instead of dissociating.
talk with your treatment providers, they can help set up a plan for you that will enable you to discover what is causing your dissociation symptoms, teach you how to remain grounded, and face your problems head on instead of dissociating.