Shelly: Oh wow hon, so sorry...

Tranquilizers? For me, anxiety and stress on its own is enough to trigger dissociation. I used to take a mild one like Buspirone, but it made me too mellow so I quit it (it took away from hypomania).

Antidepressants for those that are bipolar can trigger mania, so a stabilizer is required to be taken. I was prescribed AD for depression of which led to a few years in LaLa land. We've now added a stabilizer (Lamictal). Bipolar is triggered later in life by trauma, anxiety or stress for those bipolar prone to begin and is lifelong from them on. At least that's what happened to us. When we got the bipolar under control, a lot of my dissociative issues subsided.

I've also found that nothing can cause greater anxiety then thinking that their is something mentally wrong with ones-self. I know I felt defective, different, cursed, wronged....that it's all unfair...but I've come to accept and embrace it to live with it peacefully...now we can begin to treat it.

Steven: I went and had a T session which I've realized that it needs to be done on a Friday afternoon. I tried to go to work after that and almost walked out onto the freeway in a daze!

Well, welcome to PC and hope you feel better, gotta get ready for work. Later.