now you just keep doing what ever you and your treatment providers say you need to do for what ever your problem areas are, just like before you got the diagnosis...

getting a diagnosis doesnt change anything other than puts a name on whats already been happening....

let me show you what I mean...

before getting the diagnosis I kept switching into rainy during heavy storms. after diagnosis I still switched into rainy during heavy storms. so why the diagnosis.. just put a name on what has always been happening with me since very early childhood.

what did change?

on my side of this....my own perception.... after a switch and if I noticed something (which I rarely did because my DID had memory problems and to me this was how I normally was since very early childhood) rather than being confused as to why that blanket was on the floor i could logically think I switched into rainy at some point yesterday ok nothing different there been there done that all my life, pick up the blanket and put it where it belongs and on with my life. see it just puts a name on whats already been happening.

on my treatment providers side of this....
my medical doctor was much more careful about prescribing any kind of medications for any of my problems to ensure no overdosing would happen... example if I needed an antibiotic he would make sure to write out the directions for me to post on my fridge and taught me how to do a medication log for posting on the fridge so that if any others inside thought about the medication all they needed to do was check the log to see if anyone had taken the antibiotic yet.

my physical therapist would explain what we were doing in more details then really needed just in case others were listening and needed help understanding what was going on and why she needed to touch my arms, legs and such...

my psychiatrist removed me from many medications as we now knew the problems were dissociative not psychotic.

my therapist changed my mental health treatment plan to include things like my learning to do and my doing....grounding, relaxation, breathing, meditations (all of which enables a dissociative person to self nurture/ self sooth and not dissociate, when encountering triggers that was causing my dissociative reactions)

As I became better at handling my own problems with out dissociating, the alters reintegrated/became one whole person with me again.