Yes I tend to have medication ...side effects.... like this too. please dont get offended that I call it side effects rather than dissociation. here where I am dissociation due to medication rules out having a dissociative problem, therefore my location now calls these problems ...side effects.... rather than calling it dissociation.

heres something I noticed in both Alwayschanging and Elevated souls posts... to me it looks like the problems started happening .....after ..... the decrease in medications...

to me that would tell me that the meds were actually working right in some way...otherwise the problems would not be increasing as the decreasing of medications happens.

example... if my anxiety and dissociation symptoms increase..... after lowering a dosage..... that tells me that the higher dosage was taking care of the anxiety and mania.

if my symptoms are happening ......before...... the lowering of the dosage and the problems ...........get better not worse.......after lowering the dosage. that tells my treatment providers the higher dosage was wrong and that the medications may not be the right ones for me.

both of your posts state the side effects got worse .... after.... decreasing or stopping the meds. so logically the meds were helping in some way while you were on your full dosages....

my suggestion would be what my treatment providers call a medication adjustment change. this is where we stay in the same medication grouping because the meds were helping "something" and switching to another meds in that same category of medications to see if the next medication will not only take care of the anxiety and mania but also the depression and other symptoms without the dissociative like side effects