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Originally Posted by cavaliers
Had a feeling that one of the alters might be dxed if she were a normal. Ask T today...When a person does x, y, z, we call it mania, he said. Not bipolar or several other things I cannot remember now. 💊 for manic one has effects on others in the system. We've been working to get everyone into a comfortable functioning system & drugs could mess with that. Before I head to the internet (site suggestions most welcome!) How do others deal with this? Do you take a particular drug for a particular alter? Gee, a million questions!!! Any info, please.
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like stated in the other thread on this same kind of issue, my alters were not diagnosed separately from me. it was all one physical body....
another issue with me was that my having alters was dissociative related. there was no promise that say at 7am I was going to encounter something triggering so that the same alter every day at 7am would be in control to take the medications.... being funny one day my therapist said to me...
can you see it now 7 am every day on the dot you go outside into a rain storm so that Rainy will be able to take "her" medication, or at 7am every morning get into a fight with your wife so that red will take control and take "her" medication, or every morning at 7am get intimate so that thelma would be in control to take "her" medications...
dissociation just doesnt work that way in me. I had no control over when and what triggers I was going to encounter when, resulting in my having my dissociation symptoms which would result in my alters taking control in any sensible order for any kinds of treatments for"their" problems.
DID is something that happened to me not something I chose and not something I had control over. it affected every aspect of my life,
because of DID's unpredictability and that this is a situation where everyone is sharing one body and medications work on the physical levels by adjusting body chemicals like dopamine, seratonin and so on....my treatment providers treated ...me, amandalouse, the one born to this body, the one whose name is on the legal document called a birth certificate.
I was the one that had the mania meds, depression meds, anti psychotics and so on. this also helped the alters because its all one physical body. and because what I had filtered down to the alters. (since my system was dissociative related the one thing we did know about my alters is they must be able to be aware on some mental or physical levels that make it possible for them to take control when I have my dissociative symptoms. other wise they would not have been taking control/ out and about functioning just like any other human being does, in which case I would not have been diagnosed DID (diagnostic criteria of the times when I went through diagnostics)
anyway since your treatment provider is saying your alters are diagnosed differently than you are maybe you need to talk with your treatment provider on treatment options that they want you on. unfortunately we cant advise you on what to do for you, all we can do is tell you how things are done for ourselves.