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Originally Posted by sheltiemom2007
I have bipolar 1 disorder with psychosis and have, in the past, been rapid cycling. Rapid cycling meant 4-5 episodes a year. It was brutal. I also had DID but am integrated now for about 5 years. There is a huge difference between a bipolar episode and a DID "switch". One is organic. Medication is the only way to stop a manic psychotic episode. Talk therapy won't do it. Trauma work won't do it. Soothing techniques won't accomplish it. It's only your psychiatrist's magic prescription pad and sometimes, unfortunately, a hospital admission that resolves the episode. Mood swings caused by trauma or DID can be soothed. Your trauma therapist can help you figure out what techniques work for you. I have an amazing psychiatrist, but soothing trauma reactions isn't always his strength, although he's learning. Dealing with my brutal mania is. My psychologist is the trauma expert.
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sheltiemom2007 - Thank you so very much for sharing this. In my brief time here on PC, starting with a new psych team and a T who specializes in DID, talking to my previous trauma therapist from years ago, looking at my patterns and history, I am starting to understand that these mood splinters are parts...in a battle of sorts...it explains almost EVERYTHING in a very odd, but amazing, exciting and hopeful kind of way. I was surprised last year when I asked my prescription-pad psych nurse what my dx was and she said Bipolar 2. It didn't make sense when I started reading about it. I have a happy part desperately trying to get out and to accept all of the other parts that got her to this point. (Hence...to fear less....and instead embrace the branches that are all part of the same tree.)
Thank you...I will continue to share and really appreciate your experience.
FearLess47