Thank you so much for affirming and validating that, Nammu!

I was told by about three different psychiatrists and quite a few psychologists that sometimes meds have an adverse reaction with people who dissociate. Almost 20 years ago, a psychiatrist weaned me off of meds because they were making my dissociation worse. She said I did much better without the meds, after having monitored me for over a year without them. She observed me in just talk therapy with a social worker instead, and after checking in for that long, she decided I didn't need psychiatry unless I needed short-term medications for anxiety. I eventually learned how to just use holistic meds for things like sleep aids (melatonin, which the VA prescribed) and a light box (which the VA also prescribed to help me wake up in the morning and find energy when my vitamin D levels are so down, and remain low).

Coping skills help me the most.