I injest 200/mg of Lamictal 2x’s/day (400mg/day) and I feel totally disconnected from my body. I’m no stranger to Dissociative Disorders (dp/dr+DID)...but am concerned about how obnoxious it is now.

It’s like there is a void between me and my body...I don’t feel my body as a whole, but as parts if I focus on that part specifically...but it doesn’t feel real.

We alters co-host, but do any singletons feel prominently detached from their own body?

Do you find yourself depersonalizing as a side effect or worst?

I just don’t know if it’s me or the meds. :/

-Concerned

[MJLouise]

I had been on 150 mg of lamictal from 2006-2010 and didn’t feel like that big it’s different for everyone. Def talk to your dr. I felt a lot of anxiety on it and eventually my sight became blurry.

[Blueberrybook]

I have felt like this a lot, though not DID or another identity. It's me, and I'm somewhere either in my head or watching my life like a movie, often while running, driving, but other times too. Recently running, it felt like my body was going, and I didn't feel any part of it unless I concentrated and forced myself to focus, and there were times I only really felt some parts of my body going and not others. Yesterday, I lost a mile. I have a running app on my phone. Every 5 minutes, it announces the time and mileage. Depending on the day and time, I run or jog anywhere from just over a 10-11 minute mile. That means I missed 2, probably 3 times of the app even announcing time and mileage, and when it announced a certain amount of miles, I thought, no way is that right. I had zero memory of the whole last mile. But I looked on my FitBit, and it was right. I don't know what happened; I just lost the time while in my head or not even there really, it's just a blank. It was scary. I have an appt. with the pdoc tomorrow & am going to bring that up. But that is the first time the completely blanking out has happened to me.

However, I have been dissociating a long time, since I was child, so I'm no stranger to it. I may dissociate more now, but I think it is more situational than a result of the Lamictal, maybe both. And I've been on Lamictal a long time, I'd say 6-7 years. It's only lately it's gotten worse, but so has my stress level.

Originally Posted by Blueberrybook

I have felt like this a lot, though not DID or another identity. It's me, and I'm somewhere either in my head or watching my life like a movie, often while running, driving, but other times too. Recently running, it felt like my body was going, and I didn't feel any part of it unless I concentrated and forced myself to focus, and there were times I only really felt some parts of my body going and not others. Yesterday, I lost a mile. I have a running app on my phone. Every 5 minutes, it announces the time and mileage. Depending on the day and time, I run or jog anywhere from just over a 10-11 minute mile. That means I missed 2, probably 3 times of the app even announcing time and mileage, and when it announced a certain amount of miles, I thought, no way is that right. I had zero memory of the whole last mile. But I looked on my FitBit, and it was right. I don't know what happened; I just lost the time while in my head or not even there really, it's just a blank. It was scary. I have an appt. with the pdoc tomorrow & am going to bring that up. But that is the first time the completely blanking out has happened to me.

However, I have been dissociating a long time, since I was child, so I'm no stranger to it. I may dissociate more now, but I think it is more situational than a result of the Lamictal, maybe both. And I've been on Lamictal a long time, I'd say 6-7 years. It's only lately it's gotten worse, but so has my stress level.

Thanks, please let me know how that goes and p.m. me please or post here.

My anxiety and stress is through the roof...the 20 yr old acts like a 16 and won’t move out, 70 year old mother moved in because an alter wanted her close (not that bad, though).....

Took 2 loans for 2 cars....

My DID is out of control...

I feel like an empty box with appendages! Lol

Originally Posted by MJLouise

I had been on 150 mg of lamictal from 2006-2010 and didn’t feel like that big it’s different for everyone. Def talk to your dr. I felt a lot of anxiety on it and eventually my sight became blurry.

With the bump in prozac to 4o mg which helped a lot, up went the stabilizer.

It’s just more noticeable now being that I’ve tuned in finally after all these years.

[~Christina]

I’m sorry your struggling

Seems your numerous alters keep your life a ongoing messy situation.

I wish I had some grand advice but I don’t