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Sep 07, 2011, 08:58 PM
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so i'm going at the end of this week to my second session with my first therapist. I went in tellin them about mood swings and family history of bipolar and think maybe i'm bipolar, disregarding the sanity test has mania and dissociation high all the time. but after chatting with some folks on here in a different thread i guess dissociation can look like or be similar to bipolar. I am going to bring up this in my next visit cause in the end i just want to be helped.
Sorry for the ramble but Any ways, i act like a child sometimes even sound like one at times. My boyfriend i think at times thinks i'm just being cute or asks why you doing that? I don't know and i don't know why. Just happens. I have always said there are different moods of me, but i know i am all me. But i get snippy or bad mood and so on. I just wanted to know what you all thought. Is part of acting like a kid? I don't know much on dissociation and i only read a little. Yeah get spacey a lot and includes driving but i figured That's part of second nature right? But the acting and talking like a kid is what i notice out of place. By the way acting like a kid for me is hard to explain. Talking softly- little whiney i guess. Idk if this too is something to fit in but kids i don't know what to do around. I feel odd and off in my head around them. I always thought this was due to my mother wasn't the nurturing type, ya know? Any material for reading on dissociation would be helpful i have read the article on psych central but for some reason my brain doesn't want to process it like when reading about psychosis or bipolar  idk what's up with that.
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Sep 08, 2011, 03:06 AM
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The changing into child like alters is vastly different than having mood switching, talking like a child and acting like a child. for one thing the changing into child alters happens with only one dissociative disorder - DID. another difference is that usually no one including family, boyfriends, other friends notices any difference because with DID the switching into child alters starts happening when you are a child of 5 and under. most people just think and accept this is just how you are all your life. the mood switching with bipolar unlike DID can come on suddenly because its partly caused from your body not making enough chemicals in your body to keep your moods stable. another difference is medication stablizes mood switching from bipolar and it doesnt stablize the switching into child alters with DID. the sanity tests here on psych central are not meant for diagnosing you. they are just showing how you are at the moment that you took the sanity test. I have dissociative disorders. each time I take the sanity tests here I score differently not because of switching into child alters but because some days Im tired, other days Im not, some days I skipped a meal or two and other days I didnt, Some days I dsidnt get a chance to drink enough fluids some days I did. some days I remembered to take my meds and other days I didnt. the sanity tests here on psych central just reflect how you are feeling and answering the questions that day at that moment and anything can affect how you are answering the questions even the smallest annoying thing like a fly buzzing around the room distracting you make you appear to be a dissociative on those tests. my suggestion print off your results, take them to your therapist and tell your therapist what you suspect. then your therapist and medical doctor and a psychiatrist can retest you in an accurate and controlled way that will tell you what your problems are. books there is a resource thread by Doc John that has books and other resources listed on many subjects including dissociation. 
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Sep 08, 2011, 01:35 PM
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Thanks AmandaLouise.
I feel misunderstood on a lot. I know the sanity tests aren't to dx me, but the test helps with pointing in a direction. Yep things effect it like what Amanda louise mentioned but mania and dissociation are always neck to neck and high unlike other issues which fluctuate. I know things happening & eating & all effects it all. I was already going to take them in my next appt and see the therapist view. I may ask her about their pdoc cuz the pdoc at the other place is over a month wait which is annoying cuz it took a lot for me to just go in now. Also It's not like i went in and was like i'm bipolar give me meds. I just said i think i maybe bipolar due to mood swings and been trying best to track them myself. Added i don't want meds i want help with coping methods. And By me reading other things helps with me understanding some things and i've made a list of where my "issues" fit into which i have 4 categories and a page of idk where it fits. Sadly like about a quarter on here saying i self dx which i was not trying to do, i just am wanting help and was trying to help them with what i know with in myself. And sadly they sort of just agreed. Also it's been recent with my boyfriend has noted things with me, cause, well i've been talking to him more, about differents with in me and disconnecting with certain things and the negative effects it causes me. Just like last night i was shocked when we were being close cause he looked at me and noted something about me which i've always been like but he's been a bit more keen to things here lately. I was shocked cause he knew in a way. That makes no sense i'm sure. But it shocked me. I think i'll ask the office i'm going to if i can set up a pdoc appointment or what not. The therapist was worried about cost for me That's why she suggested another organization but That's over a month wait and i rather do it now and i got my letter from the county i'm accepted for their low cost group. Which is awesome 
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Sep 08, 2011, 06:18 PM
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I just thought of another thing that can help a heck of a lot for some people - journal writing / keeping a daily diary. Sometimes even the smallest thing that you wouldnt realize is something, is just the thing that can help therapists and psychiatrists in diagnosing and knowing where problem areas lie under the surface. most people when they write they write from their heart not from writing about what they think the therapist and psychaitrist needs to know. its truely a fantastic tool for mental health providers in pointing them to the right things that need to be worked on. all thats needed is something to write on and something to write with and then just write from your heart what you have done that day and how you feel about things you did that day. some people find writing in dairys and journals easier if they name their diary or journal and write as if talking to a friend. one book that is a great example of this kind of writing is the dairy of ann frank. its not about mental disorders and graphic abuses. its real easy to read about a teen ager who grew up in hiding with her family, because she was Jewish. her diary is named Kitty (if I remember right, its been a while since I read it myself LOL) if you dont know how to keep diarys and journals its a great book that shows by example how to do it.
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Sep 09, 2011, 11:35 AM
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Well what has already been said is that acting like a child is not necessarily dissociative, but it could be. Sometimes dissociation does look like mood swings because you learned to hide it so well that you don't think of yourself as having multiple personalities. I for one have nown since I was 15 that I had alters, but most people dont'find this out until they are in therapy. So I disagree that mood swings and alters are vastly different - they are, but they many not look that different. As for your score on the sanity test, it only looks at memory problems associated with dissociation, so you could be having some of that. But it doesn't look into stuff like different sense of identity, etc.
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Sep 09, 2011, 06:15 PM
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Thank you both
Update next session (my 3rd) we talk about dissociation. I showed her the tests and differences and neck to neck with *manic and dissociation even on the "normal test". she thinks it's perhap the coping dissociation i guess I made an appt with their pdoc too i'm glad it's sooner rather than later. Oh i have been trying to journal as well very good idea but i wasn't planning on giving it to any one though lol? Thank you both. I guess i'll find out some day on what category i am, i just want to be better ya know? Edited due to Sorry if i have manic box where i mean mania guess a part of me is saying something lol Last edited by beauflow; Sep 09, 2011 at 08:00 PM. |
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Sep 09, 2011, 09:01 PM
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