[abbidy]

Hello! I've been diagnosed with DID and Schizoaffective disorder for 5 years now, I'm 27. I can't work anymore and most all my friends have found it to difficult to keep up a relationship with me. I am married, but my husband and I struggle with my issues. I am so alone, and I don't feel like I live in reality anymore. I have Chron's disease on top of this, and I'm very, very sick right now with it. I feel like I could really use some advice on how to help myself out right now.

[hillbunnyb]

Hi abbidy, welcome to PC. Are you in therapy? Sounds like a full plate to deal with alone. Having multiple diagnosis' makes coping a challenge. No easy answers to big problems.
Figuring out what it takes to stabilize youself is a process.

What have you discovered that works for you in the 5 years since your dxs? Is your partner willing to go to a councelor with you? Have you checked out on line crohn's support groups? Are you eating? Sleeping? On disability?

[Zorah]

Hi abbidy

Welcome to PC, you will get to know us all.

You could post to the Health Support forum about the Crohn's disiease, someone else will have it too, probably, this is a large community. Our son has coeliac disorder, which is similar.

hillbunnyb is right, multiple dxs are very hard to deal with

You are young though, plenty of time for you & your husband to come to terms with your issues. It would be good if he'd go to therapy with you. Does he understand that you can't just "get over it" ?

Ask all the questions you like, no-one on the DD forum will think they're weird.

You can PM any other member, if you have questions you don't want to post publicly.

Welcome again ((abbidy)) lots of us don't have irl friends.

[bipolar_bear]

Welcome abbidy. I am sorry you are feeling so bad right now. Having Chron's on top of everything else must really be hard. Take care and know you have found some friends here.

Wow thats cool having two disorders at the complete opposite ends of things. Not that its cool that you have them just that somehow you got diagnosed with both of them when they have different symptoms and criteria and so on. that rarely happens these days.

Welcome aboard and I have DID too.

you can find my experiences with having DID and my therapy eperiences for this and my 5 years of reasearch about this disorder in my blog. to get to the blogs

click on the word - blogs at the top of the page
If you see a gray page you are in the members blog area and just click on my recent entry under my blog title - Me, Myself and I. that will bring you to my blog.
Click on the letterhead and the main page will come up so that along the right side you will see the word - blog index.

inside there is links to each of my entries.

If after you click blogs at the top of the page you see a yellow page you are in doc Johns blog.

To gey to the members blogs click on the words - get your own - located on the left side of the blog.

Then follow the same directions above.

and again welcome

[abbidy]

Thank you all so much for relpying. You don't know, well you probably do, know how much it means to me that you have responded to me. I take your advice really seriously. My husband and I go to therapy together. However my other alters get in the way very often and it is a struggle. I am on disability, I hate it, I want to work, I want to feel normal so to speak. I want to belong to the world, but I don't. I sleep sleep in my closet sometimes, because I get scared at night. I think someone is watching me sleep and so I close the closet doom on me, and listen to the voices calling to me to come out. I feel so trapped, and I just really need connection with other people like me. Sometimes I feel like child caught in this adult body, and a burden to everyone. Can anyone relate to this?

[radio_flyer]

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Although I "am not" DID or dissociative... I somehow can relate to that comment..For me I am thinking it may have to do with unresolved childhood issues...or something that was needed that I didn't get that was necessary to feel whole or validated as a child.. it is something that I just can't put my finger on to even understand... and I seem to somehow at times get stuck there...I must say it is a most unusual feeling.... but then it passes and life is good...

anyway... welcome to psych central... You will find a lot of folks that are great at being supportive.....

I too hear voices but they are INSIDE my head not outside. I can also make them stop by looking around and paying attention to what all my senses - hearing, sight, tastes, smells, touch. by matching what I see hear and so on I can locate why that voice memory is replaying in my head. then I do something with that trigger like go into a different room, eat if Im hungry, and so on. once the trigger is taken care of the voice memory stops.

Since you percieve the voice as coming from outside your head that probably the Schizo (sorry I have trouble with spelling) and that is a chemical imballance of the brain thing so talking with your therapist and medication may help lessen or stop those voice hallucinations for you.

Feel like a child in adult body sometimes. part of that I know is because everyone normally has experiences where they feel like a child again for example a person boss calls them into the office and they feel like a kid going to the principals office.

Another part of my feeling that way is because my memories have been separated and stored at the unconscious level and when I get triggered (upset or uncomfortable) those memories or the past that match the present day situation in some way replay and I act them out unconsciously. I may be a 40 pls aged person but at any point I can be suddenly acting out the memories of when I was 5 unconsciously.

What helps me for this is again paying attention to my triggers and doing something about the trigger and then the feeling stops.

Hang in there.

[Jennifer1084]

Welcome to PC. I too often feel like I am a burden to everyone. But don't worry you're not a burden to anyone on here, I'm sure. I too thought that when I first started posting and stuff. Well I too have been diagnosed with DID and other things too. I have been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder, depression and PTSD. So I am starting to get a view on what it's like to be diagnosed with multple things. I haven't been diagnosed with DID very long though, only 8 months. So that isn't too long. I too need friends and feel like I can't have any close friendships with anyone. Well sorry if I said to much about myself and whatever. Again welcome.

Welcome abbidy!

[nothemama8]

Welcome, you have entered a very helpful support site and we are here to help
Angie

[LILITH]

Welcome... to PC... I have DID, PTSD, Panic now they tell me I might be Bipolar as well. This is a good community to belong to...... I enjoy my time here.. I have made some friends and you will too... let me be on of you newest friends my name is Altheia/Lilith