Psychiatrist at my T's practice periodically checks all meds clients r on. I'm DID. Not on any psych meds now. He suggested to T that an antidepressive my help for awhile. My T asked me if I'd ever been on them (yes), what happened (hosptalized). As we talked we realized that every time I went on them, the depressive turned to suicidal thoughts leading to hospitalization. Coincidence? He asked if I remembered what we had been working on. Nope. As I thought during the following week, we think we were dealing w the teenagers. He nodded his head when I told him. Seems in teenagers some depressive meds r contra indicated for that reason. My T is not antimeds but he would rather work thru it then medicate. Wonder if anyone else has had med problems -worked, didn't work-w particular alters.

I've always thought (The body) is bipolar, now I don't know, but I don't want to go off meds to find out. AD makes me hypo crazy and stabilizers settle me, but I need a little bit to not be depressed. The AP is take as needed when the hallucinations get bad. I quit the anti anxiety meds because it numbs me.

At ths point, I don't know if my mood swings are because of DID, or genetics, but I suspect genetics.

We take a coupoe of meds. They work well on me, and dont work at all for the teenage alters. The sleeping medication does not work at all on the children.

at one point we were on so many different meds because turns out a different part went to the appointments but we have been med free for over 10 years now and dont plan to ever go back on any at any time.

Thanks....it isn't just us. Hooray. Been off meds for 14 years And also don't want to go back either. But have had some big life changes recently. A former T kept telling us it's all right to use a crutch if if you break a leg.

[Ocean5]

Been on medicine 1st time this past year. I will say every time I try SSRI helps at first - I am hopeful. Then downhill after.... Currently getting off. Doc says I'm too sensitive to medicine.

[TheFuZZieONE]

I'm on Lexapro 20mg for PTSD. It is supposed to be very effective for anxiety and depression. I recently increased my dose to 20mg and I do feel WAY more calm, which in turn has the DID symptoms not so pronounced. I haven't had any crazy angry outbursts, and no days long depression where I stay in bed and cry. I was always anti psych meds, but the Lexapro really has helped me. The only side effect was a bad headache the first day.

I've also been prescribed Abilify, which I did NOT like. It caused major body twitches at night while I was trying to sleep. The entire next day I felt like a zombie and could barely function. I felt brain dead and numb of all feelings and I didn't even feel real. Abilify is an antipsychotic medication, and works for some people. I don't think it worked on me cause I don't believe I'm psychotic. Don't care what my therapist says! Lol.

The Lexapro on the other hand is an antidepressant, which works well on me. I probably do have a serotonin imbalance that the antidepressant helps, but I'm not psychotic (sticks tongue out at psychiatrist).

[finding_my_way]

i never did well with meds. when i was 14, they put me on SSRIs which either had zero effect or gave me adverse reactions. i then was tried on zyprexa/olanzapine when it was so new they didn't know weight gain was a side effect. as a result of that, i gained a lot of weight in a short time and then developed an eating disorder trying to lose the weight. it was one of the worst things to happen to me which made me fear other meds afterwards. i tried another few things after it but only managed to feel anything positive from lorazepam/ativan and seroquel as needed. i used to be able to take a little higher dose but now can just take very miniscule amounts and still feel the effect of the meds. they don't always help like i need, like during a crisis, but i have a hard time taking a med daily so just use them as needed.

Right now, I'm wondering if I even need to be medicated. I was DX'd bipolar after the AD fiasco. Now with the aspect of multiples and different moods, I don't know. I'm soooo tempted to get off meds to see what happens.

[lucidity11]

I take an antidepresent and a low dose of an antianxiety med. The antidepresent helped with my compulsive thinking. It slowed down my racing thoughts. At that time i believed i was losing my mind. It was a great help. It's been five years and i am still taking the same dosage. The antianxiety med helps me if i start to think i am losing control of my self. That is a huge fear that perpetuates it's self creating panic which has in the past blown into a full on panic attack. Meds have helped as long as it is not too much