[AllHere63]

With so many alters, one would think that I/we could get our act together and not be so depressed. We know all sorts of coping skills but don't seem to be able to use them lately. How can we pull ourselves together?

[Lost_in_the_woods]

Idk....For us usually when everyone is on edge it is because whoever is present in body is under a lot of stress or being triggered and the body reacts in turn everyone upstairs starts freaking out.. for us it is almost never all the same emotions or about the same thing...Everyone is different and at different stages in their co existance...so I guess..if no one can get up and help you gotta treat it like any one who is,depressed would..talk to a T about situation and maybe think about getting a med appt. Hope it gets better soon. Being stuck sux ~Scarlett◇

Originally Posted by AllHere63

With so many alters, one would think that I/we could get our act together and not be so depressed. We know all sorts of coping skills but don't seem to be able to use them lately. How can we pull ourselves together?

I'm sorry to hear that you are dealing with such a mood.

Have you been tested for a mood disorder? I mean genetically the body can be suffering from its form of chemical imbalances that is readily treated with medication.

Our body is bipolar, and it wasn't because of the individual moods of the other parts. It was a rhythmic cycle that prcceeded in a timely fashion regardless of who was present. The appropriate meds ceased the cycling.

With the bipolar in remission and stabile, the moods of the parts are felt which are distinguishable from the bipolar mood swings.

If that isn't it, have you talked to a T?

When we feel down and out as a system (kinda rare), we'd get close to basics in nature where there are trees and water, letting the stress go and become one with the planet.

I hope that you get to feeling better.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by AllHere63

With so many alters, one would think that I/we could get our act together and not be so depressed. We know all sorts of coping skills but don't seem to be able to use them lately. How can we pull ourselves together?

you use the term ....lately.... and you use the phrasing that you know coping tools but dont use them.... you know that they work you just have chosen for some reason not to use them....

how do you pull yourselves back together? you get back on track with using those coping skills you are not using right now. they have worked in the past they will work now.

how do you pull yourselves back together? you contact your treatment providers and work with them about why you are having problems following through with using your coping skills you have been taught...

these are the two most important things when ever I start having any of my dissociation problems. I look at my present life and figure out why Im not using the coping tools I have been taught...sometimes its because Im just being lazy, other times its because my life has gotten so busy I havent taken that time to use the grounding, breathing, relaxing, and other tools that I use to cope with hard things in my life.

I also check in with my treatment providers. online is great but people online do not know my whole story, they just know the bit that I choose to post about, they cant possibly read my mind and know my whole list of problems, medications and what treatment plans for each that I am on. But my own treatment providers can listen to me face to face and know right away what can be done next...example recently I felt bogged down and dissociating constantly, nothing I was doing was working so I contacted my treatment plans and they knew right away that my problem though it seemed like a dissociative problem was in fact a medication problem. my medication was changed and Im starting to feel better again.

[Fuzzybear]

idk ....

[finding_my_way]

i have been struggling well. not sure what is depression and what is dissociation..what is a mix..i don't really get depressed, but the time of year is really affecting me..and it's been like a revolving door more lately. it's exhausting and confusing...and scary...i just want 'my' normal back.

[AllHere63]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my post. I have a therapist who I see weekly. I'm on two antidepressants prescribed by my PCP; one for depression and one for sleep. No psychiatrists for me, thank you!

Something shifted inside emotionally and spiritually last Friday afternoon, so I'm a bit better. Some alters are no longer feeling unsafe and impulsive, which is good. My ability to sleep in improving. I see my therapist tomorrow so I'll know more about how everyone inside feels after that.