[flockpride]

quick question
when you are about to switch do you ever feel pressure in your head?
I was aware of this physical sensation long before diagnosis. I thought it was dehydration or a virus or low blood sugar, but then I noticed it always coinciding with parts.

??

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by flockpride

quick question
when you are about to switch do you ever feel pressure in your head?
I was aware of this physical sensation long before diagnosis. I thought it was dehydration or a virus or low blood sugar, but then I noticed it always coinciding with parts.

??

here in the USA head pressure is a physical health problem that comes with things like migraines, headaches, and other physical health problems... dissociation here in the USA is things like feeling numb, spaced out and disconnected....

my own head pressure turned out to be migraines and ms

here is a good link on head pressure....

What Are the Causes of Head Pressure? | LIVESTRONG.COM

my suggestion would be to contact your medical doctor. maybe there is a heqadache/ migraine medication that can help or an assessment for other problems it can be

[Luce]

YES! I totally did / do. Not all the time. But some of the time. And I absolutely link it to dissociation and not a physical symptom. That can happen with dissociation in my part of the world. Sorry if you are in a part of the world where it can't. :\

[bornunderabadsign]

Originally Posted by flockpride

quick question
when you are about to switch do you ever feel pressure in your head?
I was aware of this physical sensation long before diagnosis. I thought it was dehydration or a virus or low blood sugar, but then I noticed it always coinciding with parts.

??

Almost every time. I have even noticed that there is a correlation between where I feel pressure and which alter is about to come out.

[TrailRunner14]

If a vacuum feeling is like pressure, I also experience this. I've never thought of it as a pressure but I guess a vacuum feeling could be a pressure.

It's just before me not feeling all there.

[flockpride]

Originally Posted by Luce

YES! I totally did / do. Not all the time. But some of the time. And I absolutely link it to dissociation and not a physical symptom. That can happen with dissociation in my part of the world. Sorry if you are in a part of the world where it can't. :\

I think in my part of the world, DSM does not dictate reality. I'm sure it's not migraine related. I don't get the headaches. As a child switching involved horrible headaches. Headaches can be part of DID here in my part of the world. This head pressure is different and comes and goes pretty quickly.

[elevatedsoul]

why are things different in different parts of the world?

why is it not a set science across the globe?

on another note, i do get migraines and pressure in my head which i can tell the difference from... is it related to dissociation? i have no clue...

i also get pressure in different parts of my body...

[Luce]

Originally Posted by elevatedsoul

why are things different in different parts of the world?

why is it not a set science across the globe?

on another note, i do get migraines and pressure in my head which i can tell the difference from... is it related to dissociation? i have no clue...

i also get pressure in different parts of my body...

They are not. Dissociation is dissociation is dissociation. It is only the way people interpret things that changes. It doesn't present differently in different parts of the world, it isn't caused by different things in different parts of the world, and it doesn't respond to different treatments in different parts of the world. The experiences of dissociative disorders are the same all over the world. The differences are in how 'the powers that be' interpret them, label them, define them and treat them. And even then you will find that at one end of the street one clinician will believe, define, interpret and treat dissociative disorders one way - with their own unique understanding - while at the other end of the same street another clinician may have a completely different understanding of the same thing. The differences are not so much in what the diagnostic manual says, but in the individual clinicians experience, training and style. Take the DSM-V, for instance. Even though the wording is the same in every copy of it, how it is interpreted and applied in real life situations is dependent on the rationale of the reader.
The international society for the study of trauma and dissociation (ISSTD) has the most widely understood and accepted up to date information about dissociation and guidelines on how to treat it in the world. And it is agreed upon! By people from many different nations! Based on scientifically sound research and data from clinicians all over the world!

[flockpride]

Well said, Luce. The experience is human. I do know that EMDR is internationally recognized as a way to treat trauma. And also, that "conference room/parts" work is internationally recognized for DID. But yes, it is what it is.

Originally Posted by Luce

They are not. Dissociation is dissociation is dissociation. It is only the way people interpret things that changes. It doesn't present differently in different parts of the world, it isn't caused by different things in different parts of the world, and it doesn't respond to different treatments in different parts of the world. The experiences of dissociative disorders are the same all over the world. The differences are in how 'the powers that be' interpret them, label them, define them and treat them. And even then you will find that at one end of the street one clinician will believe, define, interpret and treat dissociative disorders one way - with their own unique understanding - while at the other end of the same street another clinician may have a completely different understanding of the same thing. The differences are not so much in what the diagnostic manual says, but in the individual clinicians experience, training and style. Take the DSM-V, for instance. Even though the wording is the same in every copy of it, how it is interpreted and applied in real life situations is dependent on the rationale of the reader.
The international society for the study of trauma and dissociation (ISSTD) has the most widely understood and accepted up to date information about dissociation and guidelines on how to treat it in the world. And it is agreed upon! By people from many different nations! Based on scientifically sound research and data from clinicians all over the world!

The only time I ever have headaches is when I try to remember something that an Other experienced....trying to access their memories hurt hard and never works.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by flockpride

Well said, Luce. The experience is human. I do know that EMDR is internationally recognized as a way to treat trauma. And also, that "conference room/parts" work is internationally recognized for DID. But yes, it is what it is.

And the best thing with EMDR is that more and more the training institutes are recognizing that it is imperative for EMDR ts to know about structural dissociation so it is becoming a part of the advanced training.... which means many more ts who have a better understanding about DID!

[L.P.]

I do not recall feeling a pressure in my head beforehand... after is another story entirely. Not sure if anyone else in my system does.

Veda

yes, its oftena pressure, or suddn headache

[finding_my_way]

i don't have black out type switching, and it doesn't happen every single time, but there is head pressure sometimes and a headache, a dull one that i sometimes barely can feel or recognize though.

the head pressure for me goes across the front of my head to the sides. i don't get migraines though. in the past, i apparently used to get headaches (read that in a journal).