What would life be if this condition goes untreated? Other then death because everyone passes on.

Any experiences on life without help?

Where would one possibly end up at...psych ward, Skid row, invalid?

As I grow older....we become more unglued.

Where is this going?

[Laurel1562]

I've asked myself the same questions, except I am in treatment. The body is 57 and if it weren't for the surprise appearance of Billy during EMDR we many never have become aware of our condition, though upon reflection the signs were there our whole life. Now all is so much chaos and it is, "Why now? Our life is half over. Will it get better?" The hope is yes, it will.

I think treatment is worth the risk. It can only get better and without it perhaps it will only get worse. Only you can truly answer the question.

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by AlwaysChanging2

What would life be if this condition goes untreated? Other then death because everyone passes on.

Any experiences on life without help?

Where would one possibly end up at...psych ward, Skid row, invalid?

As I grow older....we become more unglued.

Where is this going?

when I once asked my treatment provider this i was told to look at my past. how have I lived since before I was 5. I wasnt in treatment all those years until i was in college psych class.

by looking at my past I saw that ....

I survived.
I had no idea that I wasnt normal and like others around me
others around me had no idea that I had DID and was not normal
so yea if I wasnt in treatment i would have been fine. life would have gone on as if nothing had happened and I would have lived my life oblivious to my life because I was dissociating. I would have been missing out of things in my life, would not be able to feel emotions, have the memories that I do and so on....

it wasnt fun back in my non treatment days by any means. I was existing, surviving but i was missing out on so much.

my suggestion is reread your past posts when you first joined psych central see how far you have come and decide if you can go back to living life the way you were so many years ago with those same problems happening.

my suggestion is give no treatment a try for a weekend or week or month. dont do any grounding, no relaxation, no what ever you have been doing to heal. not even posting here if being here helps you on a mental of physical level. take time to see what no treatment at all and just surviving is like for you now if you go back to those days of old. this will answer all your questions of what it would be like to give up now.

I do know some that have made that choice and i know some who felt going back to how things used to be would be hurting their self.

for me its a no brainer. I would not give up doing everything that I have learned over the past what ever number of years and go back to just surviving. for me my life and so much better. I also believe that this decision would not only be affecting me but also would affect my wife, children, pets, my job, family and friends. Dissociation problems dont only affect one area of a persons life, its in every part of a persons life even their social, economical, occupation and so much more.

only you can answer what your life would look like with out treatment past/present and future, and whether you would be on skid row, psych ward, invalid, ...

[dlantern]

A dingy ding bat....Not that bad considering!

It seems the older we get, the more we repeat ourselves and shorter the memory gets. It’s like we’re 51 and don’t expect to be alive much longer because life has been a nonstop infusion of toxic chemicals of all kinds since 16.

Maybe just ironing out some creases might be the best that can happen. Life wasn’t suppose to live past 23...

Whatever happens...it’s going to suck.

[MickeyCheeky]

It's hard to tell, AlwaysChanging2. But I think getting treatment is the better option in the long run, even if it doesn't seem that way. I know it's hard. Please don't give up. Sending many hugs to you

It’s so hard predicting the future, so getting feedback from the elder generation is welcomed to make an informed decision. For some unbeknownst reason, I feel therapy will be a difficult process for our system.

Possible trigger:

We tend to have suicidal inclinations and thoughts and half attempts to never be allowed to actually pull the trigger.

Work schedule makes it difficult and the last T meeting almost got me accidentally killed.

I guess I hate wasting time because my time is so fragmented.

Interesting question. For us like everyone locked in cells. Let out to handle a situation. Broke out temporarily & created chaos. Now we know about each other or are learning about them. Now try working together & taking care of each other. A biggie..not afraid of them or of losing control. In the past spent a great deal of time & energy maintaining control. Or at least the appearance of control. Control is an illusion with a heavy price tag. Would not want to go back to those times.

There was a lot of hiding too. Hiding from each other, from the outside world, fear of being found out. Still guarded but not as fearful. Thanks hadn't thought about this.

[manyinsiders]

Well, we have kind of lived this. We were diagnosed at @ age 27, had a few years of treatment. Then a different therapist told us to ignore DID, ignore alters.
That was 30 years ago.
We are back in therapy now. We have a large number of alters. We have a lot of confusion, amnesia and are very easily triggered.
But it is never too late to heal.

[Michael W. Harris]

I have a mild case of dissociative disorder. It very likely is not full DID/MPD. I tried to get treatment so I could use my two engineering degrees.

Yes, I eventually cracked up. Got in trouble. Got a criminal record. Now I am in an assisted living facility for poor veterans.

But. My situation is different from other mild cases. I had no support. Only the insane Mom who caused the mental illness in the first place. If I had just one sane intelligent loved one in my life I probably would not have needed a competent mental health professional so bad.

If you love the sick family members who caused you to have a dissociative disorder, you need someone in your life to help you deal with them. Otherwise it is trigger city.

[dlantern]

There are several things that can happen especially with a large number of alters if in the position to go through cognitive type crap then do so. Engineering degrees and learning who gets mixed in to improve learning is going to take work can be not worth it without good enough support can cause you tell urselves that you are not good enough smart enough.

A few concepts will link together to explain a more coherent narrative, whereas you might have been sharing about a party, lunch , why the major, and any other life issues during the college years.