Comments | multiplicity: Where did they all go?

hiddenhikari in multiplicity

Where did they all go?

Mar 18, 2013 19:07

So, this is Kayla, the host, speaking right now. I just got out of my third hospitalization where a doctor told me that I 'don't follow specific characteristics of people with multiple personalities or with dissociative identity' and said that because I can communicate with my other personalities it means that its all just my imagination and that I ( Read more... )

fear of faking/ being seen as faking, system changes, psychiatric view, multiplicity, faking, unsure, psychotherapy, self-injury, people leaving/missing, hearing voices, trauma, multiple without mpd/did, am i multiple?, non-trauma multiplicity, medication, therapy, psychiatric abuse

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gavinfox March 18 2013, 23:40:09 UTC

1.) Are you being compelled to take the medicine?

2.) Have you self-injured recently?

3.) Can you go to a different doctor?

4.) Have you told him that the DSM-V is specifically changing the definition of this, for this very reason? That the multiplicity disorder only exists for people who have problems functioning, and doesn't make any judgements on the subjective experiences of people, only the issues functioning?

chequeredring March 19 2013, 00:04:55 UTC

This scares me in ways I can't even begin to describe...

I have fleeting moments of fearing this happening if the relationship between my other half and her boyfriend doesn't get better. I'm really worried that my other half will find a way to "get rid of me."

When I express that anxiety to my girlfriend, she (a singlet) will casually talk me out of the anxiety, since my system is the same as you've described yours.

- Not trauma based
- Fully aware of each other
- Doesn't fit the MPD/DiD spectrum
- Doesn't fit the psychosis spectrum

My girlfriend often assures me that even if my other half puts us on medication, because I am a person, it wouldn't affect me in the same manner as the medication's intended: it "doesn't work that way with people"...

But it sounds like the medication you're on does take the others away?
Does it leave you numb as well?

I honestly don't know what to tell you mate... Is the medication really something you have to take? Perhaps you could stop taking it?

Meds.... dodge12 March 19 2013, 04:00:40 UTC

can block communication, for sure.

And I've heard that certain types of over the counter cough suryp, if they're misused they can actually cause integration. Which is fine if you want to integrate.

It's very very hard to know that someone else wants to get rid of you, or even might want to.

Also, meds affect different people differently, singlets as well as multis. So, no one knows for sure how a med works one hundred percent of the time, for all people.

Please feel free to friend me if you'd like, I'll listen. (I'll probably talk as well, but I'm a pretty good listener.)

gavinfox March 19 2013, 00:22:30 UTC

Frankly, I'm a singlet, and a lot of those medications still fuck you up. Remove (while you are on them) most of your personality and emotion and stuff... make you tired all the time... for at least some of them, you know?

Are you self-harming or depressed or full of anxiety or anything like that, which would be a cause for you to be on medication, OTHER than voices??

slanderouslibel March 19 2013, 00:47:13 UTC

I got put on Risperidone after telling a shrink about my DID, and didn't even tell him about my alters.
TW!suicide

About three days after the full effects (not having any alters) I overdosed by taking every pill I had (90 day supply of three diff psych meds) and came the closest I've ever been to death.

/TW

Needless to say, I'm wary of meds now. Even OTC painkillers.

Doctors and meds. dodge12 March 19 2013, 03:41:25 UTC

We've had it happen to us ( ... )