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Clonidine is generic for Catapres that I have had a good experience with, without any side effects. Simple: I rec'd it from a regular family Doc for my Chronic PTSD. Effective and Fast Acting: I think it was the best med for my PTSD that I ever had. No Daytime Drowsiness: This is big. You...

Geranium Essential Oil, about 2 drops on the edge of the pillow at night, daily, will actually push my dreams into positive territory. It's shocking how well it works, until the effect sort of plateaus as you build up a tolerance, I suppose.

I have been contacting the neighbor who I have been obsessed with forever. I don't care what happens to me anymore. I go to a new T. Friday. I'm trying to be strong. I no longer care about the torture. I can live with it forever. What real torture is is that I could hurt and leave my love. I...

This has come back on me. I now see I was tortured at home by my dad and his friend, George, and at church by all his sick friends. At home in the garage, it involved being pressed almost to death under a sheet of plywood. They laid me naked on the cement floor and placed a large board bigger...

Now that I know I have DID, this alter has come out and talked to J. Her name is "T." She is unchanged from this description five years ago that I totally forgot about. With DID, alters come to the front often for a time during times of stress. But they retreat again and someone else fronts. I...

It's not easy being the only one who remembers. My sibling could tell me of incidents that indicate that the abusive parent was on a drug one time, but then deny and defend later. Denial is a concrete wall, and it keeps people from connecting the dots in life about the past and what happened...

Jeez. Why on Earth would anyone give a care about sharks like this? Nuts.

Because the symptoms of PTSD run through the ego states experienced in DID systems, sufferers of PTSD only will always concur with some symptomology. This does not logically exclude a DID Dx. Therefore it still comes down to presenting all of the known facts to a qualified psychiatrist and...

Swift, I think I agree massive and flashbacks worse times than an alter fronting for sure. Although some alters are dissociative kids. Really hard on me when they try fronting. Would rather just blackout.

Yeah, that's the PTSD talking, for sure. You're right about it being too much stress for sufferers. Too many appointments is always tough. I try to keep those to one per day so that if anything goes wrong, it's just one thing to cancel or reschedule. Not always possible, but a goal that has...

Thanks, I tried before, but that doesn't work on my Android phone. ? I can't do the Forum on my work laptop. Not private. I'll find a workaround soon.

I believe everything you said is entirely normal after trauma. It's normal to have somatization of traumatic experience as well as just feel physical symptoms and not realize that they could be attached to the traumatic memories or experience. I suggest that you find a female and near your own...

Thank you for clarifying how it's been categorized. I'll try to find things that way. ?

I have had to observe, but also things I didn't know were ever in my house were moved and other things knocked down where they were moved to. Only I could have moved them. But literally was shocked to discover this. I didn't know how stuff got knocked off shelves. It appeared as if I had been...

Somatic symptoms that I know are no longer PTSD realm and force me to reckon with possible DID: Upon accepting a visit with a trigger person, instead of the usual emotional checking in and processing, which I did daily, as well as the last minute anger freaking out that is per the usual in...

One reason I don't want to do therapy is that I don't want people seeing me switch. Too vulnerable for me. I hated having friends around during blackouts, switching, and any behavior that"I" can't begin to explain to myself much less anyone else. In therapy, when it happened, My defense system...

I agree with the above assessments for DID Forums so far. Is there an appropriate thread or place herin for discussion about PTSD symptoms that involves a lot of DID type of symptoms? Thank you for all ideas.

Love. What it is and what it isn't. Over and over again.

Self diagnosis is a concern to me when it comes to PTSD, OCD, and disorders that are treated as "real" by the vast majority of practicing clinicians. DID is not. I'm able to quickly find articles published in reputable online magazines and by licensed researchers and clinicians in the USA...

I know this isn't a DID forum. I've done a ton of work on processing my traumatic early childhood memories. An 2011, I started experiencing frequent flashbacks and basically found out a ton of information on my past hitherto unknown to me but felt on an emotional level. much of what I remember...

Ever since my oldest went away to college I've been dealing with a lot more switching. And in fact different altars are coming to the front to speak now. The altar with the crush is deeply sad that she can't be in touch with him and doesn't get to come to front and live in actual life. She is...

I'm back to talk myself through the DID issues coming up for me recently. One of my alters argues with me while dreaming. I was watching her dreaming about ways she manipulates me. She claims that she's going to take control of the body and leave my family and go be happy living with her crush...

My spouse has discouraged me from being on the forum since he saw a high correlation between time spent on it and negative mood. The reality is having those "hard conversations" within oneself (and doing the forum "is that") does exact a certain cost when it exceeds my coping skills. I'd like...

Yes, I think I understand and relate. As I have researched this type of phenomenon within chronic PTSD, whereby chunks of life seem like they happened to someone else almost, good or bad, this is, last I checked about 2016, this was considered a form of dissociation. Depression, like...

Looking back in human history at belief about the spirit world has helped me frame my experiences and also find new ways of thinking about spiritual abuse as I would define it in my own existence, rather than apply a ready-made definition to my experiences. The former is more authentic and...