Medication For Fragmentation

[yoshixvx]

Hi, quick question. I'm going to see my GP this afternoon and am wondering if there are any medications that control fragments or prevent them from speaking to me or coming forward?

My anxiety has been through the roof lately. I just ended my first round of group trauma therapy and don't have a T or psychiatrist. Basically it taught me some new skills, but also opened up old wounds, so I feel like I am going crazy. Hearing voices from other fragments (abuser) telling me what to do, as well as fueling thoughts that feed into obsession, paranoia and delusional thinking.

Currently I am taking a low dose of Amitryptiline, which I have been on for a year, and it doesn't help anything - not even sleep. Increasing it just made me irritable and everything 10x worse. I've tried most other SSRIs/TCAs and they have yielded the same results.

I feel like I am going insane. The fragments are coming forward and sabotaging my relationship, my partner is fed up, and I have been forced to accept that maybe this will never go away.

But I'm hoping that maybe someone out there can relate and share what has worked for them.

 

[iwillbeme]

My doctor says to stay away fro meds right now. The traumatic event for me only took place in December though. I see a wonderful Psychologist. She gives me exercises to do. the one that helped the most was breathing and mindfulness. I listen to flight of the bumble bees. I fallow the notes in my head. for 60 sec that all I do. No thinking about what happened. The breathing is on the count of four. Breathing for 4 secs, hold for 4 secs, breath out for 4 secs and wait for 4 secs. I do it while looking at a square (window frame, light switch, anything that is a square/rectangle shape). It helps get through the doom I feel when memories come back.

 

[BigBear]

I just ended my first round of group trauma therapy and don't have a T or psychiatrist.

I would worry about doing a group therapy without at least a T.

Bear

 

[Justmehere]

If seeing a psychiatrist possible, I would highly recommend it. There are many medications that have the potential to help with the symptoms you describe. I have taken antipsychotics myself even though I didn't have delusional thinking patterns, and I found it helpful for anxiety alone. They helped me learn skills better and I didn't need them for very long myself. They have the potential to calm everything down.

 

[yoshixvx]

I would worry about doing a group therapy without at least a T.

Yes in hindsight, I don't think I should have been allowed to participate in the group. It has destabilized me completely (not that I was incredibly stable before, but my co-morbid depression and eating disorders were).

Back from the GP with a script for Seroquel, taken off the Amitryptiline. I have an assessment with a P in about 2 weeks, so I hope it will hold me over until then.

 

[BigBear]

It has destabilized me completely

One of the things that I've found about effective therapy is that initially it does have a destabilizing effect. However usually that is limited to one or a few areas, not overall. The therapist has knocked a few pieces in very bad places loose and nudged them so that they will tend to settle in a better places. Initially it hurts, but it heals better. Think of it as a broken arm that was never set. It healed badly. The Doctors have no choice but to rebreak it and set it properly.

I only say this because I don't want you to think that good therapy will be painless. It is really painful. But later on, you are so grateful to the therapist.

Bear