Posted by terra miller on August 2, 2001, at 23:21:16
In reply to Re: mostly to one of the three of you :-) » terra miller, posted by shelliR on August 2, 2001, at 21:15:43
> Ah, I think that would be me you are addressing!hello. :-)
>I have weird children. They woke up at night in the hospital and asked my roommate to get them soy milk because they were thirsty :-) Yours sound more normal--chocolate donuts--definitely.
:-) funny you should mention soymilk. :-)
> I don't know what you mean by "get your meds to work the right way?" Do you mean kids inside don't want to swallow pills? Or different pills are for different parts? I don't think it's something that comes up for me, but I'm not sure if I know what you mean.
yeah. here's the deal. we take wellbutrin. we've went through a whole line of AD's. for a while i forgot why i started even looking for meds. then i remembered that we have suicide issues from time to time that put us in danger and need to be dealt with, like it or not. so it's kind of a "you will take this whether you want to or not" kind of thing. and the wellbutrin has been very helpful to calm whoever it is that needs it... which is hard to describe except that i know that i know that i know that somebody in here is being helped and that i no longer can "get suicidal" even if i wanted to. it's hard to explain it.
but when it comes to sleeping meds. that's another story. i can drug myself up only to find myself wandering around the house looking for food. or i can not drug myself up and find myself wandering around the house. at least i "come to." before, i wouldn't "come to" but somebody was smart enough to leave a trail (that is, empty cans of dt.pepsi on the counter) so that i would know the next morning that i had been up in the middle of the night. i'd do things and accomplish things and, well, sigh. anyway, so i have to do all this communicating to "bargain" for a complete night's sleep. same with anxiety meds. can't get them to work either. just sometimes. and i can't drink anymore... two sips and i feel it... except parts of me can drink a truckdriver under the table, so it depends. i've just read other people saying that it's just too difficult to prescribe meds to people with DID (example: an alter with diabetes vs. other part which does not) and have been told by some that they just gave up on meds altogether because it had become such a battle and was unhelpful. so that's why i was wondering if anybody had an answer to this dilemma.
it's so confusing. you've got one body and one brain. and you've just got this brain that made all these compartments so you could handle everything. but you've still just got one brain and one body. i don't get how one brain could function as many brains and respond chemically different in those different "parts." it's still just one brain and one body. i can't understand it.
thanks for writing -terra
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