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D.I.D....

SmcSenior Contributor30 Dec 2016, 4:14 pm AEDT

D.I.D....

Wanting to know if there's anyone else in this group caring for someone with D.I.D.?

We've got a family member with a very "crowded" internal world of multiple personalities. This goes along with compulsive behaviours, phobias, social anxiety, derealisation and other difficulties. The person in question sees medical and psychological practitioners regularly; it's a disorder that apparently doesn't respond to medication, and they have previously reacted badly to medications that have been trialled; I'm seeing a psychologist regularly myself to deal with the pressure and get some feedback/backup. I have a supportive husband and family, but otherwise it's hard to know how to or who to talk with about what's going on. It's an uncommon enough disorder that you have to explain an awful lot about it before a conversation can even really start, and then you run into dangerous ground regarding the privacy of the person in question.

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Unknown userMember03 Feb 2019, 10:28 pm AEDT

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@Smc

Forays into the garden = 😀

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SmcSenior Contributor04 Feb 2019, 8:20 am AEDT

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All's quiet until it's not.
SH yesterday, so she rang from the hospital about dinner time to ask if she could get a lift home afterwards. Hubby went in to get her about at our normal bedtime, so we had a late night last night, and of course didn't sleep really well.

We'll finally get to see the MHS psychiatrist this week, so I think we'll be asking whether her medication needs a bit more of a review. There's one that she's on for a different condition that does have a warning that it can increase thoughts of SH/SI. It's been a bit on the frequent side lately. Bit dangerous. 😞

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Unknown userMember04 Feb 2019, 10:20 am AEDT

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@Smc

I hope that you get good open communication around this and are not fobbed off in relation to med for other condition, pdocs are medically trained doctors and if a multidisciplinary approach is needed that they get onto it.

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Unknown userMember06 Feb 2019, 9:55 am AEDT

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@Smc

Quick check in to see how you are going.

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SmcSenior Contributor06 Feb 2019, 10:34 am AEDT

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Ta @Former-Member . Bit flat.
No "new news" since the last incident.

I'm plain tired of not being able to keep our daughter safe. 😞

Hubby and I had a nice day out yesterday. Was good, we needed that.

It gets hard to find space for our own lives and plans in between assorted crises. But am sure everyone here is familiar with that.

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DeterminedSenior Contributor06 Feb 2019, 10:47 am AEDT

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Thinking of you @Smc

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Unknown userMember06 Feb 2019, 11:02 am AEDT

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@Smc 🙏

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SmcSenior Contributor06 Feb 2019, 5:46 pm AEDT

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Q.E.D....She's back at the hospital. 😞 Waiting for further news.

I don't know whether an admission to the psych unit would be a good thing at the moment or not. It's so under pressure due to nowhere-near-enough-beds that most of the time it's functioning as a containment unit rather than a refuge.

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DeterminedSenior Contributor06 Feb 2019, 6:02 pm AEDT

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Hugs @Smc

Thoughts and prayers are with you .

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SmcSenior Contributor07 Feb 2019, 9:46 am AEDT

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This one's going to need surgical work again. 😞 At the moment, she's still in the local hospital, but they haven't got a specialist surgeon available there, so they're trying to get a bed for her in another hospital about an hour and a half away from here.

We were going to be seeing the MHU psychiatrist this morning, but he's had to cancel the appointment due to illness. Frustrating, because we've been waiting a long time to see him, but maybe for the best given the current uncertain arrangements.

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