Posted by shelliR on August 3, 2001, at 22:41:01
In reply to Re: stuff » shelliR, posted by Elizabeth on August 3, 2001, at 15:12:14
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> I can see the utility of that. I think I've encountered other people who are co-conscious, like you are. Was there ever a time when you weren't co-conscious? Because I think that the only cases of this version of DDNOS that I've heard of have been the result of people achieving co-consciousness through therapy, so it could be considered "DID in partial remission."Once I knew I had kids inside, as each one let her presence be known, I was always co-conscious. This is also true for several other people I have met in the hospital or at a support group that I was part of for several years. So no, "DID in partial remisison" would not work for us. One of the hardest things for me was the awareness of a second child. I was so confused that I didn't even realize that it was a different child; I thought that the other one was just acting really different. So then when I realized, I was scared that I wouldn't know which child was talking to me. And that does happen, and sometimes I have to ask. Now it doesn't seem like a big deal, but then I was in a total panic about it. Also child one was not happy to share me, actually pretty scared that I might forget about her.
And I have a child who looked like the elephant man when I looked at her in my mind for the first time (I never really thought much about how they look--just normal) So when my therapist asked me and that's what I saw I totally flipped, I felt so awful and I dissociated this personality into two distinct personalities--it was very strange and I've been working with this child for a long time to get her to feel okay, since I totally screwed up.
Lorraine, perhaps you can identify in terms of embracing your eight year old.
> Good luck to you. I think that brief-acting drugs (opioids, stimulants) probably are best used with an antidepressant in the background, so to speak. I'm definitely doing much better on buprenorphine and desipramine than I was on buprenorphine alone or desipramine alone (I stopped the buprenorphine for a short time when I first started taking the DMI).
>Thanks. Today was a pretty good day and I didn't supplement the oxy. And the plan was always to have an AD in there also, because the AD I was stopping was prozac, I had a long waiting period. Monday is five weeks.
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> Early 1960's, I would think. It's just the primary active metabolite of imipramine, the first TCA. I appear to be a "slow hydroxylator" (meaning, in particular, that I don't metabolise TCAs properly), which might explain why I never was able to tolerate other TCAs (amoxapine, nortriptyline) past 75 mg.
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> Desipramine isn't a perfect success, but it does seem to be a suitable substitute for Parnate (with less hassle involved).
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and it gives you more options for adjuncts. Have you ever tried buprenorphine in pill form , sub-what-ever?Later, Shelli
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