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[blue-bullet.livejournal.com]

Uh, well, hello! :D; New to this community, and things like that. ^^;

We are a multiple system, and...I'm bad at introductions. We're pretty big, considering. But alot of people who are "here" don't come to the front often. We've been loosely calling ourself an 'open system', where people can come and go as they please. Some people stay, others drop by, then leave. High traffic, oftenly. >__> But it makes things interesting.

We found this community by journal hopping, so made an account to join (because if we joined on the other account, we'd get some raised eyebrows from people ;-;).

Oh! Sorry, um, my name is Ticker, though just commonly Tick. >__> And I come bearing questions!

We've been (officially) a system for maybe two years now, due to constant denial and constantly thinking "OHEMGEE DID is bad!", but yeah..those thoughts passed, we opened our arms to everyone and were like "Hey! Hell with that!". People'd been lurking around here long before, but you know..

But two things: One is that, lately, we've been having trouble communicating Inside and Out. It's like there's a screen between the two, and only little pieces of residual are getting through, and we can't See clearly. D: And we were wondering if anyone has had something like this happen before, and if anyone has any idea of how to, I guess, remove that screen?

It also makes people going In and Out difficult, and there've been times when people who aren't comfortable being Out from long periods of time, being sort of "Stuck".

The second thing, is that we have Schizophrenia, on top of this (though the Schizophrenia is troublesome, whereas this is not). I don't know if it's really a body-oriented thing, or if the er..host (? I don't know what else to call Her >__>) has it and it's just filtering through. But regardless, it's there, and it makes things really unstable and confusing (thankfully, it isn't severe, but it has..er..grown in the past year).

So we were wondering if anyone else is in a similar situation with that, or not. Because honestly, we want to go to a Psychiatrist and get medication for it (we haven't seen our Psychiatrist in a few years, which was originally only for anxiety. But he diagnosed us with Schizophrenia and WAS going to prescribe us medicine, but we declined and hadn't gone back since~), but we don't know how the medicine would effect us as a whole, what it would do, or anything like that.

Thank you for your help, everyone who may reply, and thank you for even reading! >__> :D

- Ticker

Comments

[tahaton.livejournal.com]

Welcome =)

I *think* schizophrenia tends to be a body problem. We have depression as a body problem, and for a time had it as a problem of someone else inside as well (she fronted a lot at the time as well, so it was a rough patch for all).

I would try it. If it does bad things, you can come off it again. We've had a load of anti-depressants, and anti-anxiety meds, none have affected us as an us. I even take an anti-psychotic to help me sleep, it has never bothered us. If it did I'd just not take it.

All meds affect everybody a little differently, so your best bet is to see how it affects you and see whether or not you like it =)


We sometimes have problems with communicating. Most of what we do is just wait for it to pass. We've tried a bunch of things like meditation and whatnot, and they didn't work much. Eventually things just get better. You could try visualisation like somebody suggested, that's how we put walls up so maybe it'd work bringing walls down or getting through them.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Just a note about that kind of drug (I assume you know this part, but for anyone else who might be reading): if you *do* take it just on an 'experimental basis,' you still have to be careful about tapering off. Antipsychotics/neuroleptics can actually make you feel crazier while you're in withdrawal than you did before you were prescribed them. (And then some doctors will say "Well, this proves you need it" and put you back on...)

We can't take those kinds of drugs at all, ourselves. They make our sensory input really fragmentary, and do bad things to our in-system communication. (Not in the sense that we start losing time, but whoever is out front can't talk to anybody who is not at front.)

[tahaton.livejournal.com]

Eep, yeah. I'm so used to psych meds I forget to mention things like that. I don't taper the anti-psychotic I take because I don't take it consistantly (like if you take an anti-anxiety for a panic attack here and there, rather than every day), but yeah if you take it every day taper it. I forget that isn't a universally known fact. I also forget not everybody is as google-addicted over-cautious as me =P

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

I assume your psychiatrist explains these things when he prescribes such medicine for you, too. (For others reading, a good psychiatrist always explains thoroughly how to take something, how much to take at a time, what to expect, side effects, tells you not to drink alcohol or take recreational drugs while you're using it, how to increase and decrease, etc.)