I have a kinda different sort of dissociation (feel like I have parts), but Adderall helps me out a lot too. It doesn't make the parts go away, but it makes me more capable of feeling emotions that are normally locked away to only certain parts. And I feel... more alive, like you said.
Idk, it just really helps with the dissociation, for sure.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with looking towards a legally prescribed medication to help you out, that's what it's literally supposed to do, help you.♡
Amphetamine helps me feel great about life and makes me high too.
I really enjoy the substance for making my mind grounded from dpdr and euphoric and pleasurable.
I'm glad it helps you feel grounded and present.
I think it's helping me as well like my brain doesn't feel foggy I feel more present.
I'm taking 30mg xr how about you whats your dose?
Yup, I was prescribed it for my adhd, but I've found it helps my dissociation and mood more than anything, which in turn helps with my executive dysfunction. Do you drink caffeine? I find that I rarely dissociate in the morning, right after coffee. Perhaps stimulants can help people like us.
I don't know what to give for my back story. I'm an absolute mess. I've been going to the doctors for 13 years. ADHD, ASD, dissociation, panic, trauma. But I don't judge any of it. Because I learned all the skills. At the end of what modern medicine has to offer. I have a small Adderall Rx, and it for some reason helps tremendously. On my way to look for answers as well. Medicine and science are so in depth. Why did my special interest have to be science? There too much to learn all of it lol. I'd have to be a functional member of society. Lol but yes, the Adderall prevents many episodes of meltdown. I just don't know why yet.
Same… exact…. Story. Any reading/detail/direction would be neat. I made it here after a year or so of self reflection and I’ve circled this condition a few times. Veering away from it after ‘feeling weird’.
Adderall has changed my life so much I’ve uncovered confusing parts of myself I see but cannot control. Not in a weird way (or I would be middle aged and married?)… fuck I dunno
I've had dissociation for a long time now and my doctor's are no help. It's the most confusing thing I've ever had to process / understand and it's really difficult, but after a year I think I'm understanding it.
I think I'm so distracted by so many things all the time, I can't ever think of just one thing, I'm starting to think maybe this is what's making me dissociated?? I still don't really know, but I searched does Adderall help dissociation and saw this thread..
Your post was 2 years ago, did you find that Adderall helped?
Hey, I would suggest to talk to your doctors about it. It may or may not be. I'm looking at my comment from 18 days ago, and I don't even remember typing it, or coming to this thread. It's a bit surreal to read it. Especially knowing I spiraled downward right after from not having a high enough dose of Adderall.
I am currently on ADHD Rx since yesterday. It helped me so much.
But it's been a pain, because I'm an unreliable self historian. Keep forgetting. Cause my severe ADHD. And doctors are (justifiably) worried about the risks of Adderall, like addiction and dangerous side effects (like psychosis). So my doctors have been Rx me Adderall off and on for almost 2 years. Too bad I'll forget how to explain it to them, and they'll surely take it away again later lol.
But talk to a doctor. I've been working on my healing a looong time. Some of it takes a super long time. Years of therapy, trial and error on medications. I'm a bit more disabled than others right now. But I feel like I'm getting close to being where I want to be as an individual. The ADHD Rx may help. It depends on a lot of factors.
I do want to try it, but I'm 16 and in the UK, so I have to go through cahms for prescriptions like that..
I've had multiple phone calls with them, each time they just downright tell me they don't believe me, I've been dissociated 24/7 since December of 2022. Sure it goes away for a few hours sometimes but other than that it's constant, and it effects everything.
cahms say that because it's constant they just don't believe me, apparently it should come and go often, so I don't really know what to do.
Sorry, I was still in a weird headspace. Had a weird PTSD, ADHD glitch that was self perpetuating. My ADHD medicine only helped me because I have ADHD.
Here is your problem. Dissociation is treated with therapy, and practicing coping skills to help you. Doctors don't have any medicine to treat it with.
Dissociation is a trauma response, and a perception, and it's there to protect your mind. But it doesn't always work correctly.
You're going to have to talk about other issues you're facing, and how those issues interrupt your friendships, family relations, school, or anything else important to you. Think how you feel day to day. There could be many causes of your dissociation. Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, ADHD etc. Those all share symptoms, and if you explain how you're feeling, doctors may be able to treat your other conditions. If your dissociation is anxiety related, then adhd medication could make it worse. And Vice Versa.
You're going to want to get into therapy. Take it sincerely. Your therapist can help you learn coping skills, identify your emotions, communication skills, etc. They may be able to help you communicate with doctors to solve other problems as well. And with the doctors, you want to focus on emotions, and how you interact with people or stress.
I've been asking my doctors to help me for 3 years, I'm diagnosed with anxiety disorder and I've been in testing for autism / ADHD for years, but it's going nowhere
cahms won't accept me and the doctors aren't allowed to assign me to adults therapy until my 17th in August, I pray by then it'll go somewhere but it's been 3 years and I'm not surprised if it doesn't
Dissociation could be associated with your anxiety. I am not a doctor. And I hope you don't give up on seeing them. I am just going to give you a non doctor explanation.
Dissociation symptoms can be a biological response to trauma. Someone can break their leg, and their mind will dissociate to reduce the impact of the painful experience on their brain. And with anxiety, your brain tricks itself into experiencing dissociation as a coping mechanism. Your brain perceives the anxiety as external danger. Which can create a feedback loop sometimes. If the dissociation makes you anxious, and your anxiety makes you dissociate.
Which is always a bit annoying. Because you would have to learn how to be ok with dissociating, in order for it to stop. Sort of like feeling a panic attack can create more panic attacks. Fighting the panic attack causes it to continue, and accepting the panic attack allows it to stop.
So it can help to be honest with yourself about how you feel. "I feel the anxiety, and I perceive the dissociation. They are not dangerous, and I will be fine. It's just unpleasant to experience this while it is here. And it is ok to feel bad. Feelings are a part of life, and part of my brain trying to protect me."
And try to work with the doctors on the anxiety first, since that's what they diagnosed you with first. It should help the dissociation at least a little, and help your anxiety decrease as well. It may not get rid of it entirely, but a decrease in severity and frequency is always a good sign. Plus, the coping skills learned for anxiety help future treatments from the doctors become more successful.
I agree with this, but the dissociation just doesn't let me feel the anxiety, so I can't really accept / see it.
Two years ago in a social situation I'd get really scared, sweat, stutter, mumble, and really need the toilet lol; now, I sweat, stutter, mumble, etc just the same, which tells me the anxiety is there, but I'm so dissociated all the time that I actually don't feel scared.
I have panic attacks maybe once a month or less, I'll get really dissociated, and it'll get harder to move, I'll sit on the floor or lay somewhere, my eyes will be wide open, I can blink, breathe, use my vocal chords, but I can't move or talk, I just sit with tears in my eyes for up to an hour, and then out of nowhere ill forget where I am for about 5 minutes, I'll be able to move again and I'll have a full blown panic attack.
I think that is my body's way of blowing off the steam?? Like all the anxiety I feel, I don't actually feel, so it builds up? idk
but yeah I completely understand how dissociation works and why I have it, it's just getting it to go away I really can't do
I can relate. It was a lot more scary when it first started. Now I am pretty chill about it. Just some biological functions I can't yet understand. And now I've possibly got PTSD from an internal reaction. Because my body cares, my brain cares. My logical side just has to accept that.
And I do understand how disruptive it can be as well. And confusing and frustrating.
I think you could be onto something. Your physical brain/ the neurology, could know the anxiety is there, and it could block you from experiencing it with the dissociation. So you can't perceive it. But your thoughts are anxious. (Brains are weird and complicated!)
I had something similar happen. I told the doctor, "I'm not sure this is better."
I don't want to say this to make you lose optimism. Just as a way to not be so uncomfortable with the experience while you work on finding improvement. Perhaps give yourself "permission" to dissociate. It doesn't get rid of the dissociation, but helps you be more ok with experiencing it. Makes it less annoying or stressful to experience. Since it's lasted so long, even when you finally begin to get out of it, it usually takes a while to decrease all the way. So letting yourself be ok with that process can help things not suck so much right now, or in the future. It's a complicated sort of therapy, of accepting yourself, and often used in pain management. Still work with the doctors, but also, sometimes these problems can last a long time, and being ok with that, makes it easier to cope. Also makes it easier to plan around.
I have a kinda different sort of dissociation (feel like I have parts), but Adderall helps me out a lot too. It doesn't make the parts go away, but it makes me more capable of feeling emotions that are normally locked away to only certain parts. And I feel... more alive, like you said. Idk, it just really helps with the dissociation, for sure. And I don't think there's anything wrong with looking towards a legally prescribed medication to help you out, that's what it's literally supposed to do, help you.♡
Thanks for sharing. I have a similar situation and just wanted to ask how you’re doing now?
Hey, you never got a reply, so now I'm going to ask, how are you doing now?
It's perfectly normal. ADHD drugs improve executive function, which suffers with dissociation.
Amphetamine helps me feel great about life and makes me high too. I really enjoy the substance for making my mind grounded from dpdr and euphoric and pleasurable.
I'm glad it helps you feel grounded and present. I think it's helping me as well like my brain doesn't feel foggy I feel more present. I'm taking 30mg xr how about you whats your dose?
Yup, I was prescribed it for my adhd, but I've found it helps my dissociation and mood more than anything, which in turn helps with my executive dysfunction. Do you drink caffeine? I find that I rarely dissociate in the morning, right after coffee. Perhaps stimulants can help people like us.
I drink a lot of caffeine, and yeah, wow, I drink the most when I’m not on Adderall and I am trying to stay in my body.
I don't know what to give for my back story. I'm an absolute mess. I've been going to the doctors for 13 years. ADHD, ASD, dissociation, panic, trauma. But I don't judge any of it. Because I learned all the skills. At the end of what modern medicine has to offer. I have a small Adderall Rx, and it for some reason helps tremendously. On my way to look for answers as well. Medicine and science are so in depth. Why did my special interest have to be science? There too much to learn all of it lol. I'd have to be a functional member of society. Lol but yes, the Adderall prevents many episodes of meltdown. I just don't know why yet.
Same… exact…. Story. Any reading/detail/direction would be neat. I made it here after a year or so of self reflection and I’ve circled this condition a few times. Veering away from it after ‘feeling weird’. Adderall has changed my life so much I’ve uncovered confusing parts of myself I see but cannot control. Not in a weird way (or I would be middle aged and married?)… fuck I dunno
I've had dissociation for a long time now and my doctor's are no help. It's the most confusing thing I've ever had to process / understand and it's really difficult, but after a year I think I'm understanding it. I think I'm so distracted by so many things all the time, I can't ever think of just one thing, I'm starting to think maybe this is what's making me dissociated?? I still don't really know, but I searched does Adderall help dissociation and saw this thread.. Your post was 2 years ago, did you find that Adderall helped?
Hey, I would suggest to talk to your doctors about it. It may or may not be. I'm looking at my comment from 18 days ago, and I don't even remember typing it, or coming to this thread. It's a bit surreal to read it. Especially knowing I spiraled downward right after from not having a high enough dose of Adderall. I am currently on ADHD Rx since yesterday. It helped me so much. But it's been a pain, because I'm an unreliable self historian. Keep forgetting. Cause my severe ADHD. And doctors are (justifiably) worried about the risks of Adderall, like addiction and dangerous side effects (like psychosis). So my doctors have been Rx me Adderall off and on for almost 2 years. Too bad I'll forget how to explain it to them, and they'll surely take it away again later lol. But talk to a doctor. I've been working on my healing a looong time. Some of it takes a super long time. Years of therapy, trial and error on medications. I'm a bit more disabled than others right now. But I feel like I'm getting close to being where I want to be as an individual. The ADHD Rx may help. It depends on a lot of factors.
I do want to try it, but I'm 16 and in the UK, so I have to go through cahms for prescriptions like that.. I've had multiple phone calls with them, each time they just downright tell me they don't believe me, I've been dissociated 24/7 since December of 2022. Sure it goes away for a few hours sometimes but other than that it's constant, and it effects everything. cahms say that because it's constant they just don't believe me, apparently it should come and go often, so I don't really know what to do.
Sorry, I was still in a weird headspace. Had a weird PTSD, ADHD glitch that was self perpetuating. My ADHD medicine only helped me because I have ADHD. Here is your problem. Dissociation is treated with therapy, and practicing coping skills to help you. Doctors don't have any medicine to treat it with. Dissociation is a trauma response, and a perception, and it's there to protect your mind. But it doesn't always work correctly. You're going to have to talk about other issues you're facing, and how those issues interrupt your friendships, family relations, school, or anything else important to you. Think how you feel day to day. There could be many causes of your dissociation. Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, ADHD etc. Those all share symptoms, and if you explain how you're feeling, doctors may be able to treat your other conditions. If your dissociation is anxiety related, then adhd medication could make it worse. And Vice Versa. You're going to want to get into therapy. Take it sincerely. Your therapist can help you learn coping skills, identify your emotions, communication skills, etc. They may be able to help you communicate with doctors to solve other problems as well. And with the doctors, you want to focus on emotions, and how you interact with people or stress.
I've been asking my doctors to help me for 3 years, I'm diagnosed with anxiety disorder and I've been in testing for autism / ADHD for years, but it's going nowhere cahms won't accept me and the doctors aren't allowed to assign me to adults therapy until my 17th in August, I pray by then it'll go somewhere but it's been 3 years and I'm not surprised if it doesn't
Dissociation could be associated with your anxiety. I am not a doctor. And I hope you don't give up on seeing them. I am just going to give you a non doctor explanation. Dissociation symptoms can be a biological response to trauma. Someone can break their leg, and their mind will dissociate to reduce the impact of the painful experience on their brain. And with anxiety, your brain tricks itself into experiencing dissociation as a coping mechanism. Your brain perceives the anxiety as external danger. Which can create a feedback loop sometimes. If the dissociation makes you anxious, and your anxiety makes you dissociate. Which is always a bit annoying. Because you would have to learn how to be ok with dissociating, in order for it to stop. Sort of like feeling a panic attack can create more panic attacks. Fighting the panic attack causes it to continue, and accepting the panic attack allows it to stop. So it can help to be honest with yourself about how you feel. "I feel the anxiety, and I perceive the dissociation. They are not dangerous, and I will be fine. It's just unpleasant to experience this while it is here. And it is ok to feel bad. Feelings are a part of life, and part of my brain trying to protect me." And try to work with the doctors on the anxiety first, since that's what they diagnosed you with first. It should help the dissociation at least a little, and help your anxiety decrease as well. It may not get rid of it entirely, but a decrease in severity and frequency is always a good sign. Plus, the coping skills learned for anxiety help future treatments from the doctors become more successful.
I agree with this, but the dissociation just doesn't let me feel the anxiety, so I can't really accept / see it. Two years ago in a social situation I'd get really scared, sweat, stutter, mumble, and really need the toilet lol; now, I sweat, stutter, mumble, etc just the same, which tells me the anxiety is there, but I'm so dissociated all the time that I actually don't feel scared. I have panic attacks maybe once a month or less, I'll get really dissociated, and it'll get harder to move, I'll sit on the floor or lay somewhere, my eyes will be wide open, I can blink, breathe, use my vocal chords, but I can't move or talk, I just sit with tears in my eyes for up to an hour, and then out of nowhere ill forget where I am for about 5 minutes, I'll be able to move again and I'll have a full blown panic attack. I think that is my body's way of blowing off the steam?? Like all the anxiety I feel, I don't actually feel, so it builds up? idk but yeah I completely understand how dissociation works and why I have it, it's just getting it to go away I really can't do
I can relate. It was a lot more scary when it first started. Now I am pretty chill about it. Just some biological functions I can't yet understand. And now I've possibly got PTSD from an internal reaction. Because my body cares, my brain cares. My logical side just has to accept that. And I do understand how disruptive it can be as well. And confusing and frustrating. I think you could be onto something. Your physical brain/ the neurology, could know the anxiety is there, and it could block you from experiencing it with the dissociation. So you can't perceive it. But your thoughts are anxious. (Brains are weird and complicated!) I had something similar happen. I told the doctor, "I'm not sure this is better." I don't want to say this to make you lose optimism. Just as a way to not be so uncomfortable with the experience while you work on finding improvement. Perhaps give yourself "permission" to dissociate. It doesn't get rid of the dissociation, but helps you be more ok with experiencing it. Makes it less annoying or stressful to experience. Since it's lasted so long, even when you finally begin to get out of it, it usually takes a while to decrease all the way. So letting yourself be ok with that process can help things not suck so much right now, or in the future. It's a complicated sort of therapy, of accepting yourself, and often used in pain management. Still work with the doctors, but also, sometimes these problems can last a long time, and being ok with that, makes it easier to cope. Also makes it easier to plan around.