Dissociative disorders and unspecified psychosis episodes

It seems that every time my system gets into some kind of disarray, I enter state of what psychistricts recognize as episode of unspecified psychosis. Could this be related?

When everyone in your system aren't co-operating with each other it would make your host at the front more dissociated so they'd be showing more symptoms ..brain fog, confusion, unable to function and stuff?

Problem is if you don't help your host out they may end up in hospital or something and you could end up worse off, so maybe best to see if you can find a way to work together?

TheTriForce wrote:When everyone in your system aren't co-operating with each other it would make your host at the front more dissociated so they'd be showing more symptoms ..brain fog, confusion, unable to function and stuff?

Yes, showing more symptoms.

TheTriForce wrote:Problem is if you don't help your host out they may end up in hospital or something and you could end up worse off, so maybe best to see if you can find a way to work together?

I struggled helping my system, so I asked help from psychiatrist, who saw my symptoms as unspecified psychosis aka F29 and got me in mental hospital for 5 weeks and 3 days.

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Mental hospital and medicine they gave is helping me stabilise my system and keep it stable, but it is my efforts that do that, medicine alone doesn't deal with stabilization directly, only help my efforts.

AW10 wrote:It seems that every time my system gets into some kind of disarray, I enter state of what psychistricts recognize as episode of unspecified psychosis. Could this be related?

I have seen some examples of similar situations quoted in the book "The haunted self" but I don't know how to make the differential diagnosis between "regular psychosis" and "intense depersonnalization and derealization and flashbacks episodes due to stress and dissociation". In the second situation, meds helping to manage the stress and anxiety helps to stabilize. Some antipsychosis meds can also do that but I'm not knowledgable enough in this area and the little I know, it sounds like a case-by-case situation.

In any case, having a more stable and safe everyday life helps to manage lots of psychological symptoms. The book "Coping with trauma related dissociation" has tons of tips on how to stabilize the everyday life but if you tends to dissociate a lot, tackle it with the help of a therapist who knows how to ground a person who starts to dissociate. You might find "Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors" helpful too. The website "DIS-SOS" has nice tips about everyday life stabilization too - and once again, if you tend to dissociate when reading about it or trying the exercises, bring the books/printed website pages to your dissociation therapist to work on it together.

for me what i think happened as i felt i lost track of reality this last year for a bit, was that i realized i wasn't doing much to help get my needs met overall, just pushing things down a lot. and eventually this happened. so what i would say to help is being really gentle and doing the best you can to meet needs you have that you could be ignoring?