Me myself and I

So, a few minutes ago I found out that Scott has a forum account and he replies to a lot of everyone's questions and so forth. I have no problems with it and it kind of makes me feel better. Anyway, I guess I haven't really introduced myself on here properly, I am Leeyah, I have alters ranging from 3-31, I myself am only 19. Is it common for some alters to be older then the actual person themselves? Also, I have just found out that I have another younger alter, her name is Ashlie, Most of my alters are male, I have two known alters who are female, that I know of. I am happy to have met Scott, he is the only person that I know who would be able to handle any of this. Sometimes it scares me becuase I myself suffer from Schizophrenia with Paranoia, and also D.I.D and Bi-Polar with chemical imbalance Depression, I was on medication and stopped taking it last year, I was also in therapy until November of last year, I am nervous to go back to therapy, but I know that I want to, and also, I want to be on medication for my Schizophrenia and Depression and Bi-Polar, but I don't want the medications to affect my D.I.D becuase I don't want them to be locked away, making it harder for them, I know that I have said before that this is my life and that I am going to live it, I am living my life, and the only thing that I really have problems with now is sleeping all the night through. So my question is this, if I get medication for either one of the other issues in my life, will that affect my alters and/or will it make them go away. My fear is that, becuase I don't want them to be locked away.

Thanks for your thoughts.

-Leeyah Fisher

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I've been on medication (I've been misdiagnosed with EVERYTHING) and I've found that
not only will it not make the alters go away, certain ones can make things a little worse or a little quieter,
but none of the crazy amount of different meds they put me on actually WORKED, so it'll
give you an idea that meds don't normally do much for DID.

Except, for anti-anxiety meds, which quiets us all down a little bit, but we still don't go away.

Medication doesn't affect all of us. e.g. no matter how many sleeping pills we take (well, unless we OD'd) Josh will not sleep. There are some that are affected & some that aren't. Odd but interesting.

Also, there are several of us older than the body. I'm 3years older than our body.

and... hello!!!

-Ker

Thanks you guys for everyone who posted. I am just a little worried. I took some Hadol yesterday and I did not like how I was feeling on it. I am not going to take it again. For now my head is always spinning, I feel that I will never find a happy medium with everyone. *sigh* I guess that is just life then, now isn't it?