Re:about medications

D, nothing derogatory intended; I doubt any “intellectual capacity” I may posses is any more or less than anyone else posting here--perhaps I see things and/or approach things differently. SSRIs never worked for me either; a tri-cylic worked, but didn’t like all the side effects. I seem about a quart low in dopamine, so stimulants work for me. In other threads you spoke of DID. Possibly related, here’s something I recently wrote elsewhere:

It seems that most people may be “hypnotizable” to some degree, if one views hypnosis as a process of “social interaction,” but current research and scientific views suggest there is a more impressive kind of “hypnosis,” but for only ten to fifteen percent of the population--those that are “highly hypnotizable.” It seems that only those individuals have the ability to focus and “dissociate” adequately enough, utilizing hypnosis (such hypnosis ultimately always seems to be “self-hypnosis”), to prevent pain sensation and pain affect from entering consciousness--the pain signals triggered by tissue damage still enter the brain, they just don’t result in pain affect/sensation entering consciousness. It seems that “dissociation” is the key cognitive ability (and it seems that the anterior cingulate gyrus, believed to be part of a supervisory attentional system, communicating between the prefrontal cortex and subcortical limbic structures, is very much involved).

As I see things, this ability to dissociate is, for the most part, a gift, assuming one can “control” it. (Perhaps EMDR’s concept of “reprocessing traumatic memories” that are “stuck” involves, in some cases, this dissociation process gone awry?). All the best.

Replies:

dissociation and hypnosis, by Diane, 12/26/02 Re:dissociation and hypnosis, by Anonymous, 12/27/02

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