Posted by Tamara Beezley on March 19, 2009, at 20:37:40
In reply to Re: Dissociation Frustrations-Long post. » Tamara Beezley, posted by Phillipa on March 19, 2009, at 20:00:35
Phillipa,
I will turn on babblemail...it might take me a bit to figure out how to do that.
From my understanding, high anxiety can definitely exacerbate, or make worse, episodes of dissociation, but I do not believe that high anxiety itself would be considered a cause of DID or DDNOS. More than likely one would want to look at what type of issues are leading to the high anxiety and address those issues. If a person does have DID or DDNOS with high anxiety, typically addressing the cause of that anxiety (i.e. abuse history, major life issues) should, I would think, help ease the dissociative experiences a bit.
I know when my life is running a little more smoothly and there is not so much outside turmoil, my internal turmoil seems to decrease a bit and my dissociative experiences don't seem to be as severe, but I can't speak for everyone.
Talk with ya later,
~Elysium3006
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