DID/mpd and seizures

I also suffer from this issue. I don't know if it helps at all but I have heard from my therapist that they are currently researching this issue and there was a correlation, but it is being debated due to the fact that seizures cause hallucinations, etc. I currently have 8 different personalities. I suffered constant sexual abuse since I was a child, and I even dealt with a recent rape. There was a correlation with incestual rape to MPD/DID and Epilepsy as well. So I do believe strongly that they are related in some way or another.

Breezie, Yes there is a correlation. In fact, DID is the only Axis I diagnosis in the DSM IV-tr that has a differentials listed with the diagnostic criteria. One of them states that the symptoms must not be entirely explainable by temporal lobe epilepsy. I do not have a controlled, double-blind study to back this up, but I do not believe that it is possible to have DID without having serious temporal lobe issues. I don't know what happened to them, but there used to be a lot of papers showing epileptiform activity in subjects experiencing dissociative episodes. The ISSD, the International Society for the Study of Dissociation used to have a great data base of papers on the subject on line. Unfortunately, they became the ISSTD and took the data base off line. They are now a "professional" organization of no help to anyone but themselves. Such is life. It is known that AEDs that are useful for treating temporal lobe epilepsy are useful for treating DID/MPD and PTSD with dissociative symptoms. The only good new research I've seen being done these days on PTSD and dissociation is being done by the VA. Due to politics, they are careful to say that the PTSD experienced by soldiers is "different." That's a bunch of cr*p. It's the same. The whole thing is a power grab by psychiatrists who want to be able to do whatever they want to patients without fear of malpractice suits. Please read my story. It's pretty bad. I've had the "best" treatment from the "best" providers and after they effed me up they shoved me in a State bin with a change in medical orders that caused me to go into acute benzo withdrawal and suffer so many seizures that I had to teach myself how to write again. That's left temporal lobe seizures. Exactly what someone with temporal lobe issues needs. More temporal lobe seizures. Most psych meds cause seizures. If you look at the side effects of the antipsychotics especially, the symptoms they cause are remarkably similar to the symptoms of various seizure types. They are also known to cause seizures. I have been permanently damaged by the administration of such medications when they were not needed because I am not and never have been psychotic and I have a history of seizures dating since infancy. I noticed that the DID/MPD PTSD thing came up in another forum as well. I tried to reply, but that forum upset me too much. I believe that if my epilepsy had been diagnosed and treated when I was a child, I never would have suffered the severe symptoms that I have had to endure. Most, but not all of my trauma was from abuse. Part of the abuse involved my mother's non reporting of my seizures to my doctors and forcing pills down my throat that made me seize. She also left me lying on the living room sofa when I was about four years old with a high fever having seizure after seizure. I was delirious. It was such a bizarre and terrifying experience that I remember every moment while I was conscious. I know I was drifting in and out of consciousness because the radio was on and it was all disconnected. Unfortunately, that wasn't the last time I was left to seize with a fever. The last time was in Rockland Psychiatric Center in New York State where I was thrown onto my bed like a sack of potatoes to die by aspirating my own vomit or from the fever or 107F. I managed to survive because even though I was almost completely parlysed from the fever, I managed to slide off the bed onto the cold floor lying on my side. I remember starting to salivate very heavily and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a pool of urine and vomit. That's what psychiatrists do to epileptic patients. My psychiarist actually gave me chorpromazine "for your migraines." Chorpromazine causes migraines and seizures. I was left lying on the floor in the hallway in partial status as the nurses told the other patients to "just step over her." It was hellishly awful. The reason the relationship is being debated is because psychiatrists want to be able to continue abusing patients with impunity. It is a disgraceful situation. Not every "hallucination" is caused by psychosis. I'm not even certain there is such a thing as psychosis. That's a term back from the days before anyone knew how the brain worked. Occipital lobe seizures case vivid hallucinations. Right temporal lobe seizures can make one hear music. Do you want to call these hallucinations? I don't care what you call them as long as it's not psychosis. The medications used to treat psychosis cause seizures and cause these symptoms. Antipsychotics cause psychosis. Sorry for the rant, but this is obiously a touchy subject for me. I am sick, injured, and homeless from the abuse I suffered that was called "treatment." It was mistreatment and abuse and if I can survive long enough I intend to seek legal remedies. Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na. Devorah Zealot Soodak <a href="http://psychout.typepad.com/">http://psychout.typepad.com/</a> the zealot needs help! P.S. Please read my <a href="http://psychout.typepad.com/">blog</a>. Thanks. P.P.S. <a href="http://psychout.typepad.com/blog/2010/11/epilepsy-carpe-diem-how-can-a-homeless-zealot-make-a-life_google-health_mayo-clinic_medline-plus_webmd.html">Please click here to read my latest post.</a>

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