Quetiapine and voices.

[Arienette]

I was told that my voices were dissociative because I wouod hear them inside my head most of the time. Sometimes they are outside but only when I am very high or very low.

I was started on Quetiapine about a month ago now and I have noticed lately that even though my mood is a bit low I have not been hearing voices, which is good and why I don't want to come off Quetiapine even though it's draining me out.

But they also said they couldn't medicate dissociative voices or difficulties, which leaves me confused.

Do some meds work for dissociation? Or are my voices maybe not dissociative?

My case is often referred to as complex but not psychotic so I don't understand really why my voices have gone now I'm on Quetiapine. X

[Cacoethes]

I think it's also used as a mood stabiliser type thing so maybe it's helping your mood which is helping the voices? !
Or because it's draining yu and you don't notice them as much?
Or maybe it's a placebo effect type thing like you seem pretty focused on what the meds are meant to do for voices so as a result it's mbaking them better?

[Arienette]

No I don't think so because I was prescribed it for mood and have been waiting for it to help with my mood. I've just noticed on a side note that I've not been hearing voices which is why I was surprised. X

[Cacoethes]

does it matter why? the fact is you've not been hearing voices and that's pretty damn awesome!!!

[chinahorse]

Second the above. Also to add I take mine for voices and transient psychosis and it has decreased my voices an awful lot.

[sherlock holmes]

I guess at the end of the day it doesn't matter so much if the voices were from dissociation or psychosis as the quetiapine has taken them away which is positive! I remember my psych said to me last appointment that you can't really determine so easily what the diagnosis is from the meds taken as they all overlap with what symptoms they help with.

[Arienette]

I suppose that is true. I didn't think about it like that because I feel so lost with myself and like I don't understand fully what is or has been happening for me, that I am a,ways trying to figure it out because I like to know. I like to know what is what within myself and around myself. Not knowing makes me anxious. I don't like to not know what is going on, or to feel out of control and for me, not knowing feels like being out of control- and to be honest that scares me. It scares me a lot.

Maybe I'm overthinking it but yes it is good to not be hearing voices. It's made thinking a lot clearer and although I'm a bit cloudy I feel less distracted and lost or overwhelmed. X

[Arienette]

I am also feeling a lot more calm too- which is another bonus. Yay!

[Epicene]

I just wanted to sympathise because I too like to know how and why things are with diagnoses. I take quetiapine and I've found it has helped with the different kind of voices I hear. But please don't worry that there is anything additionally wrong with you just because you find it helps!