How Red Top Wellness Center Treats Dissociative Disorders
A dissociative disorder can completely disrupt your conscious identity, memory, or perception of your environment. It may leave you feeling disconnected from your own thoughts and feelings, and requires specialized treatment to target its complex symptoms.
Red Top Wellness Center’s dissociation treatment hones in on the exact type of disorder you’re experiencing and treats it alongside any co-occurring conditions that are present. We’re committed to treating you as an individual, not your diagnosis. That means we’ll listen to your unique experiences, help you set your recovery goals, and build a care plan accordingly.
Care For Every Type of Dissociative Disorder
There are several types of dissociative disorders, and each presentation requires its own treatment approach.
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Treatment
Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, DID involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states. These personality states take control of a person’s identity at different times, causing them to behave differently and feel fragmented overall. When they try to recall moments when the personality state took over, they may experience memory gaps.
Dissociative identity disorder treatment at Red Top Wellness Center involves a thorough assessment of your personality states, how often you shift between them, and any feelings or events that precede these shifts. Each day in residential care gives you a sense of continuity, helping you minimize the prevalence of your alternate identities.
Dissociative Amnesia Treatment
Dissociative amnesia makes a person unable to recall important personal information, usually related to a traumatic event. For example, a survivor of abuse may be unable to remember anything from the period of time during which the abuse occurred. This memory loss is more than ordinary forgetfulness and can’t be attributed to physical factors, such as a head injury.
Our approach to dissociative amnesia treatment is personalized and paced according to what you’re ready for. Rather than pushing toward recovering specific memories, your therapist works with you on the distress and disruption the memory loss is causing in your daily life. If a traumatic event underlies your symptoms, we treat that trauma directly as part of your care plan.
Depersonalization Disorder Treatment
Depersonalization disorder causes persistent or recurrent episodes of feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings (in this case, known as derealization disorder). A person experiencing this condition may have an altered sense of reality or feel like they’re watching themselves from outside their own body.
This experience can be frightening, and the discomfort that comes from detachment can worsen these episodes. Red Top Wellness Center’s depersonalization disorder treatment interrupts that cycle by targeting the underlying causes of the condition and helping you move through an episode instead of waiting for it to pass.
Find Out Whether Your Insurance Covers Dissociative Disorder Treatment
Many insurance plans cover dissociative disorder treatment. Finding out what your plan covers is as simple as making a phone call! Our admissions team will collect some basic information about your plan and reach out to your insurance provider for you, so you don’t have to navigate policy information alone.
To learn about your specific coverage, call our team today. We’ll provide a detailed overview of your coverage and help you navigate available payment options.
What Makes Our Residential Program So Effective?
A higher level of care can be the best approach to dissociative disorder treatment, because it completely immerses you in the treatment environment. If you’re dealing with multiple personality states, the consistent daily structure will help you minimize shifts between them. For dissociative amnesia, daily therapeutic support can help you work through trauma at a pace that guarantees progress.
This environment, combined with support from an experienced clinical team, makes the therapeutic process more sustainable. Our program combines a variety of evidence-based therapies, proven to be effective in targeting the symptoms and underlying causes of dissociation.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Trauma-focused therapy is a category of treatment modalities, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). These methods help you work through the emotions, memories, and beliefs associated with past traumas.
Medication
While there are no specific medications for dissociative disorders, we may prescribe medications to manage associated symptoms such as depression, anxiety, or sleep disturbances. Medication depends on your specific needs, and it isn’t used in every treatment plan.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy is a form of talk therapy that focuses on the unconscious and subconscious factors contributing to dissociation. We may use this approach in your treatment plan to help you better understand your own experiences, emotions, and relational patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that encourages you to analyze the connection between your thoughts and behaviors while also practicing mindfulness techniques. This teaches you to regulate your emotions and tolerate distress more effectively.
