I feel like number names shouldn’t be a way to basically display ur trauma. I understand they’re only for RAMCOA victims but it’s honestly just dangerous imo

honestly we don't think they're only for RAMCOA victims, singlets use number names all the time, why is it different if an alter uses it? As long as they're not mocking the name I think it's fine. And I agree, having number names be RAMCOA only is very dangerous, it reveals their trauma to people, which can expose them to those who wish to take advantage of them

absolutely anti-endo bc trauma is required, but some of you forget about healthy/functional multiplicity and the fact that it proves there are non-disordered systems.

they're not non disordered.. they still have the disorder they're just better at managing it. (At least that's what I've heard, since DID/OSDD is a life long disorder after it has been developed). Yes they've healed, but they still have the disorder, they just no longer have all the symptoms / their symptoms are more managed. This is like saying someone who has gone through final fusion isn't a system, I guess they technically aren't anymore, but they still have DID/OSDD and still have the ability to split at any point if their brain feels necessary..

Also when people refer to "non disordered systems" they're talking about endos who claim to not have DID/OSDD yet somehow are still a system, not healed systems. I really don't understand the point you are trying to make here

Like correct me if I'm wrong, but surely even if you've healed you still have the disorder???

rlly wish the body would change to match whoever fronts :(( ❦

Does anyone else have bad peoples in their systems? Like really bad and violent people? Jus wondering :3

— Lizzy

Okay, breaking out of the crippleposting to do a Mental Illness Post rq:

On top of depression and anxiety, I have BPD, CPTSD, OSDD-1b, and Bipolar II. I experience delusions, psychosis, and severe dissociation. I am a *severely* mentally ill person. Because of all of this, I require several mood stabilizers and an antipsychotic to keep myself grounded to reality, let alone functional.

I swear to GOD, if one more person with depression looks at me and says some shit like "yeah, I'm sure medication would help me, I just don't want to be dependent on it." I'm going to fucking scream. The sheer ableism in y'all's attitudes towards people who can't just opt out of medication and who ARE dependent on it is fucking crazy. The way they hit the word "dependent" in that sentence always holds so much judgment and distain, like they don't even consider that some of us don't have the luxury of choice. Being dependent on medication has literally no moral weight, and for me it's that or dead. So.

***and before someone goes off on me, this is NOT about people who can't afford medication or who medication doesn't work for, and I am not saying that depression can't be debilitating. I am only referring to exactly the situation I described, so don't try and gotcha me***

When stressful situation ends and alters are leaving crowded front like this

Can you make a system role for an alter that helps us deal with pain? Sometimes this is by fronting but also sometimes just by being there and comforting us

Pain calmer

Alters of a system who's role is to front during times of pain, this can be physical and emotional

Flag by Saturn, requested by asker

[ENDOS DNI]

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DNI if you call non-programmed systems "organic"

It implies that programming isn't natural and the trauma response to it is artificial

You're othering us as if we aren't "natural"

I dont care if you're programmed and use this or if you're not programmed and use this, get the fuck away from our page

this term was created by an anti endo, and would prefer that NON-traumagenic systems and their supporters do not interact or use this term.

SIBTECTOR / SIBSHIELD

[pt. sibtector / sibshield. end pt]

an alter whose role is to protect or take care of the body's younger family, such as siblings or cousins!

term and flag both coined by me

I love how botw / totk and wind waker both use cell shading, it's so cool and it shows how versatile it can be. Wind waker is more cartoony with less details and bigger areas of a single color for the shading, but in botw / totk it's a lot more detailed. You can really see it in link's hair (left), it's just so interesting to me i love it sm :3

I also love how in ww they put Link's facial features over his hair, ww link is the most expressive one we've gotten so far and it really makes it more noticeable and charming

I love loz :3

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i dont like people calling insys romantic relationships "self love"

the two fictives making out behind me in headspace are not the same person man. sorry.

yeah,, sometimes we do it to ourselves as a joke but we don't like when other people do it to us, especially without asking. Like we're very different people, do not assume we're the same person

abt discussion "is functional multiplicity a way of being non-disordered system?" if no one minds, am gonna add my opinion too.

functional multiplicity isn't non-disordered way of being system. it's like remission / recovery.

when you have some chronic condition, you can manage it and feel fine. you can show fewer symptoms or don't show them at all. but you still have this condition.

if you are on meds for arthritis and don't have active inflammation now, you still have arthritis. you may still have some impairment of damage that was already made. it may flare up. your meds may stop working or start working worse. and your symptoms will return.

also, if nothing of above happens, your life, needs, and experience are not the same as life, needs, and experience of people without arthritis. you need your meds to feel good. you need to go to appointments. you need to be careful with some things. you have different risks and so on.

and also. you have experience. you know how it feels. you know what it is. your life was changed by having arthritis, and you don't lose this experience when your symptoms leave.

so same with osddid. if you reached functional multiplicity. you still have some symptoms (having alters is a symptom). you still may split more alters, get more amnesia, get more other dissociative symptoms. and you still have experience. very personal-forming experience, don't know how to word it better. your brain doesn't work like singlets brains. your alters (in functional multiplicity case) aren't like singlets parts of personality. you can't close this door and unteach your brain to dissociate, split, create amnesia barriers. you also can't erase trauma from your brain development. (early life trauma makes HUGE influence on brain development, and even not only brain but the rest of the body too).

osddid is a super complex experience. it's early trauma. it's very specific experience of not being singlet, of not having singlets personality. it's alters (if we talk abt systems). it's amnesia (not always). it's dissociative symptoms. it's cptsd. and more and more and more.

it's super complex, super influencing. endos often see osddid like "cool dudes in your head and nothing more", and it's offensive exactly because of these reasons. because osddid is WAY more. and functional multiplicity is not "cool dudes in your head and nothing more" too. it's sad, but there's no such thing as "cool dudes in your head and nothing more".

that's why people don't lose osddid diagnosis when reach functional multiplicity.

sorry for being long, boring, and complicated.

nod, nod. That's what I thought, I'm glad to have others agree. Even once you've healed and reached functional multiplicity you still have alters, which are a symptom, and probably a few other symptoms too, which means you have the disorder. Even with final fusion, you're still disordered because your brain can always split again, since splitting is a coping mechanism that cannot be unlearned

not wanting to achieve final fusion is ok,, it’s your disorder so you decide whats best for you ❦

the littles are once again requesting ice cream

Singlets think that being a system means you “have friends in your head!!”

WRONG!!

Being a system means you have five random people sitting in front and driving you insane by talking about “Philosophy Cunt” when you know they really mean Philomena Cunk

Really feeling the impostor syndrome rn. I keep seeing stuff being like "If you think you're a system but don't have x, y and z. You're not a system!" And like sometimes I don't have those things. But the thing is if I'm not a system then what am I? Like please tell me I'd love to know. For the most part I feel like one person, except for when I don't. I say I feel like just me and then I'm talking to someone in my own head with their own name and face and feelings. I tell myself I don't have osdd and then something stressful happens once in a while and I'm desperately trying to keep someone else from fronting bc I don't think I have osdd. And when I think too much about being a system or think about headmates I start to zone out and feel light headed, and when I "switch" I feel it in my body, coming up from my chest and into my head. It feels different depending on who too. Steven says he always feels like he's gonna throw up a bit when he comes up. We don't have amnesia so it's hard to tell. If we had an it would be a lot easier to know what's wrong but we don't.

I think sometimes it's just that I don’t want it. I don't wanna have this thing. Especially since it seems like no one else really understands how it feels for me. I feel lost and I don't know what my deal is.

So please, dear people on the internet who decide what is or isn't DID. Please tell me what I have if not that.

- kinda everyone