Maybe you are wondering am I plural? Is what I experience part of the Plural umbrella? Or maybe you already know for sure, but you have no idea where to start. This website contains nearly 70 articles by now, so we understand it might be overwhelming or confusing on what to read, watch or do […]
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Someone asked me to write something about persecutors and protectors. I’m sure we ourselves have participated in the ‘persecutors are misguided protectors’ point of view in the past, but we don’t look at it like that anymore. Back in 2017, Lisa recorded a video about how she was a persecutor but now feels like she
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Image caption: Basic Plural Terminology. For new Systems & their friends. Power to the Plurals. 1: Headmates / Alters / Parts / People. These are some of the words used to describe the people in a System. You can use any words that you and your System are most comfortable with. 2: System / collective / team /
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and/or Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) is a disordered experience of Plurality, most often associated with early childhood trauma. Not all DID/OSDD Systems identify with the umbrella Plural label and not all Plurals identify with the clinical terminology like DID/OSDD. DID/OSDD looks different for everyone, not two Systems are alike and there
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CW mentions of origin ideas and theories. Mentions trauma, mentions of people making other people Plural on purpose, mentions of self hypnosis, no details. Big shout-out to all the community members who gave us the confidence to post this one publicly. It’s taken us many years to be able to put this in words and
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Why we hope you DON’T fit in to this community Author: Stronghold System Proof reader: Harmony “When it is safe to show all of you& freely, it is more healing than being liked by people who have the intent to misunderstand.” – Stronghold. We desire to continually cultivate a community (and a society at large,
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Author: Stronghold SystemProofreader and editor: The Eki System (Thank you Eki!) Today we wanted to share with you all some definitions of different terminology that our community often uses interchangeably. A summary can be found at the end of the article. The definitions used in this article come from both the ISSTD treatment guidelines for
Allies can best help Plural people by listening and asking appropriate questions to individuals in systems if and when they present themselves. Everyone is different and with that comes different desires and needs, that should be taken into account. Don’t assume, ask & believe!Please believe your Plural loved ones. Unless what they are saying is truly harmful,
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A new research paper was published and today we wanted to review this study and go over some key highlights of this very specific, and important research. It sheds a fascinating light on this specific Plural experience, and it shows that those with a disordered, pathological experience of Plurality can indeed learn from Parogenic Systems and,
