Stronghold

The Stronghold System are the proud volunteer founders & CEO of The Plural Association Nonprofit. They are from the Netherlands and reside in a 30-something-year-old body, are nonbinary, parents of an amazing child & 3 cats. They got diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder over 10 years ago & also self ID as Plural.

Plurality vs Plural epxerience(s)

Plurality vs Plural experiences

A short article on Plurality VS Plural experience: Many (singlet) people have a Plural experience(s.) Those experiences are just as valid as those with a permanent, solid and/or long-term experience of Plurality! If anything it’s a spectrum! Everyone on earth, (and probably outside of Earth,) is somewhere on the spectrum, and it isn’t stagnant. Singlets […]

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Example picture of the Plural Spectrum Tool. A written definition and explanation can be found at the end of the article.

The Plural Spectrum Tool

The Plural Spectrum Tool, designed and created by and for Plurals, is an easy-to-use tool, that lets you and your System indicate your unique and individual experience(s) with Plurality! This tool can help you figure out where your System is currently at and what areas you want to work on together, to improve. This is

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A green chair with the words, the Plural Association presents the Plural Warmline.

Warmline Survey Results

The Plural Warmline Survey responses: Nearly 500 Plurals, an umbrella term indicating anyone self identifying as having or being more than one individual within a single body, responded to our survey for The Plural Warmline. Read The Plural Warmline survey report: Click here to download the free PDF version of this report. The goal of

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square with the text: 10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

In 1994, when MPD was erased and DID came in its place, the ”inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness” criteria was added to the DSM-4. Later in 2013, this was changed to ”recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information and/or traumatic

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We are Plural. No harm is done by our existance, but much harm is done by denying it.

Plurals, learn more about mixed origin Systems & Headmates!

Some people seem to think that either all mixed origins have DID/OSDD and another forms of Plurality, or the opposite, that mixed origins Systems are Plural but don’t have or can’t have DID/OSDD. Both can be true and personally we think it is a lot more fluid as one might imagine, especially if we look at the…

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”How do we set rules for our Headmates and System?”

In ”Ask Stronghold” the Stronghold System shares their own answers to frequently asked questions, from a peer perspective. Todays question is ”How do we set rules for our Headmates and System?” This is such a great question! In our System we have some folks who got really upset by the word rules, so we avoid

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Узнайте своих альтеров поближе с этим списком вопросов! – Замечательные бесплатные материалы!

Thank you Anna from the Solipschism System for translating this into Russian! Этот список вопросов для людей определяющих себя как множественная личность или имеющих диссоциативное расстройство личности, которые хотят узнать поближе своих альтеров и настроить с ними внутреннюю коммуникацию. Его цель помочь вам улучшить взаимопонимание, принятие, и всячески настроить обоюдное общение и сотрудничество в вашей

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Image of an umbrella that says OSDD and the text: All about Other Specified Dissociative Disorder. An explanation about OSDD-1A & OSDD-1B

All about Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) – an explanation about OSDD-1A & OSDD-1B

Intro Dear community, today we are proud to present this work that The Plural Association team in collaboration with the clinical and the Plural community worked very hard on. Please know this article was not researched overnight, nor was it written overnight. We put due diligence into researching this so as to best present accurate

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