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.

Infographic illustrating basic verbal terminology for dissociative identity disorder (DID) and the OSDD community.

Basic Plural Terminology Infographic

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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Support your Plural loved ones better with the FREE Allies of Plurals magazine

Scroll down to get your copy of the allies of Plurals magazine! Are you an ally, helper or relative of a System? Do you want to learn how to empower the Plural(s) in your life? Are you looking for strategies on how to better support someone with for example, dissociative identity disorder or other specified

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When our Plurality outlasts our Dissociative Identity Disorder

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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Pluralizing vs Splitting Off in DID and OSDD: An Empowering Reframe

CW mentions of splitting off, 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

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‘’We mask [our Plurality] to fit in, we take the mask off to find belonging.’’ The Stronghold System

Why we hope you DON’T fit in to this community

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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DID 101: Difference of integration, fusion, blending and merging

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

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How allies can help Plurals: Supporting those with DID/OSDD

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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Review of the study: Unusual experiences and their association with metacognition: investigating ASMR and Tulpamancy

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,

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Plurality 101: Being Plural vs Plural Experience

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 2.0 – There is no wrong way to be Plural.

Update: The Plural Spectrum Tool 2.0 is redesigned & now interactive! First built by our peer-led team of Plurals in 2021, as a printable image to color in, the tool has now been fully reimagined by us for 2026. Take the quiz, get a personalized overview, save your finished spectrum as an image, and share

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