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When our Plurality outlasts our Dissociative Identity Disorder

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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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Pluralizing vs Splitting in DID and OSDD: Our Opinion

1 Comment / 2022, Ask Stronghold, Informative & educational, Plurality, Selected for the clinical community /

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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‘’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

1 Comment / 2021, Informative & educational, Uncategorized /

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

8 Comments / 2021, Informative & educational, Integration, Professionals, Selected for the clinical community /

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

2 Comments / 2021, allies, DID, Informative & educational, OSDD, Resources, Selected for the clinical community /

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

1 Comment / 2021, Informative & educational, Uncategorized /

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

Leave a Comment / 2021, faq, Informative & educational, Plurality, Professionals /

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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The Plural Spectrum Tool: There is no wrong way to be Plural.

4 Comments / 2021, OSDD, Plurality, Resources, Selected for the clinical community, 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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10 reasons why amnesia shouldn’t be a diagnostic criterion for DID in the DSM

2 Comments / 2021, Informative & educational, Professionals /

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!

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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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