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How allies can help Plurals, including 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

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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,

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Plurality vs Plural epxerience(s)

Plurality vs Plural experiences

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

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

7 Comments / 2020, Informative & educational, OSDD, Resources, Selected for the clinical community /

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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Personhood: Are you more than 1 person? You might actually be Plural! Discover the truth in this amazing article.

11 Comments / 2020, endogenic, Informative & educational, OSDD, personhood, Plurality, Uncategorized /

This article is about personhood and has the intent to explain more about the above picture and the plural umbrella. It has the intention to show that we are all more similar rather than different. The only real difference is that when you strictly follow the medical model, you can technically not claim personhood. So

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Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder – Our life before & after.

1 Comment / 2019, dissociation, Informative & educational, OSDD, Professionals, Uncategorized /

We are the Stronghold system and we are diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This is one of the hardest articles that we’ve written. It’s personal, emotional, authentic and vulnerable. It’s our adult life story and how psychology broke it with a label they refuse to serve with evidence based treatment or specialized therapy. TW for

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