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When our Plurality outlasts our Dissociative Identity Disorder

Leave a Comment / 2022, Informative & educational, Plurality, Uncategorized / Stronghold

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

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

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

1 Comment / 2021, Informative & educational, Uncategorized / Stronghold

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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The difference between integration (final) fusion unification blending merging

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

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

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 to Support the Plurals in Your Life: A resource for Dissociative Identity Disorder, OSDD, and every form of Plurality

2 Comments / 2021, allies, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Informative & educational, OSDD, Resources, Selected for the clinical community / Stronghold

made for Singlets, by Plurals How to Be a Better Ally to Plurals If you are here, someone you care about is Plural, or might be, and you want to do right by them. That care is the hard part, and you already have it. The rest is learning, and that is what this is

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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 / Stronghold

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 / Stronghold

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 / Stronghold

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!

Leave a Comment / 2021, endogenic, Informative & educational, Plurality, Uncategorized / Stronghold

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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guidelines for alters

Leave a Comment / 2021, Ask Stronghold, faq, Informative & educational, Selected for the clinical community / Stronghold

In ”Ask Stronghold” the Stronghold System, founders of The Plural Association Nonprofit and this Power to the Plurals website – shares their own answers to frequently asked questions, from a peer perspective. Todays question is ”How do we set guidelines for Alters in our System?” Setting guidelines for your System is one of the most

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