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When our Plurality outlasts our Dissociative Identity Disorder

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

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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‘’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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Plural resources for everymany

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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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 /

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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Image showing that personhood can only be claimed under the Plurality label and isn't allowed under the medical model as presented by the ISSTD treatment guidelines for DID and the DSM-5.

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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Nonprofit The Plural Association is now an amazing reality!

Leave a Comment / 2020, The Plural Association, Uncategorized /

Nonprofit and plural history was written on February fifth 2020 when we signed the paperwork at the notary and became a nonprofit ‘by plurals, for plurals’It’s called The Plural Association Stichting, which is the Dutch word for nonprofit. To celebrate the start of the nonprofit we launched the new site: www.thepluralassociation.org  So, please invite a

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Für dissoziativer Identitätsstörung – FREIE tolle ressource “Lerne dein System mit dieser Liste besser kennen!”

6 Comments / 2019, Articles in other languages, Uncategorized /

Find English, French, Dutch and Spanish translation by clicking this hyperlink. Erfahren Sie mehr zu diesem Thema auf dieser deutschen Website von JARVIS German: Diese Liste ist für Plurals gedacht, also Menschen, die Viele sind, und Leute mit dissoziativer Identitätsstörung, die mehr über ihr System wissen und enger mit ihm verbunden sein möchten. Sie ist

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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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World Mental Health Day – How many people have Dissociative Identity Disorder? & FREE infographics!

Leave a Comment / 2019, DID, dissociation, Resources, Uncategorized /

Today is World Mental Health Day 2019. It’s also a day that is extremely triggering to some (s)RA survivors. It’s a strange combination but also an opportunity for education, advocacy & activism. World Mental Health Day: In the past week and especially today we have seen such beautiful things online. Not only for World Mental

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