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The Plural Warmline Survey responses:
Nearly 500 Plurals, an umbrella term indicating anyone self identifying as having or being more than one individual within a single body, responded to our survey for The Plural Warmline.
Read The Plural Warmline survey report:
The goal of this survey is to get greater insight into how people living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Other Specified Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Disorders and any and all other forms of disordered or non-disordered Plurality, use crisis services, how they are treated by crisis services, if there is enough understanding, knowledge, compassion around Plurality by crisis responders and much more.
We asked Plurals to participate in this survey on various social media websites and in The Plural Association monthly newsletter. Participation was anonymous, voluntarily and none of the participants received compensation for their participation.
If you are Plural (no matter the label you use!) and haven’t participated yet in the survey, click here to participate.
We knew it was needed to create The Plural Warmline before this survey. We knew the responses in this survey wouldn’t be pretty. But we underestimated just how dire the situation is. We have a lot more data to compare. We are aiming for at least 1000 responses before we make the final report of the survey.
However, since it is Suicide Prevention Day 2021, we have decided to release a shorter version of the survey report going over the main issues as currently reported.
We want to give a big thanks to those who participated, donated their time and emotional labor. We also want to thank the volunteers of The Plural Association Nonprofit, for without them, these surveys, the data analysis, The Plural Warmline and all our other important works, couldn’t take place. Lastly we want to thank our donors because without them, The Plural Association Nonprofit and The Plural Warmline couldn’t exist either.
Please use selfcare and take breaks while going over this whenever you need to.
Trigger warnings: Some survey questions and responses are about suicide and its prevention, moments of crisis, contact with crisis hotlines and services, involuntary psychiatric hold experiences, police and first responders experiences. Some responses contain syscourse, exclusionary expressions and/or statements that might upset or hurt some Systems.
Read The Plural Warmline survey report:
84.62% of survey participants indicated they believe The Plural Warmline is a necessary & needed service for Plurals! If you are financially able, please donate to The Plural Warmline by The Plural Association, so we can train more volunteers.
All information about The Plural Warmline can be found at thepluralwarmline.org
As always, we encourage you and your System to follow your own truth, to soul search, to find words, labels, visions, theories and communities that aren’t only within your values but also match your lived experience and/or long term goals, so that you might find belonging and don’t have to try to fit in.
Thank you for investing the time to read this article. Please, feel free to leave comments or feedback in the comment section.
The Plural Association is the first and only grassroots, volunteer and peer-led nonprofit empowering Plurals. Our works, including resources like this, are only possible because of support from Plurals and our allies.
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Together we empower more Plurals!
Disclaimer: Thank you for reading our peer article; we hope it was empowering, informative and helpful for you and your System. There are as many Plural experiences, as there are Plurals. So not all information on this website might apply to your situation or be helpful to you; please, use caution. We’re not doctors or clinicians and our nonprofit, our work, and this website in no way provide medical advice, nor does it replace therapy or medication in other ways.
About the authors
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.