Bridgehouse Clan

plural clan. Previously known as Mind Ravens.

[bridgehouse-clan]

Stimbeans

For a couple of months we've been making keychains which we call Stimbeans. They don't necessarily have to be a keychain. But they can be just to make it easier not to lose them.

The stimbeans are a help tool. Originally made for (fellow) Autists to help recover from sensory overload or to 'block out' sensory input during social events.

But it turns out to also help ADHDers with focussing during schooldays/lessons and even keep focussed for exams. And for people with anxiety to calm down when struggling with anxiety. And for any regular person to just have something in their hand while going on a walk or not click that pen a thousand times during a meeting.

Lots of the Stimbeans have now been sold at our (Autism) coach office and at a monthly game evening we go for people with sensory issues.

we believe it might be time that we share these further with the world (although we can only ship within Europe), and since Romano's marketing is terrible we are heading into our Plural tumblr blog.

we sell them purely for material costs (and shipping costs), so we don't earn from it. we think tools that can help others should be free or material costs only, so it is accessible to (almost) everyone.

Please consider reblogging [🔄] this to have them spread widely and reaches the people who need them.

How to buy? You can choose between the following options

Link to the Stimbeans on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/d2bd7891b8

Send an Email to [email protected]

Send a DM

Price:

€2 per Stimbean

Shipping costs vary per country within the EU, The price is between €4 and €14

other information:

Size approximately around 2 by 4cm

100% cotton yarn (allergy friendly)

Current colours available: white, creme, grey, black, orange, brown, green & soft green, yellow, purple, soft pink (List might increase or schrink, please ask if you request a specific colour).

Regards,

Ro

Please 🔁 for spreading a (mental/medical) handmade helptool

[royal-napoleon]

Looking for testers Plural and Mood tracker app

Working on an app for the plural community with moodtracking functions as well.

For finding bugs and general feedback, need more testers.

Join our discord server for the latest version of the app: Discord Server link

The app doesn't has a name yet, neither a picture. This is a series of the first test rounds.

screenshots version V001.5b:

This app is full of bugs, they will get fixed but without testers no app progress. Join the testteam!

[royal-napoleon]

New version isn't as bugging anymore.

Join the discord server for app releases,

there is now Pluralkit and Simply Plural import in the app

[royal-napoleon]

Featurelist since V001.6a

Frontpage

Show fronting members

Showing members and groups

Profiles

Profile picture

personal colour (circle right of the name)

Name

Showing and toggling on/off custom fields (set custom fields in the settingspage)

Using markdown layout in custom fields (example: **bold** _italic_)

Note viewing: View notes which has been tagged with this member (also add new notes)

Mood tracks view: View moodtracks which have been tagged with this member + Mood stats

Edit profile

Check personal to do lists + editing them

Menu

Add members

Add groups (and supgroups)

All notes

All to do lists

View fronting statistics

Moodtracking

View mood statistics

Settings

Settings

Toggle language between Dutch and English

Change entire colour scheme layout of the app

Change colours for moodtracking

Add custom fields + Note a basic template that shows on all profiles which can be edited per member on there page

Export and Import app data

Import Pluralkit, Simply Plural, Daylio

Add members in bulk to groups

Added an option to choose opening page of the app

PDF export for printing

Notes

View all notes

Add notes: Title, link multiple members, write your note

Edit notes

To Do Lists

Make to do lists

Link (big lists and smaller tasks) to members

Tap to check them off, different options: ✅➡️⬅️⏳❌

Set deadlines

Plural statistics

Choose period (default 30 days)

Total fronting time

Co-fronting

(mini-)visual timeline *

Switch frequency per member

Switch frequency per hour

Visual Timeline *

Shows duration and timeperiod of members who've been fronting

Zoom function

You can look into the past as much as you want (goodluck scrolling tho if it's a long time ago)

tap to see date and time (also option to edit)

Front Timeline *

Shows entire front history

You can edit by tapping

Mood tracker

tap basic/global feeling

Link members

Add groups and activities

Hold activities long pressed opens an option to edit or delete them

Write notes

Save button

view mood timeline

Delete past entries

Mood statistics

Mood history

Mood distrubution

Mood activities

Press any of the small bolls and they'll popup with data

[royal-napoleon]

New in the app (V001,6f) :

Send members a message and they get notificated when they enter front.

Activate and deactivate modules in the app. Want to track front but no moods? Just turn it off !

Join the discord server and download the app

Some highlights:

[royal-napoleon]

Looking for testers Plural and Mood tracker app

Working on an app for the plural community with moodtracking functions as well.

For finding bugs and general feedback, need more testers.

Join our discord server for the latest version of the app: Discord Server link

The app doesn't has a name yet, neither a picture. This is a series of the first test rounds.

screenshots version V001.5b:

This app is full of bugs, they will get fixed but without testers no app progress. Join the testteam!

[royal-napoleon]

New version isn't as bugging anymore.

Join the discord server for app releases,

there is now Pluralkit and Simply Plural import in the app

[royal-napoleon]

Featurelist since V001.6a

Frontpage

Show fronting members

Showing members and groups

Profiles

Profile picture

personal colour (circle right of the name)

Name

Showing and toggling on/off custom fields (set custom fields in the settingspage)

Using markdown layout in custom fields (example: **bold** _italic_)

Note viewing: View notes which has been tagged with this member (also add new notes)

Mood tracks view: View moodtracks which have been tagged with this member + Mood stats

Edit profile

Check personal to do lists + editing them

Menu

Add members

Add groups (and supgroups)

All notes

All to do lists

View fronting statistics

Moodtracking

View mood statistics

Settings

Settings

Toggle language between Dutch and English

Change entire colour scheme layout of the app

Change colours for moodtracking

Add custom fields + Note a basic template that shows on all profiles which can be edited per member on there page

Export and Import app data

Import Pluralkit, Simply Plural, Daylio

Add members in bulk to groups

Added an option to choose opening page of the app

PDF export for printing

Notes

View all notes

Add notes: Title, link multiple members, write your note

Edit notes

To Do Lists

Make to do lists

Link (big lists and smaller tasks) to members

Tap to check them off, different options: ✅➡️⬅️⏳❌

Set deadlines

Plural statistics

Choose period (default 30 days)

Total fronting time

Co-fronting

(mini-)visual timeline *

Switch frequency per member

Switch frequency per hour

Visual Timeline *

Shows duration and timeperiod of members who've been fronting

Zoom function

You can look into the past as much as you want (goodluck scrolling tho if it's a long time ago)

tap to see date and time (also option to edit)

Front Timeline *

Shows entire front history

You can edit by tapping

Mood tracker

tap basic/global feeling

Link members

Add groups and activities

Hold activities long pressed opens an option to edit or delete them

Write notes

Save button

view mood timeline

Delete past entries

Mood statistics

Mood history

Mood distrubution

Mood activities

Press any of the small bolls and they'll popup with data

[royal-napoleon]

Looking for testers Plural and Mood tracker app

Working on an app for the plural community with moodtracking functions as well.

For finding bugs and general feedback, need more testers.

Join our discord server for the latest version of the app: Discord Server link

The app doesn't has a name yet, neither a picture. This is a series of the first test rounds.

screenshots version V001.5b:

This app is full of bugs, they will get fixed but without testers no app progress. Join the testteam!

[bridgehouse-clan]

How to make dividers in HiveMind app

I guess most of us know how annoying it is when you import the sys from Simplyplural and all your groups aren't 'grouping'

I found a temporary solution but it takes a lot of work.

(Make a backup file first, just to be sure)

Step 1: Import from symply plural

Step 2: Set the visibility on "name"

Step 3: Edit the "names" in a form of number series so they can technically match your SP order, and 'members' as dividers.

HiveMind will show the displayname and not the number

.

Because you've set the visibility on displaynames, you can still keep your 'groups' that way without seeing numbers.

Yes, I was still working on it, so all the people without a banner are still numbered because I haven't filled in the 'displayname' field yet, but the ones with a banner you don't see the number of the correct order settled.

I know it isn't the most practical, but at least it is a workaround.

P.S. Don't forget to make a backup-file!

Just tagging: @hivemind-app Maybe they are interested in seeing this workaround?

[hivemind-app]

HiveMind App

HiveMind is a brand new and still in development app for plurals with multiple functions and plans on its way!

This blog is NOT owned by the developer of the app, I'm a mod/delegate that's running the blog on the Dev's behalf with their permission

What's our purpose?

HiveMind's purpose is to provide the plural community a safe, private, offline-first priority, and properly designed app to track fronting, record their alters/members/headmates, and understand their system fully on their own, without any judgment or discrimination

Downloading

It's important to note that this app is still developing, has its bugs, and for money reasons it's not possible to download it from the Play Store (yet), so it has to be downloaded by apk or .exe as it's also available for PC

Check the Hivemind carrd for more information about the app and the development behind it

For the download you'll need to go to the official itch.io page

Important information

If you want to know what HiveMind currently offers look at the functions post

If you have a question about the app make sure to check the FAQ post before hand

Please check the tag system post to find specific information you could be looking for regarding the app

Other official social media: Reddit

Post regarding support

Any questions, comments, suggestions, bug reports, feedback or anything you want to share, the inbox is totally open

Thanks for supporting HiveMind!

[sockprince]

Does.... someone have a good SP alternative (not octocon..) We want one with switch notifications...

[orchardsys]

Hey, Is it okay if I hear more on how you don't experience the amnesia portion of being plural? I've related to all of the criteria besides that one and I have nwver met anyone else who did too

I will preface this by saying I do not know everything and I am just explaining my personal experiences!

I’m “Sky” and I’ll explain how we lack amnesiac barriers. We are not diagnosed with DID, and this is just how we experience it ourselves. Putting it short, MOST of the time when we front, we know what happened before the front because we were half present. It’s how we are constantly! I drew this real quick to try and explain how it feels..

This is how I’ve seen others describe amnesia barriers when dealing with plurality. I cannot explain it perfectly myself because.i don’t experience this….but it’s kinda like this! You don’t have a clear memory of what other alters are up to (that’s just the basic of it, a lot can be different for different systems)

For us, it’s like this instead.. Imagine fronting as being the person with the controller. Everyone else sits by and watches, often giving their own thoughts. Sometimes we don’t give our thoughts, but still watch!

1. Fronting is having control of the body, like controlling a player on a video game. Imagine the fronter being closer to the game screen, so our thoughts feel “louder” than the others as well.

2. Even when not fronting, most of us chat in the back to give our piece… we’re usually prettyyy aware of what’s happening but sometimes when front, there’s a moment where we feel like “oh wait I wasn’t paying THAT much attention what’s going on??” It’s like being given the be controller randomly after thinking “wait I was just here to watch!!”

3.Usually, since we’re always usually “present” one way or another, there are times we don’t even speak! We just sit and observe the game

For some people, there are other differences. Sometimes, alters/other parts aren’t even in the same room, so they don’t know what’s happening in the game. Then they get forced to have the controller and play the game, without knowing the context of what to do on that level. Sometimes two or more players can have a controller as well!!

When not front, things can feel blurred, and it can feel like even though you’re “there,” you’re just an observer. Then things suddenly clear up, and you feel like you again. (This is how it is for us!!)

While we don’t have memory gaps, we have some emotional amnesia.. some parts feel more strongly about past events while others feel just about nothing, but the memory stays about the same

We do think there are other memory issues with us but that’s.mostly unrelated and more of a personal discovery we gotta go through…..

Of course, this is just how I+ experience it!! If you have a different experience or analogy I’d love to hear it, it could also be beneficial to anyone learning about plurality!

ALSOO another creator used the video game analogy in one of their posts…if anyone knows what I’m taking about please let me know I’d like to credit them😭

[gor3sigil]

DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT RARE DID IS NOT-

[helpmepleaseicantfindaname]

DID is (approximately) as common as autism; 1-2% of the human population have it. That means every 100 people you meet, one or two of them are likely to be autistic, and one or two of them will likely have DID. This means that, statistically, you will meet up to 100 systems across your life (and that’s only the ones from DID!) And that’s just based off the average number of people you meet (10000); you will likely see significantly more!

DID is not rare, and even if you don’t have it, someone you know likely does.

They may even have an autistic friend that you can meet.

[emporiumofwonder]

It's such a good reminder that DID is way more common then people think. That learning about it is good because like people with other conditions it's good to be prepared to be gentle with people from all walks of life.

[gor3sigil]

I'll add a few things I know from therapy and reading. Just a heads up, I talk only about traumagenic dissociative disorders because that's what I know, that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge the existence of other forms of plurality and system origins, I'm just not able to talk about it.

According to my psychiatrist, who is not specialized in DID but in trauma disorders, DID/OSDD/pDID and other forms of traumagenic dissociative disorders are present in between 1 to 2% of the population.

It doesn't need to stem from "extreme" trauma but from repeated trauma mostly, no matter the severity of it. Things as "mundane" as loneliness or emotional neglect can cause it because it is most and foremost a coping mechanism. If you are more enclined to dissociate to cope, you are more enclined to develop DID even from "mild" experiences. As shown in the book "The Body Keeps The Score" about PTSD, two people can experience the exact same traumatic event and one is going to dissociate to cope, while the other will not.

That's why some people will go through extreme trauma and not develop any dissociative disorders, while some others will experience milder experiences and develop DID/OSDD. It's kind of a matter of how your brain responds to things more than the events itselves.

Still, according to my psychiatrist, the issue with DID/OSDD, etc, is that it is WILDLY underdiagnosed. People love to say that "everybody has DID," but in fact, psychiatrists are absolutely not trained to diagnose these disorders. My therapist told me that she had to educate herself and that she wouldn't have even thought of doing it if she wasn't specialized in trauma disorders. They don't have any classes about it in school, or barely so, and most of them don't have any tools to diagnose nor treat these disorders. So, the people who are the most likely to actually get diagnosed are the most severe cases who are going inpatient or are hospitalised because they can't function as they are.

That doesn't mean that a system that is functional is less valid than another that has to be in and out of treatment. It just means, like any other illness/disease, that severity is on a scale, dissociative disorders and trauma disorders are a spectrum, and it fluctuates.

We knew we were a system years even before we stumbled upon the online DID/OSDD community. Some other systems are not aware they are one until they get a diagnosis. It just depends. At the end of the day, all you really have to think about is being able to live your everyday life without it being a constant struggle. That's what matters. But saying that DID is an "extremely rare disorder" caused only by "absolutely horrific extreme unfathomable traumas" is false and contributes to the underdiagnosis and, therefore, lack of care that people with these disorders face.

[conarcoin]

The lifetime prevalence of OCD is 2.3%, and you never see people call OCD "extremely rare" and saying it's statistically unlikely for someone to have it.

But because dissociative disorders are so much more mystified and stigmatized, a similar rate for them is apparently "extremely rare".

It's not even like actual information on it from professionals and researchers is particularly difficult to find, either. This article is literally the first Google result for "is DID rare" (and the Google overview that pops up BEFORE it even staight up says "no, it's not"...)

By the way, DID is more common than schizophrenia (0.75%), and yet you're more likely to be questioned for claiming to have DID than you are for claiming to have schizophrenia.

[naturalbornlosers]

With the news of Google Docs being scraped to train AI, may i introduce you all to my favorite writing program ever, yWriter?

It’s completely free, developed by a writer, and it’s layout is so intuitive and easy to learn. I’ve been using it for years. It’s out on most computer OS and available for Android/iOS/Kindle as well! It’s extremely organized, and even if you dont use half the features in it, they’re still useful and good to have around. I don’t think there’s a way to share documents straight from the program unfortunately, but you can export works easily and send those files to whomever you need to!

Please spread this around if you want!

[bridgehouse-clan]

I also recommend Ywriter for plural systems. To keep track of their Members, Locations, important events (you can even date and link them to locations & members) and other things.

The windows computer application works very well. (I don't have experience with the others yet).

- Romano

[bridgehouse-clan]

Hi sorry I saw that you used daylio and I've been wanting to use it to track my system and mental health stuff but I'm not sure how to go about it and I was wondering if you'd be willing to share your daylio groups and activities so I could have an idea of how to go about it. If that's comfortable with you

Apologies for the very late reply ...

We didn't receive a notification, I only saw it due logging in on the computer device...

Apologies for the Dutch language.

But we keep the basic 5 "emotions" but have a separate category for the actual emotions, because you can feel multiple things, and sometimes can "enthousiasm" either feel Perfect or Good, it isn't always one thing or another.

This is just an example. I love in the monthly stats you can select which activity (or which headmate ;) ) was fronting and filling in moods. You don't always have to do it, or fill always every category in. Just sign in what applies.

You can even in the search function check back on a headmate

And here are the category thingies you were actually asking for:

I hope this works, feel free to enter our DMs if you have further questions

Kind regards,

Romano

[bdifh-main]

We aren't publicly plural in the lands of front. So Friday a dear colleague of us came to me/us and asked "[name body] are you okay? The last few weeks you seem different..."

I ended up rambling about our new house since we are sort of moving out, but in reality there are just different fronters from the 'usual social butterfly'-fronter fronting... which is not the best sign, our social butterfly is the best fronter to have at front.

It doesn't happen often when we are called out, but it is oddly reassuring when we are because at least it means this isn't an imagination, but it is also something people notice something is different.

[necrosystem]

I want to try and get a sense of exactly what the bodily age ranges systems are here.

If you don't want to answer then keep scrolling.

Reblog for larger sample size please.

What's your body age?

Minor

18-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

46-50

50+

Voting ended onNov 7, 2024

[unfamiliar-ghostly-system]

Our system is made up almost entirely of guys. Wanted to see if other systems had. A similar experience.

is your system heavily one gender?

Yes.

No.

About equal.

A secret fourth option.

Voting ended onOct 19, 2024

[bridgehouse-clan]

Odd question...

Do your fellow headmates need to poop/pee/toiletvisit in headspace?

Yes all

Yes madority

Yes/No kind of random

No majority

No all

Never actually paid attention to this

Voting ended onSep 18, 2024

[lacunarstructure]

Trying to join pro-endo servers while not being in a single one is....hard

[bridgehouse-clan]

Greetenings fellow plural clans,

I was wondering for those who use Twinote.

How do you manage not to forget the application?

The last entry our side did was from May last year... (till I spammed it today). I fear snowflaking its existence... I believe there is much more potential to this application than that we use it for.

Does anyone have suggestions on how not to forget the application, as well to bring it to it's full potential?

Thank you, with care,

Ro

P.S. here is a poll...

Twinote

We use Twinote and don't forget about using it

We use Twinote but do forget about using it

We don't use Twinote

What is Twinote?

Voting ended onMar 25, 2024