The Star System @did-star-system - Tumblr Blog

been blurry for almost an entire day, finally i know who the fuck i am. too bad its me - mason

#i'm sad #sad thoughts #did #did system #dissociative identity disorder #primary protector #protector #gatekeeper #unfit for my job honestly

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schizophrenicfordpinesmoved

Having a fictive of a popular character is so funny because you see posts like “imagine [person] waking up in the morning with bed head” like bitch i already do that he eats my ice cream and lies to my mother for me

wondering if anyone else’s primary protectors just disappear into the headspace for hours or sometimes days at a time without explanation?

#did #did system #protector #primary protector #dissociative identity disorder #is that normal?

our thoughts on endogenic systems (as parts of a traumagenic system)

personally we don’t really believe that a system can be truly endogenic, HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t valid to identify as an endogenic system. we believe that scientifically isn’t possible to have DID without severe childhood trauma, but we do believe its possible to not remember your trauma, or to have it stored way too deep in your headspace/inner world to even access it. in our minds endogenic systems aren’t systems that didn’t experience trauma, but instead they are systems that can’t remember/access it, and that’s totally okay!! if you are multiple and you can’t remember your trauma that’s totally okay and you are still valid, cause why would you want to remember it? don’t let the endophobes get to you.

that being said, we don’t really get/agree with tulpas as a part of the multiple community. we’re always open to discussion however! we’d hate to offend someone just because we got a few definitions wrong haha.

please don’t send hate, but feel free to message us with opposing views or ideas. we love discussion and would love to learn new things or respectfully debate <3.

- put together by delilah, roweighn, and lynn xx

#did #osdd #did system #traumagenic system #trauma #traumagenic #endogenic #thoughts

aethersvstem

DID Thing #5

Co-fronting or experiencing passive influence and feeling like someone put you in a blender and made a personality smoothie.

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Some explanations about integration and the language around it! All definitions taken (but paraphrased) from the ISSTD Journal of Trauma and Dissociation (2011).

And just a footnote: There is no “one size fits all” goal. The needs and desires of each system are between the parts and their therapist (if they have one.) Whether a system wants to pursue final fusion or come to a resolution between parts is totally up to them. Both are valid and respected options.

[Check out my DID/OSDD Casually Explained masterpost for sources and more infographics!]

maemaybe

Can we all be a little more careful about how we talk about trauma and DID?

Too frequently I see people who have been pushed into believing that they can’t have DID/OSDD because someone told them that their trauma wasn’t bad enough or didn’t occur during the exact right time period.

Today I saw a post by someone who had misunderstood the critical period for the formation of DID and thought that unless their trauma happened between the ages of 6 and 9 they couldn’t have DID. They thought that trauma that happened before age six was too early.

So lets be really clear in the way we speak. DID is caused by childhood trauma between birth and when children typically finish developing a cohesive sense of self. For most children, this occurs around age six but for some children it happens as late as age nine.

So DID is caused by trauma between birth and age 6 or 9. It is not caused by trauma between ages 6 to 9.

And on a similar note, can be please stop saying that DID is caused only by the most extreme forms of child abuse? DID is caused by trauma. Trauma includes more than abuse. Some people with DID were never abused. Some people with DID do not consider what they went through “extreme” and hearing these things can be invalidating and send people into denial or keep people from considering DID as a possibility.

co-fronting

When you suddenly front and just kinda stare off for a minute trying to figure out where you are and who you are

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TW - what it’s like to live with DID

Most people out there have no idea how hard it is…

to ask yourself permanently who you are

not to know how to survive the day

to lose time and forget things all day

to struggle with alters who want to die or hurt the body

to struggle with alters who want to go back to the abusers because everything is better than being alone

to be overwhelmed by emotions like anger, sadness, anxiety

to be afraid of getting into a state of dissociation in public situations, being petrified, not able to move or talk

not to be able to trust anyone because everyone you trusted has abandoned you or abused you

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Thank you @dissociatingdingo for being my editor on this one. ♥

My casual explanations are a combination of academic research, personal experience, and community feedback. These are informal (or loosely defined) terms for common DID/OSDD experiences, and may not be applicable to every DID/OSDD system. Some systems may have additional experiences not listed.

[Check out my DID/OSDD Casually Explained masterpost for sources and more infographics!]

aether--system

Me after drinking an energy drink: dissociation, but faster

grimlet

can you like/reblog this if youre a DID/OSDD system?

i really want to follow and meet more ppl!

horrorthyme

What people think DID is: Oh we are all people actively living in the head and it’s so black and white and easy to tell between switches actual DID: it’s been 3 hours and I still can’t tell who’s fronting.