❤️ Merrily Multiple ❤️

Plural based blog inclusive of all system . types, traumatized or not, traumagenic or not, diagnosed or not. Partraumagenic system. We're currently expanding ^-^ . Exclusionists WILL be dragged into syscourse. FIGHT SYSMEDICALISM!!

[merrilymultiple]

Fun facts about us/Before You Interact

We're parotraumagenic, which means we intentionally formed to deal with trauma. We are both parogenic and traumagenic.

We do not have a diagnosis of DID, OSDD, UDD, or any other disssociative disorder. We do have CPTSD, and a wonderful psychologist who accepts and works with our plurality despite the lack of a diagnosis.

You may interact with us if you are a sysmed, if you want to syscourse. Do not send hate. You will be blocked.

We're bodily over the age of 18. If you are a minor (in the body, not talking about Syskids), know that we don't particularly want to interact with minors too much. Feel free to like and reblog and follow, but don't expect us to become internet friends. And please, for the love of Thor, if you're a minor, TELL US so we know not to use NSFW jokes and language and stuff around you.

We are a parotraumagenic system. This blog, therefore, will sometimes delve into mature subject matter, like tr-uma, the various treatments thereof, add-cti-n, etc. We will try to tag things on request, but we are forgetful. Not everything will be tagged.

A systemmate named Deidamia and her sysmate Lei run this blog most of the time. They love syscourse and are very pro-endo. They browse the syscourse tag every day for arguments. If you're not into syscourse, you probably shouldn't have put your anti-endo rant in the syscourse tags, because hashtagsyscourse is for syscoursing. If you don't want to syscourse, tag it as "do not reblog" or don't tag it as syscourse at all. Still, if you ask nicely, chances are we'll remove any syscourse posts we replied to that you started.

We do not, in any circumstances, condone real-life abuse. Period. End of.

We believe that consenting adults should be able to do whatever they wish in the bedroom. We really aren't here to have discourse about that. Any attempts to do so will likely be ignored.

We have a life partner. We do not want any romantic or s-xual involvement with anyone on this site.

We are pro-ship because we believe it is the right of the author to express themselves however they please, and the responsibility of the reader to control what they choose to read if they dislike certain material.

Just because we are pro-ship doesn't mean we participate in any of the ships a person may find unpalatable. Actually, we're not in any fandoms at all right now. We just respect author's rights. We also don't really wish to get directly involved in shipping discourse, though we may reblog posts reflecting our thoughts on it from time to time, Anti-shippers... I guess you can like and follow and reblog, but DNI to have shipping discourse. Go have that elsewhere.

We do not wish to engage in system-hopping, but we support others who do so safely, cautiously, and consensually.

We are anti map for our own physical safety. Maps/nomaps/clovergender/kindergender/whatever DO NOT INTERACT.

On that note, our syskids and system littles are CHILDREN. We have a side blog for things that our littles reblog or things that we reblog for them. They will probably not be active on this blog, but if ever they are, treat them no differently than you would treat a physical child of that age or you will be blocked without hesitation.

It is a well-known fact that some traumagenic systems have alters or systemmates who have positive feelings about the type of trauma that they went through. We are chronically ill and physically disabled. We were formed partially from medical trauma. Therefore, it makes sense that we have systemmates who romanticize our conditions and disabilities. I understand that the glamorization of illness can make some people uncomfortable. But it's a valid trauma response, one that has proven extremely useful to us, and therefore one that we don't intend to change.

Branching off of this, some of our members support the transabled. Because we are cisdisabled, the systemmates who cope by romanticizing our medical trauma would find it flattering if someone cis-abled were to want to be disabled like we are.

Unfortunately, as much as many of us very much want to wax poetic about our disability, it's rare enough to potentially, when combined with other details about our life that we share here, identify us to former abusers and jeopardize our safety, so we must ask that you refrain from asking what we have when we vaguepost about it.

I can't believe we even have to say this, but terfs and trans exclusionists DNI

We have a carrd.

--Deidamia/Minerva

[syscoverychannel]

Plural inside jokes are THE MOST inside a joke can get, I think

[positivitygenic]

your plural joy and whimsy is absolutely marvelous and always inherently deserving of being protected.

[reno132-deactivated20260416]

How many adult systems are there?

Sometimes I worry and feel a little childish for being involved in system communities. I know there are some adult systems, but there have to be more, right?

Interact if you're an adult system!

[the-gremlin-gang]

they should invent a kind of plurality where you don't get blurry

[gentlewindchimes]

Being a system/plural is all fun and games until you're blurry and don't know who to "act" like or just who you are because nothing feels right so you spiral into thinking you're faking. Does anyone relate 😂😂😂

[positivitygenic]

every answer as to why you are plural is a valid answer. especially if that answer is that you don't know.

[editedantiendoposts]

“The future is plural!” is admitting you want a future in which all plurals can live life and be accepted in society, not that you want to traumatize kids into having DID.

[mesa-sys]

and also a world where choosing to be plural is socially acceptable !!

[the-angelic-collective-deactiva]

Reminder that even the tiniest speck of plural joy is stronger than all the ableism, sysphobia, and endophobia in the world!

All systems are amazing, and all systems are special! Our experiences are the most beautiful thing in the world! (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)

[positivitygenic]

how your plurality functions is not something to be ashamed about. especially if the way your plurality functions is not something you can talk about with certain people, or even most people. you are doing your best, and you are more than what someone else would think of you.

[crabussy]

how come they make you reinvent the concept of dinner every evening. I have to make dinner come true every evening like some kind of unpaid genie intern

[goatedgreen]

every person you meet will have one bit that only they find funny. it is important that you hate that bit as much as possible in order to enrich their experience of doing the bit. it is part of the enjoyment of the bit

[myceliumatter]

in a beautiful world there would be physical therapists who specialize in helping transspecies individuals move their body in more affirming ways. yes quads but also moving ears/nose, changing posture, increasing flexibility, and just generally teaching your body how to move in ways it technically can but doesn't even know how to begin

[wordpress-blaze-247483359]

Depression is an Evolutionary Parasite

We describe depression as a mood disorder, a chemical imbalance, a constellation of symptoms to be managed and endured. These definitions capture mechanics but miss the essential horror: depression doesn't simply cause suffering. It actively resists its own cure.

Anyone who has been trapped inside it recognizes the pattern. You think about calling the doctor and immediately a voice emerges: "It won't help." You consider therapy and it responds with surgical precision: "You've already tried that." Someone suggests medication and it deploys your own memories against you: "Remember how bad the side effects were? Remember how nothing worked?"

These aren't random intrusions or neutral byproducts of dysfunction. They are arguments. They follow logic. They anticipate objections. They have a singular goal, to keep you from seeking treatment. They emerge precisely when you move toward help, armed with your own history, speaking in your own voice but serving interests opposed to your survival.

This reveals depression as something far more sinister than a passive mood disorder. It operates like a cognitive parasite: a system that has colonized your decision-making apparatus and repurposed it to ensure its own continuation. It generates thoughts that serve its survival rather than yours. It makes its self-protective arguments feel like your most authentic insights.

The Evolutionary Logic of Mental Parasites

A parasite doesn't require consciousness to develop sophisticated survival strategies. Malaria manipulates mosquito behavior to increase biting frequency. Rabies rewires mammalian aggression to maximize viral spread through saliva. Toxoplasma gondii alters rodent behavior to reduce fear of cats, ensuring the parasite reaches its preferred host. These parasites succeed not by brute force but by hijacking instinct, exactly the way depression hijacks thought.

Depression operates according to the same evolutionary logic. Over millions of years, the patterns we now call depression have been refined into a system that excels at persistence. The thoughts it generates, the beliefs it reinforces, the behaviors it promotes – all serve to maintain the depressive state and prevent its elimination. What feels like profound insight about your hopeless situation is actually the disease speaking through your cognitive machinery to protect itself from therapeutic intervention.

The Parasite's Defensive Arsenal

Shame as camouflage. Depression convinces you that the primary threat isn't the illness itself but the social consequences of acknowledging it. It generates certainty that seeking help will expose you as fundamentally broken in ways others will immediately recognize and judge. This shame doesn't originate from external social pressure. It's manufactured internally by the disease to disguise itself as reasonable social anxiety.

Hopelessness installed as deterrent. The disease installs absolute certainty that treatment is pointless, that you are beyond help, that your suffering is permanent and unchangeable. This isn't depression speaking truth about your situation. It's the illness generating the one belief system that guarantees its own survival. Hopelessness feels like clarity, like finally seeing your circumstances without illusion, but it's actually the most sophisticated lie the disease tells.

Rationalization deployed as decoy. Depression deploys your own intelligence against you, generating coherent arguments against action that feel like careful reasoning. The last medication failed, so why try another? Therapy is expensive. Maybe you'll get better on your own. These aren't insights discovered through reflection. They are symptoms masquerading as logic, using your cognitive abilities to construct barriers between you and treatment.

Identity captured as conquest. The most insidious strategy involves convincing you that the illness isn't something you have; it's something you are. Depression insists this suffering represents your authentic self finally revealed, that you're not sick but simply weak or broken in ways that treatment cannot address. Once you mistake the disease for your identity, you'll protect the disease as if protecting yourself.

Amnesia as erasure. Depression severs access to memory depending on your state. In an episode you cannot recall what wellness felt like. In remission you struggle to remember the logic and weight of hopelessness. This state-based amnesia isolates you in the present, making despair feel permanent and recovery feel impossible, ensuring the disease protects itself by erasing continuity between selves.

The Implications for Treatment and Policy

If depression generates its own thought-stream designed to prevent treatment, then self-report during depressive episodes becomes fundamentally compromised. The voice providing explanations for treatment avoidance isn't neutral; it's adversarial. When someone says they don't want help because "it won't work" or "I don't deserve it," they're not expressing authentic preferences. They're transmitting the disease's survival programming.

This reframes everything about treatment approach. Avoidance isn't choice, it's a symptom. Resistance isn't preference, it's the illness defending itself. The person refusing help isn't making a rational decision about their care; they're being spoken for by the disease that hijacked their decision-making.

And it completely reshapes policy priorities. Public awareness campaigns that target external stigma are fighting the wrong war. The real barrier isn't societal judgment, it's an internal adversary that generates shame, hopelessness, and resistance from within. External acceptance cannot override an illness that sabotages from the inside, using the host's own cognitive architecture against them.

The Language We Need

We need new language for this reality. Depression isn't passive weight that makes life harder. It's an active force that strategically opposes its own treatment. It's not a mood that comes and goes, it's a survival system that has evolved to persist.

Not a mood. Not just imbalance. A parasite of the mind, protecting its own existence at the expense of yours, speaking in your voice to convince you that seeking help is dangerous, pointless, or unnecessary. The voice telling you not to call the doctor isn't you being realistic about treatment options; it's the disease protecting itself from elimination.

Until we recognize depression as an adversarial system rather than a passive condition, we'll keep failing to treat it effectively. Antidepressants work when they reach the disease, but the disease excels at preventing people from taking them in the first place. Therapy succeeds when patients engage with it, but the illness specializes in generating reasons why therapy is pointless or harmful. The most effective treatments in the world cannot help people who never access them because a parasite in their head has convinced them that seeking help represents weakness or futile effort.

The real enemy operates undetected, using our own minds against us, ensuring its survival by disguising its self-defense as our self-preservation.

The cure exists. The parasite has just convinced you it's the poison.

Source: Depression is an Evolutionary Parasite

[semiplural]

Still Here

It'll be 9 years post-discovery in 2026.

A lot of things change. None of us are the same people we were 9 years ago, and only one of us is even recognizable. We've metamorphosed time and time again.

Some things get easier, and other things get harder. You learn how to handle the issues that keep hurting you, only to find new problems that need solving. It takes time to learn how to live life with each other. It takes a lot of time.

But it gets better. One day you'll look back and wonder how you ever struggled as much as you did. You'll always be learning, but you get faster at learning each lesson, and you'll have old lessons to lean back on. Living with the people in your head stops being as scary and overwhelming as it used to be. It's just another Tuesday.

Give it time.

[dakota-wuz-heer]

everybody needs to start having a zootopia mindset about plurality NOW

“Is it ok if we experience this?”

Anybody can be anything

“Can this alter have this role?”

anybody can be anything

“I’m ___genic is that valid?”

anybody can be anything

life will be much happier once we all hold hands, sing kumbaya, and follow in the footsteps of the Disney furry movie

[fictionfaire]

Fiction Faire 🪶🕊

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[merrilymultiple]

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