Mycroft - he/him

I am just a Victorian man who discovered the internet and is very interested by discourse, especially syscourse, and debating. I am taken and the system I am in is a minor. Do not flirt with me.

[mycroft-syscourse]

Good morning or evening fellas, I made this account as my host does not like when I get into syscourse and so I do not have to sign off. I am from @my-epiphany and you can call me Mycroft and use he/him. Because the system I am in is a trans male, I identify as both a trans male and a cis male. I am gay and taken, and the system I am in is a minor bodily so do not be weird and try flirting with me.

I am a Victorian man, at least my source is. Which is why I talk weirdly with proper punctuation, I am not being cold, I just type like this. I am also autistic so I might struggle with tones and social cues. I am also polite and civil, if I seem mad, I am most likely not but you can ask if you are unsure.

I do not like tonetags and touches. My system is traumagenic and not endogenic. I am technically syscourse unaligned but I support and love endogenic system. Hatred for anyone who is not myself has no place in my heart.

[singtiple]

Just read a very interesting fMRI study on non-disordered plurality. It's a peer-reviewed study that was published in 2019 to the scientific journal Medical Hypotheses, and worked on by 11 different researchers.

They scanned a small sample of people who, despite not having trauma or any mental health condition, developed distinct multiple identities during meditation. The brain scans showed activation patterns in some of the same areas of the brain that are also seen in DID as well as the dissociative symptoms of PTSD.

This supports the hypothesis that plurality exists on a continuum from healthy to disordered!

I'm super excited to see more studies like this in the future. It will be invaluable in deepening our understanding of plurality, dissociation, and the brain.

Here's a link to the study. From the abstract:

"In this study we report on five very uncommon 'hypnotic virtuosos' (HVs) free from any psychiatric disorder, spontaneously undergoing the emergence of multiple identities during neutral hypnosis; this allowed us to check the relationship between their experience and fMRI data. During hypnosis the subjects underwent spontaneous non-intrusive experiences of other selves which were not recalled after the end of the session, due to post-hypnotic amnesia. [...] Our results and their contrast with the available data on fMRI in DIDs allows us to draw the hypothesis of a continuum between the healthy mind – where multiple identities may coexist at unconscious level and may sometimes emerge to the consciousness – and DIDs[.]"

[paparazzimurderparty]

how it feels trying to hold back the mean alters from saying mean shit

[mycroft-syscourse]

I did not just try to be friends with anti endo systems and people. I, for a long time, was friends with almost exclusively anti-endo people. And it made us so damn miserable. More than now.

I was not here, but I have the memories. And I am already someone with deep self hatred for myself, my sexuality and my gender. To be better, I need a space that won't make me miserable. And I do not think that, as for now, anti endo spaces could.

[deltoradecay]

[mycroft-syscourse]

I miss my boyfriend :( why i have to front when could be in headspace with him:(

(I AM A MINOR DON'T BE WEIRD)

[mycroft-syscourse]

how tf did anon get that wrong

Cambrian has mentioned how theyre super old so many times

Just clearing my inbox don't mind that

[singtiple]

Plurality, as conceptualized in peer-reviewed research:

Plurality, often also called multiplicity, is "having more than one self in the mind and body" (Eve & Parry, 2021).

Plurality "is not a diagnosis" (Eve, et al., 2023) and is "a broader concept than DID" (Christensen, 2022).

Plurality is "a broad term, which encompasses a range of experiences" because "people have individual conceptualizations of what it means to be ‘more than one’" (Eve, et al., 2023).

Plurality is "a term coined to be more inclusive than only that of traumagenic multiplicity" (Christensen, 2022).

Not all people who experience plurality will identify as a 'plural' or 'multiple.' Plurality is a useful umbrella term for the experience of more-than-oneness "but not necessarily a term reflective of one's identity or self-expression" (Christensen, 2022).

"[N]ot everyone who identifies as multiple will want or require mental health intervention for the condition they experience" (Eve, et al., 2023).

The concept of non-traumagenic plurality does not hurt DID research. "[T]he research confirming DID as a trauma-based disorder is doing just that: confirming traumagenic DID, the disorder, not Plurality, the identity . . . Distinguishing between the two does not need to invalidate either" (Christensen, 2022).

The idea that plurality is inherently disordered is a product of Western culture. "Within Western linear frameworks . . . there has been an emphasis on the ‘healthy self’ being integrated and whole" (Eve & Parry, 2021). "In indigenous cultures, esp. shamanic societies, a polypsychism (i.e. many selves) prevails" (Scharfetter, 2008).

Fakeclaiming and anti-endo / anti-plural rhetoric is traumatizing. "[H]aving a condition such as multiplicity that is not generally validated and recognised in a community can be, in itself, traumatic. Even if trauma does not precede the development of multiplicity, trauma-informed care would still be appropriate for many young people who seek help for multiplicity" (Parry, et al., 2021).

[mycroft-syscourse]

Just curious, why are your replies off on all your posts but not your reblogs?

They're not? I don't remember them being off or turning them off. I will take a look

It's Tumblr, automatically turned them off it's pissing me off, I turned them on

[mycroft-syscourse]

You are in the syscourse tag, and I feel like the two sides do not have the same definition of endogenic. Your refusal of trying to see another point because you are in an echo chamber is not my issue.

I was not mean or aggressive, I was polite. You responded with aggressiveness. Because I do not agree with you. You must be a fucking miserable person.

I have a lot of hatred for myself. But I know that hurting people and being miserable to them is not going to make it better. If anything it will make it worse.

PS: this is a sideblog. i can still see your blog if you only block me there.

[thequeenscoffin]

how some systems act when you are an actual person and don't define your systemhood by hatred of endogenics

[1m-n0t-birdz]

Crazy concept for anti-endos... Endogenic systems don't need a heap of studies to prove they're real because it isn't a medical condition, nor is it trying to be. IT DOESN'T NEED A HEAP OF 'PROOF' TO BE VALID IT ISN'T A MEDICAL CONDITION.

I fear y'all do not understand that endogenic systems aren't "faking a disorder" it's a seperate term for a reason dude. Fucking get it through your heads that endogenic systems aren't trying to cosplay a real condition.

Anyways, feel free to fight me! I honestly would love to see what you guys have to say ngl.

[tussai]

You are not very great at being a sysmed when the "source" (wikipedia) you use regularly cites the FMF/GF to discredit Ross, who basically argue that DID is not trauma based in favor of the sociocognitive model.

Fucking yikes.

Here are the sources that tie back to Grey Faction in some way.

Both of these have been debunked and broken down already. I could do it again myself... but I am admittedly lazy and prefer to shed light on other's work if they do a good job already.

Edit: I sounded slightly like an asshole with the sysmed comment. I made that comment because in the tags of the post I am vaguing, they used "proud sysmed." I am not insulting them by calling them a sysmed. I am insulting them by saying they are bad at being a sysmed.

[battle-for-dyke-island]

I keep thinking abt this anon that said “you can’t be traumagenic and non-disordered, not experiencing distress doesn’t disqualify you from DID, go read a book” bcuz I went to read a book (the dsm5) and it told me

3. The person must be distressed by the disorder or have trouble functioning in one or more major life areas because of the disorder. This criterion is common among all serious mental illness diagnoses as a diagnosis is not appropriate where the symptoms do not create distress and/or trouble functioning.

like the dsm5. the dsm5. lmao

[seascourse-sidecourse]

love to see someone making a point, then debunking their own point with their own sources. a self-own like any other truly

[mycroft-syscourse]

Sorry if I scare people about my mental health sometimes. Will not stop unfortunately. I still have depression but we are okay, we have support.

[tussai]

I forgot why I did this. It has been sitting in my drafts for a while. I think it was originally to prove a point about how much you limit yourself if you exclude controversial researchers from your reading. I don’t feel like making an argument about it anymore, but I still wanna share Colin Ross's three most influential contributions to MPD/DID research:

Colin Ross was a key developer of The Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule (DDIS). This is a huge one because MPD/DID research had a major problem with inconsistent diagnosis. The DDIS gave researchers a standardized way to assess DID/MPD and related dissociative conditions. Very cool.

Ross, C A et al. “Structured interview data on 102 cases of multiple personality disorder from four centers.” The American journal of psychiatry vol. 147,5 (1990): 596-601. doi:10.1176/ajp.147.5.596. This was a big deal because MPD was often criticized as anecdotal, therapist-created, or based on weird case reports. To combat this, Colin Ross and his colleagues provided 102 systematically assessed patients from four different clinical centers/sites.

Colin Ross's book, Multiple Personality Disorder: Diagnosis, Clinical Features, and Treatment, published in 1989, is probably his most influential clinical publication. This book helped shape how clinicians conceptualized MPD in the late 80s/90s. Pretty foundational, and highly referenced in older stuff from around the same era.

He was among the early modern high-output clinician-researchers who aggressively argued DID is real and diagnosable. I have immense respect for that. Eye lasers be damned (which I don't think is that big of a deal to begin with since I experience psychotic-like symptoms, so I'm cautious about treating unusual beliefs as automatically disqualifying). Colin Ross's later controversial beliefs are separate from evaluating his earlier contributions to DID research.

Here is a list of other things I like that cite Colin Ross as a source:

Dorahy, Martin J et al. “Auditory hallucinations in dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia with and without a childhood trauma history: similarities and differences.” The Journal of nervous and mental disease vol. 197,12 (2009): 892-8. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181c299ea. Found that voice-hearing in DID often started earlier, involved more than two voices, included child and adult voices, and had more tactile/visual hallucinations than schizophrenia groups. Very important if you're trying to understand "voices" without automatically calling them schizophrenia.

Longden, Eleanor et al. “The Relationship Between Dissociation and Symptoms of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis.” Schizophrenia bulletin vol. 46,5 (2020): 1104-1113. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbaa037. Found a strong association between dissociation and psychotic experiences, particularly hallucination-like experiences. Neato.

Renard, Selwyn B et al. “Unique and Overlapping Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum and Dissociative Disorders in Relation to Models of Psychopathology: A Systematic Review.” Schizophrenia bulletin vol. 43,1 (2017): 108-121. doi:10.1093/schbul/sbw063. Directly compares schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and dissociative disorders, looking at where symptoms overlap and where they differ. Very good for differential diagnosis.