I tend to avoid online spaces but this specific thing has been bothering me for a long time.
OSDDID spaces online present their experiences very identity-first and everyone always seems to have personal relationships with their alters, like they are their friends or family.
I don't feel connected to them at all, spare for two. Not only this but I don't see them as people either. Just me in different forms stuck in different periods. They still have different "selves": different interests, dislikes, mannerisms, behaviors, and so on, but I still don't see them as "people". I think when it comes down to it I see them purely as symptoms and nothing else. It's taken me a long time to even call them alters at all.
Knowing I have DID at all terrified me, but to see online OSDDID spaces not represent how I experience this makes it all the more lonely.
Yeah, it's pretty common to experience DID in the way you've described. Not to say that alters having relationships with each other or viewing themselves as "separate people" isn't possible, because it definitely does happen. But people online have a tendency to only discuss DID in terms of its most distinct and obvious forms, when in actuality the majority of DID cases present as more subtle and covert.
It's actually healthier not to view alters as separate people, because objectively speaking they aren't and those feelings of separation only reinforce the disorder. It's why the theory of structural dissociation mentions several times that clinicians should not treat alters as separate people and needs to emphasize them as parts of a whole, otherwise the person won't be able to achieve any degree of integration.
I don't mind people acknowledging the fact that alters can believe themselves to be very separate, I take issue with how this presentation is treated as if it's the one true way to experience DID. And with how people insist that such heavy dissociation is actually healthy and doesn't need to be worked on. It very much crosses the line into treating DID like an identity label instead of a serious mental illness, which isn't conducive to anyone's recovery.
And the end result of all of this is that people with the most common presentations of DID do not feel understood within what is supposed to be their own community, which is a shame.
on the one hand there are many aspects of academia that should be criticized but on the other hand i’m concerned about the rise of anti-intellectualism as a tool of fascism
Hey yo what the fuck does this say in English? Because if you can’t explain in layman’s terms you’re not doing a good job of getting your point across to everyone.
there should be an option for those who cannot or will not be willing to participate in society. society should be a thing you opt-in for, for those who are insane enough to participate . leave me out of this completely and entirely
Haha. Uh guys block @/anti-willo-monika , @/anti-willo-nikki , @/anti-willo-antinous , and @/anti-willo-ashley-graves if you don't want to see someone talking about killing itself
call me the woker but telling people to kill themselves is wrong and calling people whores is whorephobic and also wrong. i dont know why we have to start making posts like this now. end post and also end sex worker stigma and also for gods sake stop telling people to die
(also on this topic support end whorephobia and hustle for humanity and ALSO woodhull freedom foundation theyre organizations that advocates for sex workers safety and rights as well as the rights of other groups discriminated against)
omg anti psych & anti endo??? you have no idea how relieved i am to see that i feel like we are rare atleast on this platform 😭🙏 its actually so insufferable how much pro endos are in anti psych spaces. tho i guess that also comes with being anti intellectual
sorry if that ask seemed very random 😅 i came across your posts when trying to find anti psych takes that i actually agree with so i appreciate what you do. anyway, hope you're having a good day/night!
i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people
people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!