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I remember when I thought quarantine would fix our system’s sleep schedule.

Jokes on me,,,, it’s worse.

- gemma 💙

#support speaks.#gemma.#ik our activitys been bad its because we have the most whack sleep schedule rn

dualvoidanima

#maddie.#fire tw #scarlet.

straightboyfriend

me at 4 am: i should get some water

me in my head: i can’t because five nights at freddy’s will be at. the fridge

#ava.

isappho-deactivated20240418

bi men dont get enough positivity, so here’s some positivity for bi men!! y’all are so awesome, y’all are absolutely badass, y’all are epic

#important.

reidt-plus-eight

important-ish

hey, owen here. i kind of want to start connecting with other systems on tumblr, just for solidarity because i’m pretty alone in navigating this relatability wise. if you’re see this post, could you perhaps share it in hopes that another system will see it? i feel like maybe being friends with other systems would help us figure a lot of things out and maybe just be more comfortable being authentically ourselves. thank you in advance if you do reblog this :)

yourfaveisafictive

Fictives cannot control their source. If you come from a problematic source, a source that is triggering or a source your system doesn’t like, you’re still valid!

#important.#reminders.

Hi I’m nana I’m 2 I wike my teddy an chocwit miwky an I wike fwens 💜🧸 natty an Gemmy shay Im babie oh an I wite dis wif nattys hewp - nana 💜🧸

#nana.#support speaks.#actuallydid #other system littles can interact with nana! - nat

adhd-vibes

adhd + music moods:

listening to the same song on repeat for 72 hours straight

requires absolutely no sound. complete silence only. if anyone so much as breathes…

NEED ALL THE NOISE. MUSIC AT FULL BLAST. The external volume has to be loud enough to drown out the internal volume so I can hear the one productive thought. I SAID THE EXT-

music has to be just loud enough that i can hear it, but quiet enough so i forget it’s on and i don’t get distracted by changing the song

too late. i am now changing the song every .2 seconds. hits shuffle. hits shuffle. hits skip. switches playlist. creates a new playlist that is a slight variation of an already existing playlist. it’s been 5 hours.

#mental health.#gemma.

everythingfox

Fig the Fox

#animals.#natalia.

frogitivity

Welcome to Build-a-Frog!

Click here to enter

we-willbe-thin

gUyS please click the link you won’t regret it

cassiesinsanity

Its been so long since Build-a-Frog came across my dash. I needed them today :)

#references.#miriam.

hey! I’m gemma, co-host of the support system!! We’re a new system blog and super stoked to make friends!!! 💙💙💙

Tags haven’t really been working for us but we’d love to make friends and meet other systems!! 💙💙💙

#actuallydid #did #did system #dissociative identity disorder #support speaks.#gemma.

thealmightysystem

Just In Case You Feel Fake

I struggle with this a lot so I know others probably do, and I want you guys to know this.

People with DID who have absolutely no memory of what the other alter did, or having alters that act completely and totally 100% different from you, are rare.

Yes, the diagnoses for DID is that you have problems remembering what you’re doing while dissociated. It explains that if you have trouble identifying simple things about yourself (name,age, address, where you’re from, etc.) and that you seem to have voices or thought streams that don’t at all connect to each other, and that you often have large gaps not just in your everyday (dependent) memory but also in your past (remote) memories, then you have DID.

However, what people often forget, is that the DSM-V addresses TWO TYPES of switches: Those where the alters are so drastically different that they’re completely different people (”possession-form”), and those that are less obvious and hard to detect but are still noticeable to the individuals within the system (”non-possession-form”).

If you don’t experience dissociative fugue (”coming to” in random locations), don’t really experience finding random items, and still have some vague clue as to what the other alter was doing but no actual memory of it, that’s non-possessive-form.

If you don’t remember a single thing, if you come-to in random locations, and people tell you it’s like you’re a totally new person – if your alters take on their own actions and you don’t have a clue what they did until later, that’s possessive-form, and it is VERY RARE.

The point of DID/OSDD, is that the system is trying to be covert, for your survival. Even if you have no active communication within your system, sometimes you’ll have some vague “we went to the doctor” kind of idea, but when, how, and what actually happened/was said may be completely beyond you. That’s normal.

In overt possessive-form DID, a second alter could literally go on a vacation, hit it up at a night club, and then switch, and the first alter has absolutely no clue what happened, just that they’re now in a night club and holding a drink when the last thing they remember doing was driving to work. (Bad example but you get the idea.) This kind of memory lapse and abrupt difference is RARE. This is NOT HOW ALL DID SYSTEMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE, but it’s how some of them are..

Does it happen? Absolutely, yes. But the DSM-V recounts that most of non-possessive-form systems, and some possessive-form systems, don’t actually have clean cut “this is obviously a different alter” behavior.

“In many possession-form cases of dissociative identity disorder, and in a small portion of non-possession-form dissociative identity disorder do not overtly display their discontinuity of identity for long periods of time; only a small minority present to clinical attention with observable alternation of identities. … Possession-form identities in dissociative identity disorder typically manifest as behaviors that appear as if a “spirit,” supernatural being, or outside person has taken control, such that the individual begins speaking or acting in a distinctly different manner.”

It’s okay if you can just barely ‘know’ what your alter did, but have literally no visual or cognitive memory of it. That’s extremely common.

If you’re capable of visually remembering what your alter did (i.e., like you’re in the “backseat,” not co-con but still able to know what’s going on, can remember what they did even after leaving front, don’t have to discuss with them what they did, everyone seems to have a “memory pool” that most of them can pull from), that’s a form of OSDD.

If you have sudden switches where you come to in random places, people tell you you behave so differently they can’t figure out who you are, you’re faced with actions and consequences you have no recollection of doing but you clearly did them, or that people sometimes say (or you feel like) you were possessed – that’s possession-form, and is rare.

(Psst. Both of them are 100% valid.)

#references.#mental health.#favourite.#important.

this-is-psychosis

I often talk about reality checking and going along with it when helping someone deal with delusions, but I felt as if I didn’t really make it clear to what I meant when I said it.

Recently I saw a post similar to “how to sneakily give your delusional friend a reality check when they told you not to” and honestly, that’ll just make us lose trust for you. Because we can tell when you do that.

kokkuri3

One thing I want to add: adding new information to the delusion INCLUDES stuff like “As long as you keep the door closed, it won’t hurt you.” While these may seem comforting, they give validity to the delusion and are ultimately harmful. Don’t try to out-logic delusions. Just keep the delusional person safe.