It pains me to see people who struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and Traumatic Brain Injuries get roped into the plural community.
As a person who struggles with severe BPD and Bipolar Disorder, I can say for a fact that compartmentalizing your emotional shifts into separate, distinct identities is harmful. Potentially even dangerous.
By doing this, you're worsening the dissociation that already exists between these mood swings, and you're hindering the integration process that is required for any sort of recovery in treatment for BPD. This means worsening your pre-existing tendency to split, also known as black-and-white thinking, or all-or-nothing thinking.
Splitting as a pwBPD already puts the majority of us at risk, and you're telling me you're "coping" or "managing" your symptoms by exacerbating them? By putting yourself in danger?
The thing is, not 100% of pwBPD experience dissociation. It's roughly around 80% of us who do, and by exacerbating your symptoms, you even put yourself at risk of inducing it on yourself.
The entire point behind DBT treatment specialized for BPD is to integrate these emotional, nonautonomous states to reduce the symptoms of BPD, especially "splitting."
Once again. These are emotional, non-autonomous states. They are not separate identities like the dissociated, autonomous states in CDDs.
They're not a result of separate beings. They're a result of your difficulty in regulating your emotional responses. The sooner you accept that, the quicker you can learn to cope and manage.
This goes the same for Bipolar Disorder, except that for people with Bipolar Disorder, only about 50% of us experience dissociation. So yes, you could also risk inducing dissociation or worsening it by treating your mood swings as separate entities.
Though when it comes to TBIs, we don't have firsthand experience with this, but we have spoken to others before about their own recovery and have done light research regarding it. ( We have also spoken about it with our mother, who has been in the medical field for over 20 years and is still working in healthcare. )
Attempting to or actively compartmentalizing the effects and symptoms of your TBI into these separate, distinct identities is actually discouraged in the medical field and community. Not only can it worsen or exacerbate your symptoms, but it could also put you at risk of developing "Borrowed Identity Syndrome."
Now, I know I have no problem with when someone decides to recover, but it is a problem when you're actively encouraging anti-recovery ideals to other vulnerable people, especially minors.
I've said this once before, and I'll say it again: the plural community is a rebranded hate group that targets and preys on the vulnerable and susceptible.
In all honesty, I may do a deeper dive regarding this topic in the future, but I am unsure at the moment. Though if anyone else is interested in the topic, I encourage you to try as well.
NOTE : This post is a queued, old draft. I, Vil, am not too keen on being on social media anymore after something unrelated to Tumblr. I'll attempt with a hiatus first, but who knows, I may transfer the ownership to someone else if anyone wants it. I think I would rather focus on my own system and our recovery before facing people who love to terrorize traumatized people.
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