#dissociative disorder

[mindwrms]

your system literally can look like anything. it can have only introjects, it can have no introjects, it can have only non human members, it can have only members that look exactly like the body, it can have only littles, it can have only ageless members, it can have a full system of members that all have only one type of role, it can have a million members, it can have only two members. there is no set way systems have to look! they can present however your brain deems necessary for you!

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

[zinzabee]

Having PTSD/dissociative disorders is annoying, your brain is basically perma-broke and never functions quite the same even after things get better for you.

[thefluxsystem]

You know what the worst part of having a dissociative disorder is, for me personally?

The emotional amnesia.

Your entire life feels like something that you watched on TV, rather than something that you actually lived through.

You know that some of the most horrific things imaginable have happened to you, and you feel nothing about it. Sure, the memories disgust you on principle, but you don’t feel anything.

It makes you question if anything that you remember is real. If that actually happened, shouldn’t it feel significant? Shouldn’t you be sad, angry, hurt, something?

And to top it all off, nobody understands. Not even yourself.

[sphinx-witchcraft]

"But the evil fakers!!! They're why nobody takes me and my x disorder seriously!-" ah, so close! Nobody takes you seriously because you are visibly a minority in a medical field that can't sympathize with anyone that deviates from western eurocentric standards and values. Oh, you also don't fit the stereotype of what a typical person with x disorder looks like. Yeah, those people are just saying fakers are the issue because its easier to say that "faking" is the issue instead of saying it's the system they rely on. Yeah sorry, killing all the "fakers" won't change the system at all. No, yeah, you've still got a lot to learn.

[bhramarii]

STAGE DIRECTIONS FOR A MISSING SELF - my newest zine

A short, experimental work about memory, dissociation, and the versions of ourselves that exist in photographs when we don't remember being there.

Available on gumroad:

Stage Directions for a Missing Self

Stage Directions for a Missing Self is a small experimental zine combining illustration, script-like dialogue, and blackout poetry.Using pho

[dizzy-pops]

“People who claim to be endogenic are misinformed about the nature of systemhood, have most likely buried their traumatic childhood memories, and are usually not just faking” AND “I don’t want endos or their supporters anywhere fucking near me,” are statements that CAN and DO coexist, btw