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Takayama System Selfie™️ in front of the (inspiration image for) apartment building where we live in our head space—we call it The Brownstone. 🥰

Front to back, left to right:

Bre - she/they, inner middle (13 yo, twin)

Yoshi - sie/hir, inner teen/dopamine ambassador (19 yo)

Dylan - they/them, system executive functioner/protector (30 yo)

Noah - he/him, head of system/singletsona (30 yo)

Haru - he/they, inner middle (13 yo, twin)

CamCam - any/none, inner child (2 yo)

Mie - she/her, system core/caretaker of littles

periodic-counsel

a never-ending cycle

cerbiecourse

Your daily reminder...

You do not need to post about things to care about them. "I see you not reblogging" is guilt-tripping.

You're allowed to curate your own blog. "I don't care if this doesn't fit your blog aesthetic" is guilt-tripping.

You're allowed to skip past posts that distress you. "x amount of people must reblog" is guilt-tripping.

Permission is not needed but for those whom it will make more comfortable; you are allowed to block people who post bullcrap that makes you feel guilty.

This post has no DNI; everyone may reblog regardless of syscourse stance, but reblogs are not required. Spread love.

− Helena, she/her, Emotional Protector from within the Cerberus collective Rylas, he/they, Tulpa and caretaker from within the Cerberus collective

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[.]"

periodic-counsel

being an alter that doesnt front often means you get to experience character design time skips

mothmate

Girl who’s a house

battle-for-dyke-island

being a canon divergent fictive while also really liking canon is really funny,

greelin

“why do you rb and add to your own posts” i’m talking to myself

starfoozle

Well this is a new one.

lgbtranswoman

Mundane plurality is:

STOP BUYING SO MANY PLUSHIES

WhydidyoubuyanddrinksomuchfuckingcoffeebeforeIswitchedin

Dude I JUST BOUGHT more paper towels!

My stomach is upset, did you take our meds? Wait... What do you mean you had a big glass of milk!?

Hey I need help, can you front and beat this videogame boss for me?

Hey our partner was looking for you. Yeah he was mad at me cause you ate his leftovers, jackass

*laughs out loud at something that happened in the headspace*

Yes I know this person is being an asshole, no you can't front to chew them out.

Hey y'all am I good to get us high? Did any of y'all have plans?

Hey can I have some attention and snuggles I'm having a bad brain day...

What do y'all want for dinner tonight? We feelin spaghetti? I dunno if I'll still be around by the time it's done

mundane-plurality-is

mundane plurality is having your headmates try to get your body out of bed every morning. one of them has resorted to making alarm clock noises.

Lmao??? That's really good

— 🦌

council-of-the-void

I wish I could give physical bodies to the other sysmembers.

They could be here and we could play card games or watch a movie and throw popcorn at each other when one of us talks too loud.

We could go on walks together, side by side.

Everyday mundane things that could be done as separate bodies.

Showing platonic affection in our unique ways.

ccyberdrmzz

im surrounded by her stuff, her family, her friends. I live in her body, her house, i talk to her friends. They bought all of these and i'm just here to use them. He lived through all of these things and i just came and replaced her.