The Bridge System

Side-blog to vent and stuff for my system. Feel free to interact

[crapchronicles]

My idea for trying to remember to eat as a neurodivergent and chronically ill person:

Also, for remembering meds...

Thanks to @chungovscrungus for photoshopping these for me. You are a true artist.

[thenexussystem]

Being a tall alter walking in a short body

-Drew and Justin

[batmanego]

one more person lumping headmates in with cringe/kin tumblr is all it will take for me to fucking snap

[batmanego]

headmates is a colloquial phrasing for the medical term alters, which is what the distinct/dissociated states of self present in DID/OSDD-1a/b are called. please for the love of god stop putting dissociative disorders in with kin tumblr and/or painting them as fake tumblr disorders. it makes it even harder for us ppl who have them to get acceptance

[batmanego]

hi reblog this

[thethirteenthchild]

Hearing an alter open up to the therapist about shit you want kept secret:

[thebridgesystem]

That feeling when you just want the host to know you switching out to take care of them doesn’t make them a burden.

[appraisedtiktoks]

[thebisexualbooknerd]

They have the RANGE

[maroononthemoon]

[thebridgesystem]

Wow Jesus, just vivid dreamed with an alter that never fronts for the first time. Feeling a little disoriented this morning..

[snowfallsystem]

I realised that I had completely wrong picture of DID. Somehow my monkey brain thought "only full switches are switches and unless I don't remember stuff I was in control". Like bruh. No. So many things "I" do during the day are influenced by other alters.

I don't know how I have overlooked that for so long? Lmao what? Yeah that time that "I" was so bubbly and outgoing wasn't me feeling extremely well but actually an alter being cocon.

It kinda fucks with my brain to realize that. It made me feel really unstable.

I dunno.

[thebridgesystem]

Host: oh I think this alter is going to switch out soon!!

A totally different alter chillin in the head space: Think again mf!

[while-the-sun-falls]

Person: *asks a question about the host of a system*

The alter fronting who has no clue how to answer: idk man, I just work here

[multiplicitymemes]

[thebeesystemandmemes]

Every single time we drink coffee, someone screams in the background for a while. The things we get used to daily as a system would make mere mortals collapse.

[thebridgesystem]

Ash plays generic music waaaY to loud in the headspace and Andrew will ramble about almost nothing for hours. I’m just trying to keep the body clean man

[hello-its-us]

when you front and have know idea where you are or what day it is:

[thenexussystem]

What do your body physically go through when you switch?

(do you get a headache? get dizzy? do you get cold? etc.)

[thebridgesystem]

Kinda jarring, it can like all fuzzy and hard to focus on anything visually then just kinda.. fading back into a conversation but like.. body awareness? Like “oh I’m cold, or oh my jaw is clenched. Holy heck I’m tense.” Whoever fronts has to do a lil assessment of not just what’s going on around us but with us too. If the switch takes a while the body can feel a bit lethargic... The headaches after intense switches are a nightmare though...

[astraldemise]

[astraldemise]

sea slug saturday lets go

[astraldemise]

sea slug sunday lets go

[ruffboi-mags]

sea slug smonday lets go

[ninetiessquid-deactivated202403]

sea slug stuesday let’s go

[butchfagminotaur]

sea slug swednesday lets go

[communistkirby]

sea slug sthursday lets go

[pluralphobic]

What people think switching is like:

What switching is usually like:

[thenexussystem]

pssst...

you need to have been through trauma to be a system