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multiplicity-positivity · 7 months

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Hey!! Do y'all know where we can find any resources/symptom lists/etc specific to osdd-1b?? We've been questioning whether or not that might be a thing we have going on, but when we try to look into it, most of what we're finding groups DID and OSDD together and emphasizes memory gaps, which we dont really have.

Hey, we’re not a clinician or expert, but from what we know about DID and OSDD:

- there’s really not a huge amount of difference between these two disorders. The differences may be minor or arbitrary, and honestly the difference in diagnosis may vary vastly from clinician to clinician.

- that being said, there’s likely even less of a difference between OSDD-1a and OSDD-1b. We’re not a clinician and we have trouble sometimes understanding clinical language, so researching the differences between these subcategories (without turning to community-created content) has been difficult for us. Vaguely, we understand OSDD-1a to mean a dissociative disorder with amnesia but no parts/alters, and OSDD-1b to mean a dissociative disorder with parts/alters but no amnesia.

These things being said, we’ll include the information we could find. Please don’t disregard resources that have information on OSDD along with DID! Like we said, these disorders are closely linked, so it makes sense that they’re often grouped together.

Trying to find accurate, reliable info on OSDD-1b if anything reminded us how horribly under researched dissociative disorders are. We couldn’t find much that isn’t unsourced in a wiki or written on a personal blog.

^ this is an ask we answered in the past. A lovely system reblogged it with their thoughts and info regarding OSDD 1a and 1b

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^ we really love the CTAD clinic! This video may be useful, though the clinician speaking here does advise against self-diagnosis and proposes renaming OSDD as “minor DID” which we don’t entirely agree with.

Please use critical thinking and your best judgement when exploring these links. You know yourself better than anyone else!

We’re sorry we couldn’t find more up-to-date, reliable, and accurate information for you. This might be something best brought up in therapy or with a qualified professional. Still, we hope something in this list of resources might help you.

💫 Parker and 🐢 Kip

#osdd #did osdd #osdd 1b #osdd resources #long post

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disrealities · 21 days

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I wanted to try my hand at blinkies; I hope I did okay !!

these were inspired by radiotrophicfungi :3

[pt. I wanted to try my hand at blinkies; I hope i did okay! These were inspired by radiotrophicfungi(link) .pt end]

[image ids. seven blinkies with black backgrounds. There are two blinkies on each row, and only one on the bottom.

Top row: Persecutor, Protector.

Row 2: Caregiver, Caretaker.

Row 3: Host, Co-host.

Row 4: Subsystem .ids end]

#„ absolutions ✝︎#blinkies #blinky #rentry graphics #rentry inspo #rentry resources #rentry decor #rentry gif #did system #dissociative system #osdd system #plural system #sysblr

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sysmedsaresexist · 8 months

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could you maybe explain emotional neglect? I am questioning OSDD and don't know what counts as emotional neglect (especially when physical neglect isn't present)

/no pressure

Emotional neglect is a form of child abuse.

Emotional neglect can be defined as a relationship pattern in which an individual’s affectional needs are consistently disregarded, ignored, invalidated, or unappreciated by a significant other or caregiver.

When this type of abuse occurs in childhood, it can lead to significant disruption to mental growth, health, and behaviour in adulthood.

Emotional neglect is the main cause of complex PTSD.

I really, really like the way this therapist writes about it. It's clear, easy to read and understand, and points out a lot of the nuance in experiencing and spotting emotional neglect.

"Many people who experienced Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) describe their childhood as “good” and it’s only on closer examination that they recognize that something important was missing."

"Significant, but invisible, damage is done when parents fail to meet their children’s emotional needs. Childhood Emotional Neglect is the result of your parent’s inability to validate and respond adequately to your emotional needs. Childhood emotional neglect can be hard to identify because it’s what didn’t happen in your childhood. It doesn’t leave any visible bruises or scars, but it’s hurtful and confusing for children."

"Many people who experienced Childhood Emotional Neglect grew up in families without obvious dysfunction. They weren’t beaten or belittled. Their parents were well-meaning but lacked the emotional skills themselves to notice and tend to their children’s feelings. Such parents never learned to cope with their feelings or express them in healthy ways and don’t know how to deal with their children’s feelings either."

"When your emotional needs aren’t met and your internal state isn’t acknowledged, you’ll be disconnected from yourself. You will constantly seek attention and try to prove your worth through clingy or needy behaviors, perfectionism, overworking, and achievements. But these external validations never fix the problem; they never leave you feeling good enough."

#cptsd #emotional neglect basics #did #osdd #actuallydid #actuallyosdd #actuallytraumagenic #actualllymultiple #ptsd #resources #actuallydissociative

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chronicsymptomsyndrome · 5 months

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Knowing and admitting you need help is one thing

but knowing what help you need or how to acquire it or where to even start is a whole other thing entirely.

Anyone have any tips or resources for this?

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justanothersyscourse · 11 months

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Petals of a Rose

An accurate depiction of DID

This is an incredible little video ❤️

It's about a woman trying to date while living with DID, and it really did feel accurate to me. Clever use of cuts really helps portray what it's like to switch in the middle of tasks and how... Loud things can get inside your head. It feels... More real and respectful and than anything else I've ever seen, and it approaches relationships in such a... Well, accurate way.

There are two versions-- a full version, which contains a scene with sexual content and a flashback that some may find triggering, and a redacted version with those scenes cut out. I've watched both and can confirm that you can watch the redacted version without missing anything (it was just so well done).

#actuallydid #actuallytraumagenic #actuallyosdd #did #osdd #ptsd #did system #OSDD system #resources #protectors #we love you

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system-splintered · 1 year

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So I saw this emotional pain scale in another post, I've had it downloaded to my phone for years now but I got reminded of it:

And I had a thought that would make a good DID PSA.

When you have a complex dissociative disorder (DID, OSDD-1, DDNOS, P-DID), you can be at multiple points at this scale at once.

When you have alters, be they full, fragments, or not-very-differentiated, they can and will be in different amounts of emotional pain concurrently. This can get confusing when two parts with conflicting amounts of pain front close to each other, or at the same time.

This presents as: Suddenly breaking down when you felt okay moments before, Suddenly being okay when you were very not okay moments prior, Simulatineously feeling fine and like you're in incredible emotional pain at the same time, Switching back and forth between the two rapidly, and more specific examples could be made person to person as well.

This is also true with physical pain, and fatigue.

(to a lesser degree, if you're exhausted from lack of sleep, or in pain from a serious injury, you probably all will be, but if you're sleeping normally and one (usually depressed) part feels exhausted no matter what, or a part who holds chronic pain is in a lot of pain, others may not feel the same.)

Here's scales for those as well:

Keep this in mind, and try to listen to the parts feeling worse on any scale when you make plans, decide when to treat physical pain, and anything else that effects pain, fatigue, and/or emotional pain levels. Communication is key! If you're not there yet, don't feel bad, it takes time and often therapy with a specialist.

Best of luck to you all!

#dissociative identity disorder #resources #chronic pain #traumagenic system #did osdd #actually did #did #chronic fatigue #did system #PSA

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lefluoritesys · 7 months

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A role made by our partner system (@the-soup-system) that I would like to discuss:

Biographer

A biographer is an alter who records the lives of alters in the inner world (or outer world, but for us, it's inner world). Those are alters who can enter a headspace that allows them to access memories of other alters and either write them down on paper, or record via audio, or something else that this alter uses to capture those memories in the outer world. It doesn't always mean that the alter is a gatekeeper or that they have access to memories of others 24/7. It usually refers to a dissociative state that this alter enters to record the memories they are getting.

My experience with it because while I'm the host, I'm also our biographer (I have like 14 roles, so don't be surprised):

My presence allows other alters to access their memories better, whether they are inner or outer, although mostly inner.

My dissociative state, or the "writer's headspace," is heavy, and getting in and out of it can cause me splits or headaches. However, if everything goes smooth, it just causes tiredness.

I can access memories of other alters on a daily basis. Sometimes, just small details like their roles, families, preferences, etc.

I have many stories from our early teens and even from when we were 6 bodily that turned put to be biographies of people.

My biography allows me to access the memories only if there's consent. There are some I either refuse to get into or the person can set a boundary that they do not want me to know, and I won't.

My biographies allow us to dive deeper into the inner world and find people we forgot existed. There were multiples times when I reread some of my biographies and realized I named people after already existing alters and had no memory that I did so beforehand.

My presence also gives me the power of compulsion. I can either help people tell the truth about themselves, or I can make them answer my questions about them or anything they know.

Our memory gatekeeper can still limit me if they feel the need to do so, which means I am not a memory gatekeeper. I am an outer world manager, but that doesn't interfere with my biographer job.

I wrote a book with 69,220 words and 17 chapters depicting a part of my own inner world story. It also talks about dissociative amnesia, suppressed memories, and other stuff that I didn't realize was a projection of unawareness of DID.

I can tell when alters are lying or telling the truth. Others told me they can't do it as well as me.

I recorded multiple biographies via audio when I couldn't put them on paper.

A while ago, I started a book and accidentally summoned a person to front because I didn't realize I was writing about somebody who is present in our system.

I accidentally gave one of our fictives a very interesting issue because I was projecting dissociative amnesia and my unawareness of DID on paper, and now they gained it and have to live with it. Also with the memories from that fanfiction.

Some things I wrote were more of a "what I wanted it to be" rather than what actually happened.

It helps me connect with alters, especially new alters, because I find out what they've been through, what they hold, what they're like, and therefore I know how to approach and accommodate them. Which I also then show to others (how to work with them, not the memories) and establish communication between them and the rest of the system.

(This is not all but all that I can remember right now)

Our partner system can talk about their experience with biographies, and I will not speak for them. However, they were the ones who introduced me to the term in the first place.

-host

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sillycreacher · 5 months

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graphiic2 for me

art by @tmos-time

#homestuck #rentry graphics #rentry resources #rentry #fictive #did osdd #hom3stuck #sollux captor #sollux introject #introject #did system

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transmasculine · 7 months

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"this system is collectively not cis or straight"

#endos dni #userboxes #userbox #resources #osddid #actuallyosdd #osdd system #actuallydid #did system #this system is collectively not cis or straight

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mooshroomsys · 4 months

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DID/OSDD Glossary

These definitions are all just what I understand of them. I am not a medical professional, just a system posting stuff for systems. I'm definintely not the first person to do this, but this is mostly just for me personally, as most dictionaries/glossaries pertaining to osddid aren't the most helpful for me. These are terms that we as a system often use, and that may be good educational material for singlets. I didn't put in any controversial terms (I believe), because I'm not well educated on them. Some definitions were taken from this very helpful dictionary, make sure to check that out too as it has even more terms!

A lot of text is after the break.

Age Regression - A coping mechanism that both singlets and systems are capable of. The brain regresses back to a younger stage of life in an attempt to relieve stress. Often involuntary.

Age Slider - Someone who's perception of their age changes. They can regress (feel younger) and/or progress (feel older).

Alter - A part of the system. Each alter is a unique individual inside of one collective body.

Amnesia - Memory loss, which can have many different causes and can be seen in many different forms. (See: Emotional Amnesia, Grayout). In DID, there's often amnesia between different alters.

Archivist - See Historian

Blurry - The experience of not knowing which alter is fronting--the current fronter not knowing who they are. This could be because they are a new alter, or they are in a depersonalized state.

Caregiver / Caretaker - (1.) An alter who's role is to take care of other alters in the system, often older alters taking care of littles. (We personally use "caregiver" for this term so as not to be confused with the other definition). (2) An alter who's role is to take care of the body and perform tasks of self care. (We personally use "caretaker" for this definition)

Co-Consciousness / Co-Fronting - When two alters are in control of the body and interacting with the world. Oftentimes one alter is more "in front" than another, but both are actively present and in most systems are capable of communicating with each other.

Consciousness - To be "there" and actively attentive the the world. In DID/OSDD, an alter can be unconscious while another is conscious, and the conscious alter is thought of as the one fronting.

Collective - Alternate term for system

Communications Manager - A term that likely only we use for one of our alters who manages communication between alters and made it possible for us to hear each other and interact more easily. See Internal Self Helper.

Cross-Gender - An alter who's gender is different from the one assigned to the body.

Depersonalization - Detatchment from oneself, described as feeling like a 3rd-Person observer of one's own life. Can also be a state of blurriness and not knowing who one is.

Derealization - When the world around someone is foggy/seemingly unreal. Experiences feel altered and warped.

Dissociation - A mental disconnection from the world that can result in the loss of time, memory, thoughts. etc.

Dissociative Amnesia - Memory gaps involving the inability to recall important personal information that wouldn't typically be forgotten, often due to a state of dissociation.

Dissociative Identity DIsorder (DID) - A trauma-based disorder that is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identity states that can take control at different times and experience varying amounts of amnesia between switches.

Dormancy - When an alter is in an inactive state, unable to front or communicate with others. Can be thought of as a nap or break, though dormancy can possibly be permanent.

Driving - Another word for fronting.

Emotional Amnesia - Inability to associate emotions with certain events, having memory of an event but having no personal emotions connected to it. Another alter may hold those emotions if they experienced the event.

Faceclaim - The way an alter percieves themself in the innerworld.

Factive - An alter who's based on a real life person, because that person carries traits that could be helpful to the system.

Fictive - An alter who's based on a fictional character, because that character carries traits that could be helpful to the system.

Fronting - When an alter is in control of the body and actively interacting with the world.

Frontlocked - When an alter feels stuck fronting, and can't seem to switch out even if they'd like to.

Fusion - When two or more alters fuse into one. Final Fusion is a newer term used to describe all alters in a system fusing into one individual to become a singlet.

Gatekeeper - An alter that controls switching or access to the front.

Headmate - Another word for alter.

Historian - An alter who has access to all memories in detail, but they may often have emotional amnesia.

Host - An alter that fronts much more often than others and often takes care of day-to-day tasks. There can be multiple hosts in a system.

Innerworld / Headspace - Both singlets and systems can have innerworlds, but it's not guarunteed for either. The internal world is used as a place where alters are thought to be when not fronting, and where they can all interact with each other. The fronting alter can sometimes visit the headspacen through meditation or dreams. Innerworlds can be as small as a few rooms to as big as mutiple universes, it all depends on the system.

Integration - When alters reduce barriers between each other. This is overall a helpful thing for the alters and improves communication.

Internal Mapper / Scout - An alter that explores and maps out out the system's innerworld.

Internal Self-Helper - An alter with an extensive understanding of different alters and how they work together, and other systematic knowledge. They work to maintin the stability of the system, and usually don't front.

Introject - An alter who's faceclaim, name, personality, and/or role is representative or an outside source. Not all introjects are very similar to their source, though some can be. Fictives and Factives are two kinds of introjects.

N/A

Little - An alter who's age is considered very young / a child alter. Usually considered to be 10 or younger.

Masking - When an alter acts differently, and more like how an oblivious person would expect the so-called "main personality" to act; see Presenting Self

Multiplicity / Multiple - To be plural, another way of being a system. To be multiple is to collectively, as a system, have multiple identities.

NPC - "Non-Playable Character" - a filler person in the innerworld, serving a mundane purpose. Not an actual alter.

Otherwise Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD) - Dissociative disorder with multiple subtypes. Considered to be "almost DID," as it meets almost all critera to be DID.

OSDD-1a - Alters are all quite similar, often being different ages or "modes" of the same person. Amnesia is often experienced

OSDD-1b - Distinct alters that don't experience amnesia between switches (can experience emotional amnesia).

Part - Another word for alter; a member of the system.

Partial DID - Disorder that is like DID, but one alter is dominant and normally functions. Other less dominant alters may front at times, but their executive control is limited and short-lived.

Passive Influence - An unintentional effect on thoughts, emotions, or actions of an alter who is fronting from one or more alters not fronting.

Persecutor - An alter who is known to cause harm to the system and others around them. The negative behavior isn't always on purpose, and is often just the effect of the alter being hurt by trauma.

Personality - Outdated term for alter, no longer used because of connotations leading people to incorrectly believe that alters are less than people.

Plural - Another word for multiple/to be a system.

Polyfragmanted - Commonly used to describe a system with a large number of alters (50/100+). Also used to describe systems that may have a lower stress tolerance, mass splititng, subsystems, complex internal worlds, etc.

Presenting Self - (1)The so-called "main personality" that alters attempt to act as, trying to convince others of being a singlet. (2)The alter that presents itself to the system's medical proffesional/therapist.

Protector - An alter whose role is to protect the system and each alter. There are many different kinds: Emotional, physical, internal, etc.

Pseudomemories - Basically fake memories. Things that an alter (fictive or not) can recall despite them never happening. Not system-specific, I believe, but our osdd has caused some pseudomemories so we thought it would be nice to put.

PTSD/C-PTSD - [Complex] Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing a traumatic event. They can be triggered into having flashbacks of events, and this can include physical and/or emotional reactions. DID/OSDD is often connected to this due to both being disorders that result in trauma.

N/A

Selective Mutism - A severe anxiety disorder where a person is unable to speak in certain social situations. Some alters could be selectively mute while others are not.

Singlet - Someone who is not a system, and whose personality states all merged normally. They do not share a body with any other identities, and function without alters.

Split - When the collective is facing a large overwhelming situation/trigger (stress, memories, traumatic events, dissociation, etc.) and to deal with it and function again, a new alter(s) splits off. This is involuntary.

Subsystem - Used to describe a group of alters within a system.

Switch - When an alter switches out with another alter, changing who is fronting.

System - A term for all of the alters collectively in one body/mind.

Therian / Nonhuman - Someone who is aware of being in a human body, but who feels connected and like an animal in every other way, and will behave like one. Alters can be animals or hybrids, and their faceclaims can reflect this.

Trauma - A very distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual and stunts their functionability until they can recover and work through it (not get rid of, trauma can not be disposed of, only coped with).

Trauma Holder - An alter who holds memories and is attatched to trauma that may have caused a split or the initial forming of the disorder.

Trigger - (1) Anything that can set off any thoughts that can disturb a person or bring them back to some part of a traumatic experience. (2) Anything that sets off any kinds of thoughts, depending on if the trigger is positive or negative. Causes for an emotional and sometimes physiscal response from whoever is being triggered. (3) In DID/OSDD, a trigger can cause a certain alter to front, whether it be positive or negative.

Unspecified Dissociative Disorder (UDD) - flexible diagnosis either meaning: (1)A temporary diagnosis for when an exact diagnosis is unknown or can't be said a the time. (2) Disorder with many OSDD/DID criteria but not actually fitting into any category

#osdd system #osddid #dissociative identity disorder #other specified dissociative disorder #osdd #system stuff #system resources #multiplicity #informational #osdd 1b #did osdd #plural system #plurality #actually plural #plural community

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multiplicity-positivity · 1 year

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Info and Resources for Questioning Systems

Our old post with resources is out of date and doesn’t have that much information, so we’ve decided to put this together! Please let us know if we should make any corrections or if you have resource ideas you’d like us to add to this post.

NOTE: Before we get started, it’s so important to mention that every system should rule out trauma first before considering other origins. This is because complex dissociative disorders can present in covert ways, and function by hiding trauma from some alters. Even if you’re certain you’re not traumatized, please research and understand complex dissociative disorders before learning about other origin types. It’s possible to not remember or misunderstand trauma. Ruling it out first will save you a lot of difficulty and heartache in the future!

NOTE 2: As a system, we understand the terms “tulpa” and “tulpamancy” are cultural appropriation, and believe that as a community a different term for these systems should be selected. However, until that happens, we will continue to link handy resources for these sorts of systems.

Now, onto the resources!

This is not a complete list! If there’s any resource you’ve found useful and would like us to add, please get in touch!

Websites:

CDD (DID and OSDD-1) Specific:

Beauty after Bruises, and especially their article on myths and misconceptions about DID

Multiplied by One, a DID nonprofit that has a wealth of resources on dissociative disorders and CPTSD (and offering support for those in need!)

First Person Plural, another great nonprofit

ISSTD’s public resources

The Cleveland Clinic’s page on DID

Survivors’ Network (not to be confused with the Survivors’ Network Discord) page on DID

The National Alliance on Mental Illness’ info on dissociative disorders

DIS-SOS, a blog with tons of info on trauma, dissociation, and living with both

osdd.one, a site with information on complex dissociative disorders with a focus on OSDD-1

NAMI Michigan’s DID fact sheet

The Healthy Place’s blog on Dissociative Living

Non-CDD Specific:

What is Plurality/Multiplicity? by YoppVoice

More than One

Tulpa.io, Tulpanomicon, and Tulpa.info, all sites where tulpas, thoughtforms, willomates, and their creators can share their experiences

The Daemon Page

Daemonism 101

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Understanding Multiplicity

Plurality-Resources (traumagenic, not CDD, specific)

The Plurality Playbook, a resource for plurality in the workplace (for employees and managers)

Endogenic Hub

The Dissociative Initiative includes resources for both CDD systems and others who experience multiplicity

Soulbonding Info Carrd

Pluralpedia, a plurality wiki created and maintained by systems for systems

Podcasts:

The System Speak Podcast

The Bag System Podcast

Tumblr Blogs:

@pluraldeepdive

@system-society

@dear-systems

@plural-culture-is

@subsystems

@plurals-helping-plurals

YouTubers:

Pink Sugar Fairies

The Alexandrite System

FragmentDID

The Rings System

The CTAD Clinic

(psst! if you’re an endogenic/not-trauma formed system YouTuber, please let us know! we’d love to check out your videos and add your channel to this list!)

Other:

This Google Drive folder has 13 books on mental health, with a focus on dissociative disorders and trauma.

This Google Drive folder also has a bunch of great resources (keep in mind there are some repeats in both drives)

UTEP’s Mental Health Awareness Training infographic on dissociative disorders

Our own posts on Understanding DID, Establishing Contact with Headmates, Dissociative Amnesia, and Depersonalization vs. Derealization

Seeking help through therapy:

(specifically specialists in dissociative disorders)

Psychology Today’s search page for finding therapists who specialize in dissociative disorders

Carolyn Spring’s article, How to find a therapist for a dissociative disorder

The ISSTD’s Find a Therapist page

Websites we do NOT recommend can be found here! Note: some of the resources we’ve linked here have their own links to websites we don’t recommend. Please use your best judgement when visiting sites, and understand that we as a system DO NOT endorse the sites listed in the link above, even if we’ve included resources that link to those sites.

We hope y’all are able to find some of this useful! Again, please let us know if you have any resources you’d like us to add to this list. Thanks so much, everyone!

#multiplicity #pluralgang #plurality #actuallyplural #endogenic #traumagenic #plural resources #system resources #dissociative identity disorder #did osdd #osdd did #long post #questioning system #trauma mention #abuse mention

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