the bones dont change

i passed my college session and have every right to mentally unstable for them 🧪

you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.

electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.

Yeah, someone learning to manage their DID is probably going to report more internal communication and voluntary and purposeful switches. They're breaking down the dissociative barriers that prevented those things. It's a sign of recovery, not a sign of faking.

Yeah, someone in treatment for trauma might end up no longer having triggers that they previously told you they had. When you're learning to process and move on from your trauma, the things that remind you of that trauma may not affect you as badly as they did before. It's a sign of recovery, not a sign of faking.

Yeah, someone with schizophrenia may leave a psychiatrist's appointment still believing in the delusion they held walking in. It's hard to shake off delusions, and a psychiatrist can't "make a patient snap out of it" just because they have a medical license. It's an average experience for a disorder like this.

Yeah, someone may have specific symptoms or accommodations without having a diagnosis for a disorder commonly associated with those specific things. Disorders aren't all-or-nothing; you can have some symptoms without having enough for a diagnosis, and sometimes people just need specific accommodations and don't want, need, or can get a diagnosis for an entire disorder. It happens sometimes.

Our delusions are primarily non-distressing and can even be helpful or euphoric, such as our endelic identities and POSIC objects companions.

But also even our distressing ones are actually easier to cope with when we DO believe they're true. The only way we've ever found that works to deal with them is "yeah sure that's real but it's on a layer of the reality baklava I refuse to exist on myself right now" and then we just... go about our day.

(Yeah for some reason we perceive reality as baklava specifically. Multilayered but too sticky for most people to easily move between layers I think was our reasoning.)

Recovery doesn't always even mean "having less of a given symptom" or similar. Recovery is so personal but is typically going to be about experiencing less distress and dysfunction as defined by the person recovering.

(To be clear, this is still just adding to your point, the emphasis is just for extra, well, emphasis in general.)

For some people this is never going to look like typical recovery. Heck, for some people this may in fact look like making peace with even the really difficult symptoms rather than making them less strong or occur less often because the ways of doing those things might be more harmful/hard than the symptoms themselves. This is not being anti-recovery; what works for one person or collective may be harmful for another, and vice versa.