Lawliets system

[Text: This system/user has psych ward trauma.]

[Text: This user has psych ward trauma.]

[Text: This user has psych ward trauma.]

- neglect (physical and/or emotional)

- living in an emotionally unstable environment (for example, having parents that fight often)

- any kind of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse (not just from parents)

- consistent bullying

- etc

treat them like their own people

literally talk to them like any other person

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

[Text: This system has OC fictives and that's okay!]

[Text: This alter struggles with being hypersexual due to stigma.]

[Text: This alter has a history with self harm.]

[Text: This system has Major Depressive Disorder.]

[Text: This system has creepypasta introjects.]

- It's normal for communication to be bad, it's okay!

- It's normal for so many to have no internal communication, that's okay!

- You won't instantly know everything or every part/alter/piece of your system. That's okay! It's unrealistic to think that everyone will know everything about their system.

- Struggling to track symptoms is difficult; that's okay and normal!

- Feeling fake/denial is normal!

- It's okay if you don't have an innerworld. It's not a requirement.

- It's okay to hate your symptoms. I do too.

- It's okay to have good days just as it is to have bad one's.

- It's okay to celebrate even the smallest good thing in your life.

To every person with a CDD, I hear you. What your experiences are is okay and normal for what you have. Whether that be purely because of your CDD or co-morbid conditions.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.