We're Rain; not really one for introductions, but an open book if you'd ever like to come chat. Our DMs and inbox are open, we always welcome the opportunity to chat ^^
We're mostly going to use this pinned post to keep a somewhat tidy list of our favourite resources for both our benefit and others'.
Resources
Our own writing or opinion posts and conversations are listed first, and we've marked anything we find especially helpful to ourselves or others with a đ
Our Writing
Guides and Information
đ Headspace Explorations & Resources
đ how the fuck to process emotions // how the fuck to be normal about emotions
đ Litany Against Impostor Syndrome // We are the Stories We Tell of Ourselves
đ Notes on Switching
đ System Silence, Blurriness, and Identity Confusion
Communication Tips
Do you ever feel like you're faking?
Recommendations for resources on adaptive systems
Opinions
Filtering advice
On the term "suspected system"
Be kind to persecutors
Hosts are not for every system
Headmate dormancy, death, and grieving
Endogenic systems
Sysmedicalism and toxic syscourse
Hangups and acknowledging members
Sanism and medicalism
đ What is real? What is "Correct"? What is "Valid"? What is "Normal"?
Recognising and helping shell headmates
Our System
đ From the Shards
Stained Glass / Kintsugi
Worlds of Iron and Glass
Golden Annex
Rise
Wren
Reva, injured
Names
Plurality 101
đ More Than One
đ The Constant Companions Handbook
A System's Guide
How We Work
Understanding DID
Communication
đ Listening In
đ Is Your System Low-Key Screaming for a Check-In?
Questioning, Exploration
A Beginner's Guide to Finding Headmates
Meet Your Inner Selves: Start System Mapping
If you think you might belongâŚ
Beyond the Basics: Creative and Practical System Mapping
Litmus Tests
Denial, Doubt, Silence, and Dormancy
đ Doubt, Denial, and DID
đ Could I really have DID, or am I imagining it?
đ Why is it so hard to believe I have DID?
đ When Doubt Keeps Coming Back: Additional Patterns in DID
đ The Denial Files
đ Handling System Silence & Dormancy
Resources & Guides
Grounding Toolkit
A Guide to Internal Signatures
Attachment, Emotion, and Plural Parts Work
Your Emotions Don't Need to be "Fixed"
We're Not Just "Dysregulated": When DID/OSDD Gets Ignored
Switching: Advice and Observations
Fronting v.s. Cofronting (etc; infographics)
Types of Fronting & Switching (infographics)
Managing Psychosis Stress
Voluntary, Involuntary, and Triggered Switching (infographic)
Types of Amnesia
Delusions & Reality Checks (flowchart)
You Feel Like Shit - step by step troubleshooting your mental state
Do it scared? Do it badly? Doing It Alone
On Memory Gaps and Blackout Amnesia
DID Is Not Rare
Hydra (zine)
đ When Your Fiercest Part Throws a Chair (Metaphorically?)
đ When the Firestarter Thinks They're the Safety Plan
đ When Feeling Feels Too Dangerous
Trusting Your System When Youâre Not in the Room
When Sleep is a Distant Galaxy
"Help I'm Frozen" - recovering from freeze states
Why Some Parts "Sabotage" Therapy
Surviving DID & OSDD System Overwhelm
When Your System âGoes Rogueâ at Work or School
The Myth of Healed Enough
The Invisible Labor Behind Looking Fine
For Therapists & Clinicians
Plural Competency
Resource Indexes
Compilation: Sanism
đ DID/OSDD Casually Explained Masterpost (infographics)
Projection & Imposition Guides
Miscellaneous Plurality Resources
Helping Headmates Find their Voice
Allies of Plurals (pdf)
Trauma, Self-Care, and BPD Resources
Endogenic Plurality Research
Scholarly Resources on Plurality
Endogenic Hub
Essays / Papers
đ Plurality by Team MJ Barker (PDF)
đ Transfemininity & Dissociative Identity Disorder
đ History of Multiplicity and Plurality (and more)
Maybe crisis was the best thing that could have happened
The phenomenology and treatment of extremely complex multiple personality disorder
You did not shatter
The Door
Claims There Is No Research On Endogenics
đ Preface to the 2023 Edition of the SCID-D























