radioactive decay ahead

The ridiculousness of this is genuinely funnier than any joke I can come up with. What is this, the pop psychology buzzword edition of Mortal Kombat? wtf is a Super Empath? Is there a Super Narcissist? Did they level up after gaining experience points? What are their power moves? Come on, I need answers.

Edit: living for this tag;

I feel like I’ve regressed so much. I’ve learned so much abt my mental health and I hate it with a passion. I used to be focused on having some B disorders, ok, that’s fine, I’m learning to handle it. but ever since that I have gotten so many labels put on me in psych wards and psychiatrists offices: aspd, npd, did, adhd. Like I’m the fucking letters collector idk. Not to mention the extreme depression that meds aren’t really fixing. The insomnia?? The migraines? The flashbacks,? Not to be a pussy but how tf do I live with this? I mean actually live not just barely exist. Ambien, seroquel, Wellbutrin, lyrica, sumatriptan etc… Fucking yikes, friends.

And I’ve gotten to the point where I hate *hate* talking about my mental health. Especially acknowledging the DID and the ptsd- like symptoms. Absolutely not. I can handle being a cluster bee but this trauma bs? I don’t wanna talk about it ever to anyone. I want to seal it shut and ignore how much it’s ruining my life. I want to get violent every time a friend or even my therapist brings it up.

As the smile ran away from his face

"Well, I'm sure that I could be a movie star

Like. Yeah. We also thought we needed to keep tabs on everyone to increase communication. In the end it became too unwieldy. Especially since DID evolves with what you experience all the time.

Microlabels are cool and I fully support anyone who uses them, but figuring out what to call every single structure in your system isn't for us anymore.

Another thing we notice is people who try their best to know who is fronting at all given times. A lot of that comes naturally to us nowadays, but it's also... OK not to know. Especially if you're not focusing on anything system related at the time.

I guess a lot of this boils down to, it's okay not to care. It's okay to go with the flow of things and figure out at your own pace. Identity is fluid, especially if you have a dissociative disorder. You don't HAVE to have everything figured out 100% of the time.

It's okay to take it slow. It's okay to not know. It's okay to just exist for a bit. It's okay to live and experience things beyond being a system.

To all the people who are just starting to comprehend this. You do not need to know and label exactly what is happening in your head all the time. Fuck, we sure don't. And we're happier for it.