#syscourse things

like, who would willingly offer themselves up to someone who supposedly has the job of making you stop thinking you exist in the way that currently makes sense to you?

just, usual "therapy is not a stick to beat people who disagree with you with" stuff, lol.

To exist, apparently!

Or put another way, it doesn’t have a purpose (unless we want to get into any Purpose of Life stuff, but that’s not quite the question here :V). I know that multiplicity is often a tool of sorts, coping mechanisms etc., but the whole argument that I want to put forward is that sometimes it isn’t, and I don’t need a purpose to exist.

“Psychiatric knowledge matters more than self- and community-based knowledge!” except when it comes to themselves. “What do you mean psychiatry treats those diagnosed with DID poorly? This one specific organisation’s guidelines say something entirely different they shouldn’t!” typically with very little interaction with it themselves, certainly not on the basis of multiplicity.

And I’m not talking, you know, art interpretation or words with multiple potential meanings like “dissociation” (which is why “Endogenic systems exist, but don’t dissociate” is kinda a nonsense statement, by the way). But things like “the DSM saying you require clinically significant dysfunction = all multiplicity is DID, regardless of dysfunction or distress” or “The ISSTD guidelines saying you shouldn’t treat alters like people and that functional multiplicity is an unfortunate second-best choice to full fusion = clinicians are meant to treat alters like people and never push for fusion; stop fearmongering.”