#system research

'but there are no proven research/clinical study articles to support endogenic systems/non-disordered plurality'-

Here's a series of articles on studies done by a team of PHD and Top School Psychologists published in volumes such as Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy Volume 31, and the Journal of Childhood and Adolescent Trauma.

Clinical Psychology & Psychotheraply Volume 31 is overseen and edited by Paul Emmelkamp who is a member of the board of the ICD, who has approved a few of these articles for study and inclusion in the ICD-11.

Article One: Conceptualizing multiplicity spectrum experiences: A systematic review and thematic synthesis Zara Eve, Sarah Parry, Kim Heyes

Article Two: Young people's narratives of hearing voices: Systemic influences and conceptual challenges Sarah Parry ClinPsyD, Eve Loren, Filippo Varese

Article Three: Article Six: “Here’s Dissociative Identity Disorder, and we’re not that”: a constructivist grounded theory exploration of multiplicity experiences - Zarah Eve, Sarah Parry, Kim Heyes

Article Four: Article Three: Exploring the Utility and Personal Relevance of Co-Produced Multiplicity Resources with Young People - Zara Eve, Sarah Parry, Gemma Myers

Article Five: Exploring emerging multiplicity and psychosocial functioning: A constructivist grounded theory study Zara Eve

be against endogenic systems all you want. your opinions aren't my responsibility! but i am SICK of seeing the argument that there's no clinical studies or supporting information for them.

Turns out, there’s quite a bit of work into how autistic people are traumatized easier. Mild stress gets handled similarly to trauma in autism, and those mild stress memories form comparably to ptsd memories. It’s also been shown that the resulting fear responses and conditioning are handled abnormally in autism, and tend to be much more intense and over generalized

There’s also the matter of types of trauma that the majority of autistics go through. We’re used to thinking of trauma as major negative events, but smaller instances and lack of protective factors are also significant. Sensory issues are one area where autistics don’t just “get used to it”, and it’s perceived as very distressing. It’s also important to note that traumatic instances autistic individuals reported were frequently not covered by typical questionnaires, which includes masking/camoflauging, as well as abusive therapy techniques (covered in first link of sentence). It’s also worth noting that difficulty with familial and social bonds removes one common source of protection, and especially early on autism can lead to disruptions in caregiver attachment which both increase chances of dissociation (same link + this one

Unfortunately, I cannot find any good information on what factors influence the way CDD systems present or function, besides the common sense fact that additional disorders influence functioning. This (free!) book chapter covers a lot on causes of dissociation in autism and what makes autistics more prone to it, but talk of identity disruption is fairly limited and doesn’t look at systems.

i’m trying to find information/hear personal experiences of systemhood from others, if any of you would be so kind as to help me!

particularly, i would like to hear from those who identify as endogenic or otherwise non-trauma formed systems. of course, i would love to hear from trauma-formed systems as well! it’s just that i am one, and so that’s the community i have been most involved with & heard from already.

feel free to DM me anonymously if you don’t want to share publicly. i won’t post anything. my aim is to hear from others so that i can form my own opinions, figure out the right direction to go for independent research, and to simply understand others more.

thank you very much in advance, and i hope you all are having a wonderful day 💙

Here we will post polls, surveys, ect, that are aimed at gathering information about systems, headmates, innerworld, ect.

This blog is aimed at being completely neutral as to get information on all types of systems. A disclaimer though most things will be separate such as having two polls asking the same thing but one being for OSDDID/traumagenic systems and another being non-traumagenic systems. We do that because having your system formed from trauma and having your system not formed from trauma are most of the time very different experiences.

A better explanation of how we plan to categorize the polls/surveys is in this ask.

Another disclaimer is that both mods are OSDDID systems and because of that the main type of language we will use on this blog will be lean more towards disordered language. Such as saying system instead of a plural person. We will however refer to alters as headmates on this blog. But if anyone has suggestions on other words or terms we can use we will be glad to hear it.

We welcome asks and ideas to help us decide what surveys or polls to post! Such as asking for us to do a survey on headmates with blue hair and how common they are. While we do prefer the suggestions to be serious we will accept some silly surveys like that. We also encourage criticism and constructive criticism as we are not perfect and will mess up from time to time and we want to be let known when we do. (Preferably nicely but it’s okay if not).

You may notice that this blog is very similar to @/pluralityresearch and that is because it is somewhat based off the main idea of their blog. We are making our own because we don’t like how biased the blog is towards non-traumagenic systems. So we made our own blog to be (the best we can be) completely neutral. That away everyone can participate without feeling like they are being ignored or looked over. Also due to recent events on that blog please know that if we ever mess up that we welcome people letting us know and constructive criticism.

Last part is our DNI. We don’t want transplural or transid people doing our surveys and we also don’t want @/jess-total-mess or those affiliated with them to interact either. (This is for our own mental health)

Tags for reach (let us know if you’d like to be removed!)

Okay we have finally returned! Our mental health had gone to shit for a while and so we took a break from the blog but we are back now and are ready to have more surveys put out along with some of the statistics of the exomemory survey (though that may take us a couple of days to get out)! Though right now we will be posting a survey that give y’all the options to submit ideas to us for other surveys you’d like to see.

So this next survey is meant to see what patterns there are with systems with exomemories. It is mainly to see what origins (we did not use genic terms however), what body ages, and what ratio of introjects are most likely to have them. We highly encourage taking the survey even if you do not experience exomeories at all as it helps with seeing what patterns there might be.

We know that death in systems is a very controversial topic but as someone who has experienced a kind of death in the innerworld I wanted to see if others experienced it as well. This survey is for those in a system who have died in some form, it will ask how you died, why did you die (if there is a known reason), and what happened after the death.