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Types of Amnesia

Diagram created by me

General criteria for amnesia:

Memory loss

Confusion

Inability to recognize familiar figures/places

Difficulty recalling names or places

Not remembering where you went

Worser ability to remember things that had happened Post on how to handle these kinds of amnesia: click here!

Generalized Amnesia Where a person completely forgets everything about themself and have no recollection of what, where, and who they spoke to. This can describe a blackout switch and may still recognize who they are.

Localized Amnesia Where a person is unable to recall a specific/series of event from the whole, which creates an incomplete picture of the situation. For example, remembering childhood but not the abuse.

Selective Amnesia Where a person only lost some and retain the rest, forgetting parts yet not all of them. This can describe greyouts as it grasps some information/sensory yet not enough to tell what exactly happened. One example is playing the phone and unable to recall what occured, only to jump its memory right to being at bed.

Emotional Amnesia Where a person has an intact memory and it's details on what had happened, but do not remember what the event feels like (e.g. was scared, happy, etc.). One description is that you're watching something that didn't happen to you, because you don't feel like being in the scene itself.

Continuous Amnesia Where a person fails to retain full parts of the event/day, for a set period of time (can vary from minutes to days) and create an accumulative, small bits of selective amnesias, continuously, leaving many gaps in a chronological timeline. This usually happens in times or stress, or abuse.

Fragmented Amnesia Where a person has an unrelated, and/or disjointed memories that does not go with the timeline's order, creating confusion and difficult to grasp the cohesive picture of what truly happened. Emotional amnesia may be present in this type. Bonus for systems:

Amnesia barriers Where a person fronting is not able to recall other alter's memories, which is a form of retrograde amnesia and compartmentalization. Because the fronter will only retain any information before switching out with the next one, the rest experiences anterograde amnesia as it cannot form and remember those memories, unless being coconcious or cofronting (even though, this is not always guaranteed).

Take notes that amnesia can still happen outside system things due to comorbidities like anxiety disorders or depression, this does mean systems are bound to experience more amnesia compared to non-systems folks out there.

Do you have any discussions about this? Or would like to describe your own way of seeing these different types of amnesia? Or have more to add? Feel free to tell them here!

- j

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Being sick is just like a free trial of being a singlet lol

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Every now and again I think of this Sarah tweet and just stare into the middle distance.

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affirmations

i am so good at pretending to be human

my human disguise looks basically just like the real thing

i can withstand the feeling of my wings and tail being cramped for several hours in a row

it's really normal or even cute when i growl

i can easily partake in human conversations

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plural culture is having your headmates feel more familial to you than your actual family does a lot of the time.

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Images that you would probably not see again @thoughtstherapy

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"Oh, yeah, we have X, Y, and Z."

*distinct feeling of "no" coming somewhere from the headspace*

"What do you mean 'no', brain? Brain, what do you mean 'no'?? Brain???"

-host

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I see a lot of systems, when they first find out about fragments, go "oh I wonder if this is (headmate)" or "is this (headmate)?" And obviously, a lot of that comes from the way that system members interact with each other – we're not always present to see these posts or make these discoveries about ourselves, so it makes sense that whenever one headmate sees something (namely, a descriptive term) that might be relevant to another headmate, they speculate on whether that other headmate actually fits whatever they're looking at. But y'know... You guys can just ask your headmates if they consider themselves fragments. You don't have to decide for them whether they are or aren't. All headmates have the right to choose how to describe themselves, and that includes whether they describe themselves as fragments or not. Just give them the info, tell them your suspicions, and let them come to their own conclusions. Don't turn a descriptive term into a prescriptive one. Respect your headmates' autonomy.

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My perception of time is so off right now, 6:30 took 5 minutes. Like, I was actively doing things and time didn't move.

-Wally

P.s. I'm so sleep deprived I thought I'd managed to tap into the speedforce until I literally watched the fan rotating and saw the minute tick over.

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ever doubting yourself and your experiences as plural? Just got really badly fake claimed? or imposter syndrome hitting really bad? just remember this:

YOU know yourself BETTER than anyone else ever will. YOU will always be the only one to truly know whats going on and it will NEVER be up to anyone else to make those decisions for you or to tell you how you should be feeling or acting.

just be yourself, you are real, you are really going through this and you are not alone.

be safe and be happy.

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My personal flavor is "fall-out from years of my dad 'jokingly' ripping on all my interest that didn't align with his and asking constantly when I was going to grow up."

so who else gets irrationally afraid and embarrassed about their interests being known to people in real life

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Bro being a system is wild because like, who tf left the haft eaten turkey sandwich on the nightstand, who bought the boots that don't fit, who the hell is even writing this, who threw out the entire chair to our desk, who tf thought it would be a good idea to give the cat catnip, who even am I right now, who knew someone liked peanut butter so much they left a haft eaten jar out, who wrote an entire book in the notes app, who filled the gallery with memes, who told our life story in a random person's dms, why is the changer to the phone chewed up because it sure as hell wasn't the cat, who had the headphones last because they could be in the backrooms by now, who and what even am I, who thought it was funny to throw away my favorite jacket, who redid our simply plural, who is screaming, who where what and why is happening?

It's wild bro, like secret santa everyday

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Explaining DID Badly: Introjects

It's when your brain spots a person or thing and commits copyright infringement.

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Trauma Information

Processing trauma

Traumatic memories get stored in the brain Differently

Trauma processing information

Steps for Managing Emotional Flashbacks

4 Types of Trauma Responses in Childhood

Relapses can possibly be a Seasonal Trauma occurrence

Three Stages of Trauma from Childhood Abuse

It’s likely you’ll feel the worst of your trauma long after it’s over

Feeling like you’re not normal because of trauma

Anger is vital in resolving trauma

Causes of Trauma

List of trauma symptoms caused by Childhood Abuse

How long term childhood abuse develops into trauma (comic)

Loss of support and community after trauma adds to it

Isolation from support can decide whether a person develops ptsd

Abandonment, rejection and isolation causes trauma

Symptoms of Trauma

Magical Thinking is a symptom of Childhood Trauma

Memory loss is a symptom of trauma and dissociative disorder

Inability to keep your space clean and tidy can stem from Trauma

Chronic Exhaustion comes from Trauma and is traumatic

Constant guilt, shame, and fear of failure can be caused by Trauma

Constant guilt for things that were done to you is an indicator of Trauma

Trauma from abuse will create a compulsion to Act Normal

Trauma will make you feel like you’re losing your future

Trauma makes you feel like you just ‘need to snap out of it’

Trauma can feel like ‘it wasn’t that bad’ even when it was

Childhood trauma can make you sense other people’s emotions

If you wish you suffered violence and trauma, it’s likely you’re already traumatized

Health risks

Trauma will mess up your immune system

Trauma can cause breathing problems and heart palpitations

Trauma will mess up your digestive system

C-ptsd can cause chronic pain and chronic exhaustion

Trauma can make it difficult both to sleep and to stay awake

If you’re struggling with trauma, here’s a link to Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD, and if you believe your trauma comes from abuse, here’s a link to checklists for parental/relationship abuse.

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executive dysfunction be like *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels bad* *wants to do something* *doesnt do it* *feels ba

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101 ways to become more grounded that aren't just naming five things you can see, touch, or hear, taken from the Finding Solid Ground program workbook