#(it’s hard to explain the difference between CPTSD and like a panic attack or a depression)

[malkaleh]

I keep trying to write an update and then being embarrassed about it and feeling like I’m trauma dumping on people by updating and I just..I know it’s on me to manage my crap, I know. I am trying (not very well but I’m trying) and it’s just…I don’t know. I don’t even know.

[rambling-crerchur]

"Plurality" ie fragmented psyche/alters do not exist outside of DID and OSDD, which are extremely rare dissociative disorders. Patty has /explicitly stated/ she does not have DID, considering her background history of abuse it's likely that she DOES have some sort of disorder that causes disassociation, I don't think she's lying about that - yes, there is a difference between the two. PTSD/CPTSD are disorders that cause dissociative affects, stress disorders, BPD and other personality disorders, many forms of anxiety, you can google it. "Plurality" as these people on the internet want to define it, is not an actual disorder that follows any known psychological pattern: it is new age make believe that has a long history on the internet. I understand tumblr is a very left leaning, very accepting, very progressive site: but you cannot "valid" your way out of saying you somehow have /all the symptoms/ of an extremely rare, hard to diagnose, often hidden, personality disorder that is explicitly the result of horrific child abuse and is extremely distressing to people who suffer with it while /simultaneously not having it/. Anyone trying to say they have alters without DID/OSDD is roleplaying or deluding themselves, and you can see that by the way a lot of terms from 2016 kin spaces on tumblr seamlessly moved into 'plurality' ex: sourcemates, doubles, source memories/source trauma. It's kinning with a dose of 'you can't tell me I'm not actually (x) cause I have a disorder." It's stealing medical terms for yourself DID as a disorder has a long and extremely complicated and controversial history related directly to the satanic panic and ritual abuse therapy, which is way beyond the scope of this ask to even try to explain. There are many people faking who will simply say they have it and are totally actually diagnosed, when they don't and aren't, but that's again beyond the scope of this ask and isn't entirely relevant as Taxxon has explicitly stated she doesn't have DID/OSDD. Plurality is an internet subculture that has become an easy way to garner attention/excuse bad behavior/feel like you matter in a community. These people are very defensive of their community, to the point where they're willing to attack the leading researchers of DID/Dissociative trauma disorders in the country, people who work with the worst cases of complex PTSD, because they dared to say that some people are in fact /lying/ when imitative DID has been a known issue for years. It got to the point where the hospital took down their videos about it because they were tired of angry 20-somethings shrieking at them. If you're curious, there's a verge article about it called. "The fight over what’s real (and what’s not) on dissociative identity disorder TikTok"

So yeah, DID itself is complex and often faked, but plurality is literally just new age bullshit like shifting, and I'm tired of zoomers falling for it lol.

Longer anon but def worth a read