#dissociative system

[autopsycollective]

rlly wish the body would change to match whoever fronts :(( ❦

[boxesforsys]

This x holds relationship trauma userboxes! Click for quality

[cemetery-drive-sys]

I love how botw / totk and wind waker both use cell shading, it's so cool and it shows how versatile it can be. Wind waker is more cartoony with less details and bigger areas of a single color for the shading, but in botw / totk it's a lot more detailed. You can really see it in link's hair (left), it's just so interesting to me i love it sm :3

I also love how in ww they put Link's facial features over his hair, ww link is the most expressive one we've gotten so far and it really makes it more noticeable and charming

I love loz :3

-🕸

[zero-templates]

Blended system emoji userboxes !

-> requested by anon : emojis here, here, (both by @tontoemojis) and here (by @m0dem0n) : read my pinned before interacting

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[ Image ID : Ten userboxes with varying images of system themed emojis on the left and text on the right. The five boxes on the left read "this system is blended" and the five on the left read "these alters are blended". End ID ]

[b1gr4tm4n]

we've been having some of our system members write letters to our therapist so she can start to get acquainted with them! i am so proud of us for opening up to her :)

- jasper 🦡

[anti-endo-safe-space]

i hate when pro endos reblog my posts to "debunk misinformation" and REBLOG IT SAYING DID CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT TRAUMA??? LIKE NO IT CANT??? and i have endos and pro endos on my dni anyway. the fact they disrespect boundaries for their own agenda is enough to show you what their community is about.

Abuse mention ahead!!

Yeah we have that happen a lot to our posts or they'll quote us or some shit. DID requires trauma. It does not require it to be abuse, cases have been found of systems who formed from just being violently taken from parents (that's honestly part of why we split in the first place).

Endos and pro endos don't care, there's literally one who will hunt down people with dni's because they brag how stupid they are meanwhile if you call them out they sit there and try to trigger and bully soooo what do we know.

[thehellishcollective]

'hey, do you remember when-'

NONONONONONONONONONONONONO

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[seraphim-coinz]

Bodytroject

A flag for introjects that are sourced from the body itself. sys exclu <3

The skin tones of the flag are to represent a range of human/body skin tones.

(I apologize for the lack of range, I wanted to keep this simple.

[autopsycollective]

not wanting to achieve final fusion is ok,, it’s your disorder so you decide whats best for you ❦

[caintooth]

seeing people my age talk about how scared they are of memory loss, which they only associate with old age, is so surreal to see as a 24 year old who has actively experienced memory loss for a long time now

there are causes for memory loss besides dementia and alzheimer’s, i hope y’all know that. dissociative disorders, trauma, brain injuries, thyroid problems, even just stress and lack of sleep can fuck up your ability to store, process, and access memory. and that’s just a few of the many causes i can think of off the top of my head right now.

please stop treating disabled people like some scary “other” that you might become only in the distant, decades-away future. we are your age, too. you may become one of us sooner than you know. stop acting like memory loss marks the end of a life, when so many of us have so much living left to do!

[cemetery-drive-sys]

We were in the shower and someone in headspace (idfk who tbh) just kept saying "when the dissociative disorder is dissociative disordering" over and over (we heard that from a Tumblr post)

Also Tumblr wouldn't let us post for a sec idk why 😭

- 🕸 and 🌸

[rustybutterknife]

Microdosing polyamory by dating a system

[thattheater-kid]

Here’s my metaphor for systemhood that I tell my singlet friends.

Imagine you’re playing a first person video game. You have the controller, you control your character. It’s a normal first person game. You are an alter, the character is the body. This is fronting.

Other people live with you. Sometimes, they come into the room and sit and watch while you play. They sometimes try to guide you, give you advice on what to do next. They don’t always agree, and they can argue with each other. Other times they scream at you that you’re doing everything wrong and you suck at this game. This is co-consciousness.

Imagine how distracting it would be for people around you to tell you what to do, or to scream at each other or at you, even if they have good intentions. It wouldn’t be easy to focus on your game, would it?

Then sometimes, something happens in the game that prompts you to hand off the controller to someone else so they can play and you get a break. This is (some types of) switching. This can be good.

Other times, someone rips the controller out of your hand or fights you for it. This is (other types of) switching. And sometimes, six other players hook up their controllers, but there’s only one character to play as. So all of you have your controllers, but you’re all trying to play the same character. This is cofronting.

Imagine how difficult that would be. Imagine how hard it would be to try and play a game while someone is trying to take the controller from you, or while six other people are trying to play too.

There are also times that nobody is playing, or you can’t decide who should play. What’s happening to the character in the game? What are they doing if no one is playing? This is dissociation. The character is doing nothing. They’re stuck.

This is the best metaphor I have come up with for being a system. It’s something a lot of people get because they’ve played games before.

[c-0-yote-teeth]

fuck it we ball

[collectivewarmth]

one of the most important things about dissociative identity disorder and generally being a system that i wish people would understand is that it truly isn’t as cut and dry as it may seem for member count.

you’ll see people who say they have “six alters” and then immediately assume it’s six fully fleshed out equal individuals with no confusion or fuzziness regarding identity. that’s simply not true in a majority of cases, as i have seen.

most systems still VERY much deal with confusion regarding potential splits, go through dissociative episodes where they’re unsure of who they are, sometimes feel no attachment towards any identities, feel like they might have split and then suddenly that person is gone, unsure if alters they haven’t heard from often have gone dormant, not sure how to react when alters do come out of dormancy, etc.

it’s not a fun feeling and it’s genuinely unfair in certain situations to force systems to list every single alter to you with full certainty, as if it will never change. because it will. for so many different reasons, systems will grow, they will shrink, they will fuse, they will develop. you can’t expect the person with the dissociative disorder and lack of core identity to be able to keep up a perfected list of forever, it’s simply impossible. you may have alters who stick with you, but that doesn’t mean changes won’t happen.

and systems who may be reading this — please don’t feel bad. you are not a hassle, you are not a headache, and you are not an inconvenience for simply coping with something like this. it’s out of your control and the only thing you can do is continue to cope to find ways to help yourself retrain from these reactions. please don’t allow yourself to be harmed by others who don’t understand what you are going through. there are people who will accept and love you for who you are, all of you.

past, present, and future.

[thenightsystem]

Most people only get 4 stress responses: Fight, Flight, Fawn, and Freeze.

people with DID unlock the secret fifth one: Forget

-host