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learning to stop hating yourself isn’t something that happens overnight.

it’s a series of negotiations you make with yourself over your whole life. it’s making one less self-deprecating joke. it’s looking at yourself in the mirror with a little more generosity. it’s forgiving yourself for that little mistake.

it’s not one thing and then you’re good. it’s many small choices you can make that slowly make your brain and body a little less uncomfortable to live with

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Reminders: you are allowed to be angry and sad with people when they hurt you, even if they are sensitive and can't cope well with being told they did something wrong. their sensitivity does not mean you have to bottle up your feelings in that situation. their lack of coping skills does not make you talking about your feelings abusive or bad.

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maybe i can gaslight myself into being okay

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The Daycare Center

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Knaifu loves u very much🔪🩸

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Is there scientific evidence of DID beyond self-reported symptoms? Yes! There’s a lot, actually! Let’s go over the most exciting ones.

DID has biomarkers in the brain! This means that DID changes the brain structure and this has been observed through neuroimaging [1].

These structural changes and neural networks in the brain are very similar but also distinguishable from PTSD [2]! This supports the leading theory that DID is on a continuum with PTSD.

An algorithm was able to spot the difference between healthy brains and brains with DID with up to 73% accuracy (which is significantly higher than what was expected) [3].

Alters have also been observed through neuroimaging! When a DID system switches, different alters activate different neural networks. Even in studies where multiple brain scans were done months apart, the same alters still activated the same neural networks [4].

We have scanned the brains of both people with DID and healthy people instructed to “roleplay” DID and found that the healthy people do not show the same neural networks when roleplaying alters [5].

What this all means: DID is real. I don’t think anyone following my blog doubts that, but having this info is important in spreading awareness and combatting stigma (especially the stigma in the psychiatric field). DID is not something that people are just reporting to experience, it has an observable and distinct impact in the brain.

Keep reading

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I honestly think the best direction @staff can take right now is the one Firefox and DuckDuckGo took back in the day, which is to realize that they're the only major alternative to a bunch of really morally reprehensible options and actively try to become morally decent, then use that as marketing

Like if the messaging around tumblr was "We'll never have an algorithm. We'll never sell your data. We'll never be bought by Elon Musk" and then they actually followed through on it all, they could fill a very desperately needed niche in the market. Rebrand tumblr as the not-predatory social media site and people will actually have a reason to check it out other than nostalgia

I think the consensus of the userbase is moving towards "staff is actually doing a pretty good job now for effectively the first time in history" so I don't think it's too far-fetched that they could go in this direction. And now really is the perfect time to do it

@cyle

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I can’t afford a depressive episode right now but here it is.

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psyduck 🤝 systems

constant headaches

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@/Rat -laughs in DID-

credit

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i love to learn. unfortunately my brain doesn’t like to remember

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Reminder that persecutors aren't automatically "evil" or "bad" some split for a specific reason, usually to help the system but in their own way. Others could hold a lot of trauma and are upset about it. Granted you can still be cautious around persecutors but don't judge someone before you've even actually met them. We aren't all monsters. The same can go for fictives. You may know their source but if you don't know them personally then you don't really know them. We aren't all as simple as our labels.

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