#Best DID Provider

[dreamyblanket]

Sorry guys, wafer on the brain, it's terminal u.u

Anyway, I'll elaborate on this in the tags bc omg I'm going to yap your metaphorical ear off.

[mlobsters]

jared padalecki and jensen ackles nashville con 2024 - main panel

[94erz]

j-hope @ Audemars Piguet

[ashtcnirwin]

I wrote Glory Days about a time when things felt simpler, the early days of touring and experiencing the explosion of 5SOS front on with my best friends, those times are in the past, and although those times blessed me with everything I get to experience now in the present, I can comfortably say they were truly the glory days that ill cherish for the rest of my life

[maharellasa]

me selecting a lavellan inquisitor who romanced solas and promised to save him during the story selection mode in cc

[cementcornfield]

Is it fair to say that Tee is a need?

Tee is a need, yes.

If the front office isn't able to make that work, would you be disappointed in that?

I'd be very disappointed in that, yeah.

[gh0st-0f-luke]

an epistolary journey through nie huaisang’s highly questionable therapy notes as he counsels firefighters!wangxian, who are not a couple but definitely probably need counseling (read her on ao3!)

[ameliapodcast]

[baltears]

kinda random but i really loved the callbacks to old characters in 5x07 and particularly the way they really honored that joe was genuinely a more morally complicated person in the early seasons of the show (especially s1) and really only completely gave up the ghost as far as ever trying to actually do the right thing at the end of s4. ethan wants to believe the victims but also feels some lingering loyalty to joe as his friend who was always decent to him and tries to hedge that both could be true. paco still loves joe because joe was his only lifeline when he desperately needed one, and joe still loves paco as much as he's capable of.

like yeah that's of course all very morally complicated, for instance paco abandoning beck when she was in obvious danger out of blind loyalty to joe was a heartbreaking moment because you see the depth of his panic and you know who he's going to choose as soon as beck asks him to pick between her and joe. but joe did have those connections at one point and they were real. he used to have more access to his humanity, he used to be able to form some genuine bonds with people. he was always masking and hiding who he was, but only partially. his old friends didn't want to believe he could do terrible things because they knew and loved the part of him that treated them well and wanted good things for them and didn't wish them any harm.

in real life situations this kind of thing (letters to judges asking for leniency, etc) tends to feel very nasty and victim blaming and repugnant, of course for good reason, but i think in a fictional context it's both easier and less risky to appreciate the humanity of that response and to recognize that relationships genuinely can be more than one thing at a time and it's not always completely cut and dry. there's a level at which deception is happening, and there's a level at which no deception is happening. irl the fact that somebody has committed violent crimes against others would pretty much always be the only relevant information to discuss, but in a fictional space there isn't the same danger and urgency around the public conversation losing track of what was done to the victims (because the victims and perpetrator don't really exist), so there's room to entertain some more nuance and ambiguity.

[theaxolotlkween]

lol au where Rex and Noah were friends during the Nanite Project.

[redrobin-detective]

This is an announcement and a promise: if you are a bad nurse, I am coming for you. If you are rude and judgemental to patients, deny them basic human decency you will face my wrath. If you take shit care of them, think you know better than not only the patients and your coworkers but the whole medical team then you cannot hide from me. I will find you and I will go toe to toe with you bc even the worst human alive deserves care and respect and I will beat that lesson into you and maybe make you grow a heart.

[rottenteeth]

Science time with Rottenteeth!

To preface, DID is a trauma disorder just as PTSD is a trauma disorder, there is just heavier compartmentalization. Also there is nothing wrong morally with not wanting to, not having the resources to, or not being stable enough to recover. That isn't what this is about, its about the harm some people are causing to themselves unknowingly. My goal is education and harm reduction.

(Long post but many resources at the bottom)

Every system is different because everyone's trauma is different. This however, does not and will never apply to the treatment of dissociative identity disorder. There are 2 options if you want to recover and process trauma to the fullest extent. Being a functional integrated system and final fusion. These require the same treatment; stabilization, processing trauma, and the breaking down of dissociative barriers.

This means alter separation and the encouragement of treating them like genuine people, is counterintuitive to said path. Using people based language is not wrong, but genuinely believing you are multiple people will make your life much less functional. If you treat alters like separate people even with this knowledge, that is your decision and may be the safest option for your current situation. But it can and will make the future much harder.

Telling people with DID- a disorder that makes you disconnected from reality and fantasy prone- that a fully functional life and stable mental state is possible while "being multiple people" is not okay. Me and these other misinfo blogs aim to show people the true reality of this disorder and its treatment.

You wouldn't tell someone with PTSD that if processing trauma makes them feel bad then they don't have to process it to have a healthy life. You wouldn't tell someone with schizophrenia that they should embrace their hallucinations and treat them like they're real just because they feel real. Nor would you tell someone with depression that doing nothing and withdrawing from social interaction is helpful and a healthy path just because it feels the least taxing.

So why is it okay to endorse alter separation when we know that more alter separation=more dissociative barriers=less trauma processing? Why do we want people to not properly process their trauma?

Just because someone is more comfortable with the idea of being separate people (which occurs so that one can disown their trauma and emotions) does not mean it is a healthy recovery path. This disorder makes it so that "being multiple" is the most comfortable because that's what made life somewhat livable. That doesn't mean it's good, recovery will never be a happy comfortable process, it is a challenging and grueling process, it always has been.

It is okay to not be ready to accept alters as part of a whole, it is okay to feel scared when acknowledging that those things happened to all of you. Sometimes treating parts like people is a stage in the stabilization and trauma processing parts of treatment.

What isn't okay is making people think that treating yourself like you are multiple people in one body is a healthy thing long term. You are allowed to do so and my aim is to only educate these people about the long term harm they are doing so that they are informed in their decisions.

I think the confusion comes in because when we say alters are not separate people, it gets taken as us saying they shouldn't be treated with kindness and respect like a human. This is not and never has been what any of these accounts mean. Alters have individuality and may feel like different people and it is okay to acknowledge that, and they still deserve respect and compassion. But this does not mean they are people. No matter how severe your barriers are.

This disorder is not alter disorder but they are a manifestation of trauma and unmet needs. This doesn't diminish the fact that accepting this idea of being a fractured whole is incredibly hard and should be done with the help of a therapist during stabilization.

Here are some good resources:

[babyboywilson]

just accepted a veterinarian job offer at a beautiful clinic super close to my new house in texas! finally feeling hopeful that there is good things to come and that this move back home to texas will bring positive changes to my life and my career <3

[asgardian--angels]

things I wish I could relive for the first time again:

that magical window where you finish a new piece of media, having watched/read it all by yourself with no fandom contact whatsoever, and you are just so happy about it, and full of interesting theories and takeaways, and just in love with it as a gorgeous piece of art.

because I swear to god as soon as you join the fandom for anything, you're bombarded with how you're supposed to view characters and their arcs, how you're supposed to morally and ethically judge the plot and the ways it apparently failed to present the right message, and if you don't you'll either be shunned for not sharing the popular headcanons or you'll be harassed for not criticizing the source material enough.

like how is it that the fans of a piece of media are also the ones being the most negative about it? If I like a show or a movie or a book, well, I liked it. That's kind of the point. I'm actually not here to tear it apart and talk about how it didn't live up to standards other people had! I enjoyed it for what it was, and forcing myself to find negative things to say about it doesn't actually bring me more enjoyment of it or reap any benefit to me. Fandom's a double-edged sword; you want to join a community to share your love for a piece of art, and the price you pay for a modicum of joy is a mountain of negativity. that's one main reason that I never engage with fandom until I'm completely done with a show, because if I was plugged into all of that commentary and discourse during the process, I'd be completely colored by how I'm expected to interpret everything this piece of art is presenting to me without being able to even form my own opinions.

[skeletalheartattack]

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[mewguca]

20 for ask game?👀

I tried