#been seeing a rise in syscourse lately and its driving me a bit bonkers

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Gonna ramble about syscourse for a moment

I really did start as someone who was strictly sysmed and anti endo

I mean I'm a psychologist. I've got a degree and everything! I studied psychopathology with a focus on trauma-based disorders!

And the more I've studied the less I've believed that plurality is so plain and simple as to be purely trauma based

Frankly, unless you're a researcher or insurance companies (both which are ultimately trying to sell things) the lines between disorders are so massively blurred. In actual practice when working with professionals and counselors and whatever you're treating the symptoms. Not the diagnosis.

Which is why, the more I actually study and interact with and exist in psychological spaces, the more stupid I think the endo vs trauma vs willo vs whatever argument is

It's just! It's nothing! The DSM-V says you need trauma to have this disorder. Yes. But the DSM-V is largely constructed by non-practicing researchers. NOT the people who actually treat or experience these disorders. People completely connected from it.

I'm not saying the DSM-V is wrong. It's not. It's research driven and an important resource.

But it's not a Bible. You can't treat its word as gospel.

People are experiencing plurality regardless of the source. Just exist. Live. Recognize the symptoms and the people and focus on THAT, yknow?