#healthy dissociation

[bloofbloofbloof]

Feel bad people think by default dissociation is a form of mental illness when in fact it's sometimes a normal state of mind and can be entered through trance/meditation/hypnosis and be very calming and peaceful and not at all stressful!

Plus if you're prone to dissociation, it's easier to go into trance and relax. And it can be then used to recover from more unhealthy forms of it.

Honestly it's amazing to see you control a part of yourself you thought you couldn't. There are super pleasant and fun dissociative states that are done safely through mindfulness. Something as simple as getting invested in a videogame can be similar.

(this is coming from someone whose life is like 1/4 dissociation and researched this a lot lol)

:edit: can’t believe I have to say this but if you’re going to reply ableism and argue with me, I’m going to delete your comment and block you.

:edit: any nsfw account dni. This is not a porn post you creepy weirdo.

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

The brain is an organ. Mental illnesses are illnesses of that organ. Brain scans show that there is a physical difference between a healthy brain and a sick brain. Telling someone “You’re not really sick. It’s all in your head.” is like telling someone with asthma “It’s not real, it’s all in your lungs.” The brain is an organ that can malfunction as much as any other organ.

[casart]

..•Perception Distorted•..

[mewobrute]

i got two mini comics with Killer "talking" to his other stages, its just angst.

Heres the first one

(hes talking about Nightmare in the first panel btw.)

heres the second one

heart soul = stage 1. circle soul = stage 2, and big crazy circle soul/the red one = stage 3. for anyone wondering.

[actual-changeling]

hot take but the reason why beez and gabriel figured their shit out so quickly is because they both have a solid sense of who they are as a person and the relationships adds to that instead of threatening their sense of identity.

if, for some reason, they had landed on "yeah no we won't work" they would have been sad/disappointed/heartbroken, but ultimately beez is happy with who they are and so is gabriel. nina and maggie decided to NOT get into a relationship for the same reason, they respect themselves and each other enough to put personal growth and their mental health first instead of attempting to solve trauma responses and hypervigilance by making someone the turning point of their world.

aziraphale and crowley, on the other hand, aren't just dogshit at communicating, they have also build their sense of identity around each other and thus the thought of not being together automatically comes with a loss of personhood, trapping them in "i need them to live and will be destroyed if they're not with me". which is incredibly self-destructive and deeply unhealthy, and not a foundation for a functional relationship.

the solution to that is not to glue them together and call it a day, it's to allow both of them the space and grace to grow as individuals and develop a healthy sense of self so the relationship is build on mutual respect AND self respect.

[starrynightteam]

OSDD system when they start to open up:

[brucewaynehater101]

Overwhelming Emotions HC: Tim, Jason, Dick, and Damian

TW: dissociation, panic attacks, unhealthy coping mechanisms

Tauma, upbringing, culture, parenting, and experiences will have varying effects on how one processes and expresses emotion. Not all coping methods will be healthy or deemed socially appropriate. Here's my hc on how their circumstances affected how they deal with overwhelming trauma.

Tim is used to locking down his emotions. When it gets to be too much, he literally shuts down. He'll stare at walls for hours as time passes, be unable to move, and experience difficulty with speaking

Jason has panic attacks. He isolates himself, breaks things, and mentally spirals for hours if not days

Dick will fly off the handle with rage, clutch his hair as he rocks back and forth, and cry hysterically

Damian will flip between intense anger and dissociation. He will either lash out, or he will slip into depersonalization not being fully aware of his own body

[drakesvalley]

here's your obligatory reminder that your journey to recovery is your own. what might be harmful for someone else could be something that pulls you through the day. everyone goes at a different pace and it's nobody's business to tell you that something that works for you is wrong. especially if it doesn't harm anyone else. keep on rocking

[billford-dump]

Human Bill dissociates a lot, especially at first. His body rarely feels like his own. He can hardly see through these weak human eyes. His hands don't look like that. He has one eye, not two. He doesn't have a mouth, or nose, or ears. He doesn't have any hair, much less hair all over him. Everything is wrong, down to the smallest detail.

It does gets better, eventually. He feels more like himself, less like a puppeteer cursed to inhabit a puppet. There are little things he likes about the his new body, little details that make it more bearable, little things he can do to feel more comfortable.

[twiigthetwiink]

androgynous genderfuckery appreciation post<3

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[lefluoritesys]

So, this is a bit of a different post than usual, it doesn't directly relate to systems, but I really gotta share.

So, our partner system and us, we sleep on VCs. Main reason being, it just feels safer that way and feels like we're closer to each other. And we have like... a 7 hour time difference (to put it in perspective, their 10am is our 5pm), so we can also soothe each other's nightmares if we have them.

And yesterday was a pretty stressful day for us. As well as, we just felt sleepy and couldn't get anything done due to that. I was regressed, and they were still sleeping, it was almost 5am for them (almost 12pm for us). So I unmute my mic, and I call one of their alters who I see as a parental figure and who wasn't even fronting at that time. Wakes up, immediately fronts, asks me what's wrong, and I tell them that I want to be lulled to sleep. Cause I'm small and sleepy, but I want my mum to help me fall asleep. I am also apologizing cause they have work in a few hours, and I'm waking them up, not letting them sleep... and I get the "no apologies, baby, you're so small, of course you want your mum to lull you to sleep."

And we had another ex-partner system before that who told us, very explicitly, that we're foolish for trying something with our partner system, all because of a minor inconvenience that they didn't like (and that I won't bring up). I didn't listen, for the first time ever stood my ground... and so I went from a system who claimed that giving us any reaction to anything we send or are passionate about was "not something they were taught" (to the point where talking to them and talking to a wall made no difference), to a partner system who is willing, and encouraging us, to wake them up at night if we need them for literally anything.

So like, romance, friendship, QPR (queerplatonic relationships) are cool and all, but will they wake up in the middle of the night because you need affection? Cause ours will. And that's probably our biggest flex. /semi-ref

(@the-soup-system)

-host

[disassociation-culture-is]

Dissociation Culture is my problem is maintaining grip (on reality) and trying to fix it

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[seaweedstarshine]

RIP Krakoa 🌹 I can’t lie I’ve been kinda behind since midway through Fall of X I’m gonna catch up before my first SDCC this summer but I hear Vulcan didn’t see much action anyway. Anyway my hand slipped and I found myself looking into the eyes of my canonically psychotic son the best Summers brother who’s never done anything wrong in his entire life, (he’s done lotsa wrong things but I love him more for it)

[sparklesquids]

I am BEGGING YOU to stop moralizing fusion.

in BOTH DIRECTIONS

not wanting to fuse is okay! wanting to fuse is okay!

pursuing final fusion? Okay! Pursuing healthy multiplicity? OKAY!

Your recovery is not going to be the same as someone else's

I know a lot of this comes from a backlash to final fusion being viewed as the only acceptable way to heal for so so long, but it's not okay to go the other way around and shame people for fusion.

I also want to say that I as a DID system have experience unplanned/unexpected fusions that were DISTRESSING. and there have been times where I have been discussing this (since I think people should talk about it more! It's okay to be struggling to process fusion!) and seen people say things like "well WE would never want to fuse" "I love my system I don't want them to go away"

you are valid but you need to recognize the way that you're saying these things in a way that is shaming. you're implying that someone aimed for fusion (they don't always! sometimes it just happens naturally!) or that they wanted their system to "go away".

it's rude.

recognize that not every system is the same and we need to be supporting each other regardless of if our goals or paths happen to change, whether we hope for it or not

[tvlipsandbread]

How about we not romanticize maladaptive daydreaming because it literally ruins lives (this is a cry for help)