#hope this was appropriate to add. if it wasn't just lemme know and i'll make my own post. thumbsup

[prinnamon]

genuinely, plural or not, if you are like me and struggle with perspective—like if when you're upset it's difficult to remember a time when you were happy or vice versa—if there are parts of you that you spend a lot of time actively repressing and that's harming you—consider thinking of them as people. *try* respecting them, because you've all gotta inhabit the same body and you're not gonna get anywhere if you refuse to acknowledge the others exist.

sad-you is not just you-but-lying-to-yourself, nor is happy-you just you-but-lying-to-yourself. each different state of being is as real as the others. treat them as you would a friend or a person in your care. give each one the time and space and respect it needs to feel what it feels. i was given this advice during a counseling session and it's been genuinely helpful.

if it might be useful to think of your inner child as an honest-to-god separate person because that makes it easier to do nice things for them, or if conceptualizing your future self as a person you're doing a favor for by taking care of chores/assignments before they become urgent helps you get those things done, or if you want to think of journaling as happy-you writing a letter to sad-you so that sad-you can remember what it felt like to be happy, or if you're genderfluid and you wanna conceptualize your different states of being as whole-ass different folks, you can just go ahead and do that!

if you find out you're plural in the process then hell yeah. if you are like me and you aren't plural, it likely will still have been a useful exercise to deal with these other issues.

Kinda a rant sorry

so while thinking about it.

I legitimately believe that people viewing themselves as more than one can be genuinely helpful for coping with mental health conditions.

like viewing your extreme emotions as separate parts from you that you need to learn to coexist with ,, I think that could be legitimately so very helpful. Viewing yourself now and your childhood self as separate people who inhabit one body may be helpful to others who struggle with hating their younger self.

Ever since we discovered we were plural it’s like our life has become so much better. It’s helped so much with our mental health.

we love plurality and the joy it brings us <3 we hope that someday we can share that joy with others!

sorry for how like not well worded this is ^.^ we would love to hear others opinions on this :3