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Gentle reminder that the only reason you should ever "self diagnose" is when you have done thorough research about the diagnostic criteria, you are facing uncontrollable/long term limitations to accessing proper healthcare, AND are only using that to try to better understand your health or be better understood by people in your personal life.

Self diagnosis in many cases will be incorrect due to your own personal biases and interpretations of the medical text. It should not be a means of inserting yourself into online spaces as "one of them", it should not be a replacement for medical care, it is not an excuse to ignore or avoid available resources, it does not validate spreading anti-recovery rhetoric that pushes disordered individuals away from seeking the help they need, and it should never be a technique to bypass putting in the time, energy and work to find a proper yet affordable doctor.

Diagnosis-- let alone accurate diagnosis-- takes time, getting a care team that listens takes self advocacy, and you will inevitably meet at least one doctor during your journey who is dismissive or even bigoted. That's the unfortunate nature of living in a society that does not properly accommodate the people within it. But that doesn't mean that every good and reasonable doctor is locked behind a classist/ableist paywall, it just means you need to be patient with yourself, take slow steps forward and work on what you can do to get to one in the meantime.

[thescreamcorner]

I'm at such a fucking loss for this post in particular because you spent the first half saying you don't understand how anyone could want a system, then spent the second half just up-talking how much you love your alters.

Posts like this. This kind of content exactly is how people can look at DID and think they want it. Posts that talk about "how hard DID is" in the vaguest of terms, if at all, and then go on to talk about "how cool all the alters are and how it sucks you can't just hug them irl", or use intra-system communication techniques as content fodder, or actively put things in a format that emulates roleplay.

There's value in privately learning to love your system and that can be vital to healing, and not every post about DID should be misery and trauma dumping either, but uncritical public posts that have any of these sentiments actively contributes to why people think DID is some cool and quirky "having friends in your head" or something you can/should aquire for easy escapism.

It's a complex dissociative disorder caused by trauma, and healing from it takes extensive amounts of work, time and energy. It is not a way to combat loneliness or something to show off for tumblr notes, something people will never understand when content around CDDs is full of fluffy language and glitter and "look at my cool/funny/silly alters and the stuff they did" instead of the hard truths of what these disorders do to your life.

I really hate seeing others say how they want DID or think it's so cool when they're a singlet cuz why???? Why would you want this??? I genuinely can't comprehend why someone would purposely try to create a system either because this sucks

And don't get me wrong I absolutely love my head mates, I adore Saturn, Astrid and 404 are fucking cool as shit and I love everyone else, even the hurt ones, even our persecutors, but I would give literally anything if it meant I could have my own body away from them, I wish I could be physically detached from Saturn so I could give him actual hugs and kisses, I wish i could go get my own little job maybe at a library or smth simple and quiet, i wish I could look like myself instead of this body.

I just don't understand why anyone would want this

[stusbunker]

WIP Game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

Things We Can't Stand to Lose

Jam Baskets Fics

For Better or Worst

JFT: The Morning After

Known Sequel

Finding Home: TPWH sequel

There's one potential in there, too, but I hope to use it for next year's DeanCasBigBang so I won't list it.

Let me know if you're curious in an ASK

Shout out to Lou @there-must-be-a-lock for the tag

Tagging: I don't even know who hasn't been tagged yet. So if you want to talk shop, post away!

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[thescreamcorner]

I don't know if I will ever feel like I'm truly understood on this hellsite when I say people, even in the DID tags, make DID look cute, quirky and fun.

So many of yall will make hollow comments about how "no one should want this" only to engage with the exact types of posts that glamorize and oversimplify dissociative disorders. You'll say you don't understand how someone could want to be a system and then talk about how much you LOVE your alters with absolutely no critical thinking or important context. Wondering how anyone could have the nerve to not take DID seriously, then share every little detail of your trauma and system and turn your every disordered experience into content.

I'm at the point of infuriated that I can't even reblog posts about the online glamorization of CDDs because the very same people making these posts participate in said glamorization with no critical thought, making their entire point into empty fucking words.

I wish I could be in a space where I could actually feel seen and heard by people who I don't have to worry might be hyperbolizing or using the experiences and symptoms of these disorders as a cosplay.

[thescreamcorner]

“I’m always frontstuck I’ve never seen the inner world”

“Someone tell me how to go inside? Someone teach me to switch on command?”

The idea of an “inner world” is supposed to be a visualization tool to help facilitate communication between parts of a dissociative mind, it is not a literal place you can “go to” and if you “have a system” but “have never switched,” you don’t have fucking DID and you need to back tf out of the tags

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probably a take that a LOT of people are going to be angry about but I'm gonna preface with: I'm speaking on a general trend I've seen in online spaces, and my thoughts on it are not a direct callout to anyone nor an inherent indicator of if someone's DID is "real" or "fake."

but like. the way that some people will use public spaces to "chat intra-system" is so wild and even at times uncomfortable as fuck, if nothing else it's pretty wildly unsafe because like you have NO IDEA who's reading what you're writing out. Having a private discord server or a journal or a notes app or something is a much safer way to facilitate that kind of thing.

that and lowkey..... sometimes ppl doing it in public or actively sharing screenshots of it on tumblr like it's some "the group chat going wild tonight" type content just feels. So much like roleplay. It skeeves me out a bit. I know in my heart that generally using a space to try and communicate with other parts of the system is a healthy coping mechanism that a lot of therapists recommend but so many times that I see that posted it feels like that meaning and healing has been lost and in some cases borders on roleplaying or content farming and it makes me so uncomfortable

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