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[grey-reverie.livejournal.com]

as per the usual, life is beating the crap out of us..

the trip by bike got called off by caden, now the trip by car has been postponed due to dead car..

ya know, sometimes i get a little tired of having everything i try and do pissed all over. life really just does not like us, especially me..

anyways.. just posting to let everyone know im not dead on the side of some stretch of highway. everyone i promised to visit on the trip, i will eventually, but for now weve gotta get a temp job to fix the car before going anywhere..

-lukies

Establishing a line of communication for better understanding of things

[lirialgypsyrose.livejournal.com]

Hello all,

I am a "singlet" currently involved in a relationship with someone who is multiple.
I am new to this community and i would like to seek some advice to help me better understand things. I would like to ask any advice on how i can establish a line of communication with him and his others so i can better understand when things happen. Such as: When i dont hear from him b/c he has been switching ,naturally i get alarmed b/c i fear what if he doesnt come back etc? Even tho i know he will come back eventually. Sometimes another will be the front-runner for awhile. Should i get to know each of his alts? their moods etc?
I dont like to ask questions sometimes b/c i am afraid of causing triggering etc.
What is usually the better way to go about asking the others , when he is not available that i want to talk to him etc? They know who i am that much i know from conversations that i have had with them.
Im finding myself confused at times. Any advice would be most helpful...
I apologize if this post doesnt seem to make much sense i am kinda sleep deprived atm.
Sincerely,
~T~

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Okay, so this isn't specifically about multiplicity, but it's relevant to the topic of psychology in general.

On the one hand, emerging evidence that for many people, cognitive therapy is as or more effective than antidepressants in the treatment of depression.

On the other hand, not ready to lose an opportunity to tighten their grip on modern psychiatry, the determinists 'find' yet another biological cause for a disorder previously assumed to be of psychodynamic origin. Apparently, anorexia is really the result of a brain dysfunction, flying in the face of decades of research about its emotional and social context, as well as its status as a culture-specific disorder.

So, of course, there's no need any more to treat people with anorexia as individual human beings, or try to understand the origins of a desire to starve oneself and how social pressures affect it. No need to do anything but shove pills down their throat.