Hi.

[cynegyth.livejournal.com]

*waves* hey My name is cynegyth

I don't consider myself to have multiples but I am curious about DID, MPD and Multiples, whatever you wish to call it as I realise some people don't consider themselves to have DID or any of the other things.

I've read the frosty cold Medical type website about the concept of multiple's and the like but what I'm curious about is the people side of things.

The.. I'm not sure how to say this without sounding 1) offensive or 2) stupid. So I'm just going to say it (and I apologise for it now)

The 'feelings' side of things. Does that make sense?

How it works (because i'm not a muliple person myself)

Hope I'm welcome here.

Cyn

PS: I hope this Icon doesn't offend anyone it doesn't intend to.. and yes I do get paranoid over what I say/do sometimes so I apologise for that too :S

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[terrenepixy.livejournal.com]

so i kinda felt like i should update and post something here. i/we have been kind of lurking, and jack is getting on my case about it.

since my last update, my system and i have been cooperating better.

so i just have a few questions.

i kind of was wondering when people noticed the development of specific personalities, and how often some personalities wander in and out if at all... and i was wondering if anyone could tell me why i feel like there's others that won't talk to me, and how i could get them to do so.

currently my specifics are these :

me, the one typing : noelle. this is my body- i/we started out as noelle. 15, female, type II bipolar, stress ball.

skit : also female. more around 18. i call her my alter ego, because i feel like she formed when i was given the nickname skittles (skit for short) a few years ago. eccentric, hyper, kandy kid type.

jack : male, obviously. empathic? rarely comes out unless i/we're alone. id say he's around 11-13, maybe an age slider. has trouble dealing with people on a large scale - developed in middle school. he was my coping skill. after i left the school where i was having problems he stopped fronting.

aleria : female, 15. she's my darkness- she's a bitch. she likes causing pain. she came out at the beginning of last year and kinda stayed there. she would force me to cycle through which was difficult.

as to the others: they're there. i don't know their names, or their specifics. how can i get them to talk to me?

Multiple is Who We Are.

[truevessel.livejournal.com]

Someone speaking at a conference we attended, claimed he was the one who invented the
term Did, and convinced the psychiatric community to change the DSM from MPD to Did.
He insisted that all Did was trauma-based;
the topic of the conference was trauma.
He then said, in response to a question whether those who claimed to have so many alters, like a hundred or more, could be
authentic, that, "You just need to listen to five of them, to come up with
a treatment plan."

So all the way home, we had this arguement as to which five of us would be chosen to be heard,
to the exclusion of all others.

We found this absurd, both then and now.

And years earlier, there was the pompous psychologist who badgered us in group that we were
getting a lot of attention, mileage and enjoyment out of being multiple.
We wanted to point out that no way were we getting any enjoyment out of being multiple in
a hospital setting, for sure. His tone was
condescending and abusive, but when in the hospital, the staff has all the power, and we were
disrespected and misunderstood.

Not so, in the case of our therapist outside the hospital, who never viewed us with anything other than
dignity. I heard her say many times, when teaching social work students,

"Being a therapist doesn't place you above the clients.
It's not an us-and-them relationship."

We wish there were more like her.

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[hexpiritus.livejournal.com]

Some questions, if I may:

1) I am confused as to the level of strong responses to my previous post containing the Hofstadter quote. Though I was expecting a lively discussion, there seemed to be a level of hostility or annoyance that I was not prepared for-- I may be mistaken, of course. In any case, was it the quote itself that aggravated people? Is quotes discouraged on this forum, or is only quotes directly pertaining to multiplicity alone allowed, and not quotes that may be indirectly related? Should I have stated my intentions concerning posting the quote in this community so as to have cleared up confusion before it began? Cata keeps claiming that we were being attacked somehow, but I find no firm, logical evidence of her assumption, and so would really like to get to the heart of the matter.

2) Though I have posted previously, albeit a while go, on the innerworkings of our system, it seems recent events and abilities within may have changed the appropriate identification of our processes-- at least for the purposes of such communities that require correct identification. We have always thought of ourselves as multiple/plural for two years, but the ability that's arisen where we integrate at will, and usually safely, to combine consciousness and skills, and then separate, may put us in the "median" category. I'd really like some feedback on the particular division with multiple and median.

3) My significant other, also a multiple, is stressed and alarmed that two of the entities within their system has walked out on them (let's call them the Elf-Star). A shaman-type woman claims that one of the entities that was once in the Elf-Star, which they just referred to as Phoenix, is now in her. Is that possible, that entities can walk out of one body and right into another?

Thanks for your patience.
-Stel of Hexpiritus