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[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

Yes, second day I've posted a link to another community's post, but this one has directly to do with multiplicity, and asks about multiplicity. :)
http://www.livejournal.com/community/psychology/519197.html

Comments

[redrainstorm.livejournal.com]

I was going to post that link too. :) I haven't replied there yet.

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

I thought that some of the people here might jump on it - perhaps not, but either way, I wanted to open the option to people who might not be a part of the community. :)

[pilgrimchild.livejournal.com]

They dont seem very receptive to the reality of DID or multiplicity there. Thats just my impression.

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

No, not at all.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

I tend to be suspicious whenever anyone attempts to diagnose a child as multiple, partly because in my experience even single children are prone to acting 'radically different' at times in a way most adults are not. They also may actually have an imaginary friend or be playing a game, and some psychologists will read all manner of disturbances and disorders into imaginative play. Just because a child steals cookies and blames it on his imaginary friend doesn't mean he's multiple, but some guidelines I've seen for 'identifying dissociative children' would suggest you do exactly this if the child has a known background of trauma.

The problem is that with a child so young, it's hard to tell. "He's a totally different person with me" is something that anyone who works with children in any way tends to hear. The kid's got obvious problems in this case, but a) is it attributable to being plural and b) even supposing he is, is it something he needs to be cured of? What if he happens to be part of a natural system which was disrupted by trauma, or did have trauma-based multiplicity but the others had been part of a support system for him? (I gather from her descriptions that she's never heard of natural multiples, but I wonder if it would be too rude to go over to the community and drop a line.) Why assume it's something that needs to be removed, and not to be worked with on its own terms (provided there are others with him?) What disturbed me most was the idea of putting a child of that age on antipsychotics. Hell, I'm almost inclined to say that if saying he's multiple can get him out of that, they might as well try to go for it.

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

is it something he needs to be cured of? What if he happens to be part of a natural system which was disrupted by trauma, or did have trauma-based multiplicity but the others had been part of a support system for him? (I gather from her descriptions that she's never heard of natural multiples, but I wonder if it would be too rude to go over to the community and drop a line.) Why assume it's something that needs to be removed, and not to be worked with on its own terms (provided there are others with him?)

I doubt as though it would be thought of as 'rude' to go over there and drop a line, as much as they would think, because it's a psychology community, and they know everything because of that (and natural multiplicity is 'something that's only heard of in chat rooms').

But for the child's sake, it should be looked at as at least an option (especially because of the risk of being put on antipsychotics). Not to mention, if it is the case, and the child is multiple (for whatever reason, from whatever cause), doesn't he deserve the chance to live his life the way he should be able to, and not surpressed by unecessary psychmeds? Psychmeds won't 'cure' his multiplicity, if he is multiple, they'll just be more detrimental.

I say go for it, give them your opinion.

[szczur-system.livejournal.com]

*as much as they would just think that you're stupid and/or flaming.