Success story (for young'uns and old)

[vinik.livejournal.com]

This point just dawned on me so I thought I'd post it here and see what happens. We're so busy with baby that I don't know how quickly we'd be able to answer questions directed at us, but it's not a retaliation to elenbarathi's post. It just reminded us of something we'd thought of writing about on here before.

Okay, there are a lot of young people in this community (teens and early 20's). It has been discussed before, usually in a negative light. However, I'd like to point out something we have personally experienced.

When we first found out about Natural Multiplicity we were only 20 years old. When we came out to our therapists as Multiple, we were 15 years old. If online access were so readily available back then, I'm more than sure we would have been on the web frantically looking for others like us.

We were really fucked up back then, very dramatic, but thanks to websites like the ones listed on the user info page here, and talking to other plurals, we wound up on the right track.

So if you're skeptical that these younguns showing up here, thinking that they might be trouble, just remember that some of us (maybe even you) started out the same way.

Peace, loves!

-Benjamin (because when I'm intellectual I use my full name. 'dons Hugh Hefner-like outfit and pipe' Yes, look at the sexiness of me and drool copiously. 'wink')

(Jen: oh dear god 'facepalm')

Comments

Re: websites helped us too

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

The paradigm of psychiatry is bloody scary, ain't it? We try to keep the hell away from those people these days, and it's working- knock wood...

Re: websites helped us too

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

LoL - we can't really stay away, one of our SO's is a psychiatrist,
but she is one of the few that is opposed to coercive psychiatry.

She get so so much trouble these days for not being a medicate them
and put them away dr.

-- Miri

Re: websites helped us too

[tir-nan-og.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's a very hard row to hoe. I can't even imagine how she manages. I had wanted to be a therapist that didn't go along with the medication/lockup party line, but all the research I've done suggests that this is impossible in my location, at this time.

If that is what you want .....

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

There is a niche for everyone. I was studying to do massage therapy
for a time - hope to go back to it. There are quite a few psychiatrists
around who oppose coercion. The way my SO explains it is that coercion
gives rise to sloppy work. You have to work with people where they are
and negotiate. Her 2 sayings are "It is the art of the possible" and
"We aim to please" ;-)