Dat ik hier dan ook soms kwaad op alles en iedereen ben.
En dat hier op #mastodon dan weer nieuwe gebruikers verschijnen die geliefd zijn maar in mijn ogen dikke onnozelaars met een grote bek en een groot ego dat helpt dan ook weer niet om hier vriendelijk te blijven.
#dissociativedisorders

Rare situatie weer...
#Olifant loopt door #Zoutelande.
Geen echte, attractie voor kinderen.
Maar mijn kinderen hadden er twee attracties bij.
1. Honden waren bang, en werden helemaal angstig. Elke hond eigenlijk.
2. Eén van mijn alters nam het over en vertrok gewoon van terras waar we zaten. Herkende niemand meer van mijn kinderen, en ging letterlijk lopen.
Iemand van personeel dacht dat ik niet wou betalen.
Honden werden nog gekker.
Maar de dochter heeft alles opgelost.
#dissociativedisorders

A lot of #plurals are misdiagnosed with personality disorders because they show the symptoms of one or more personality disorders.

I know. That sounds weird. If you have the symptoms of a #disorder, surely you have the disorder, right?

That's true for a #singlet, but it's not true for a #plural

A personality disorder is #pervasive by definition. This means that it permeates throughout the person's life and colors every #experience that they have. Every single one.

That means that for a #system to be accurately diagnosed with a personality disorder, all of that system must have the personality disorder. Not one #headmate. Not two. All of them.

By way of example, consider a plural system with a #protector/#persecutor, a headmate who exists to protect the system, but that often also harms the system in the #maladaptive way that it chooses to protect the system. This protector/persecutor could be an #introject of that system's external abuser, thereby continuing that individual's abuse on the system long after that individual is gone from the system's life.

That protector/persecutor might easily receive a #diagnosis of #Borderline, #Narcissistic, or #Antisocial Personality Disorder. But often the protector/persecutor is also unique among its headmates. The #BPD, #NPD, or #APD diagnosis may be completely wrong for the other members of the system, and certainly for the host (if there is one), who may be the victim of the protector/persecutor's #abuse more often than not.

This means that the diagnosis of a personality disorder is wholly inaccurate. The personality disorder has not pervaded the system, and it therefore cannot be called a personality disorder. And if even one #headmate is capable of insight into the #abusive protector/persecutor, then that system's #prognosis is likely to be significantly better than that of a person who has been accurately diagnosed with a personality disorder.

In short, for a system to be correctly diagnosed as having a personality disorder, all of that systems headmates must share the symptoms of the disorder. If they do not, they do not have a personality disorder.

I hope this has been helpful!

#mentalHealth #dissociativeDisorders #DID #OSDD #personalityDisorders

Because so many mental health professionals are either biased against #plural folks or know less than nothing about it, many plural folks are rightfully suspicious of them. This means it can be tough to communicate actual knowledge about #plurals that has been obtained through scientific research.

Sadly, a lot of these #research #studies are case studies, so we also can't be entirely sure that we can trust that the data we obtain from these studies are generalizable. So when someone speaks about the #psychology of #plurality, they must do it with the knowledge that what they have could only apply to a proportion of plurals, and a small proportion at that.

With that in mind, as a professional with expertise in #dissociation and #dissociative disorders generally and as a plural, I'd like to serve as a bridge between the latest research and the plural #community.

First, I want to talk about personality disorders and how even in the presence of a given PD's symptoms, a plural can be misdiagnosed as having a personality disorder when they do not.

#mentalHealth #caseStudies #dissociativeDisorders #DID #OSDD #personalityDisorders

@peterdeppisch Part 5: I especially want to understand where, how, and why things can go wrong with someone's cognitive map and the interrelationships with trauma, memory, and #dissociativedisorders that can arise.