Whoa that’s fascinating! Is it something akin to dissociative identity disorder (DiD) then? I ask, as the only person I know with a similar experience has been diagnosed with DiD.
DID is one of the ways to be plural. DID is a form of traumagenic plurality, which means the system was created by trauma. The other big category is endogenic plurality, which is when the system is created from within.
There’s actually a significant faction of systems with DID and OSDD who think that traumagenic plurality is the only genuine kind of plurality. They think endogenic systems are all faking it. That view is called sysmedicalism, because they think your system is only real if you’ve been diagnosed by the medical industry. The debate between sysmedicalists and endogenic allies is called syscourse.
Otherwise Specified Dissociative disorder. It’s used when a patient doesn’t meet the criteria for DID, but they clearly have dissociated identities formed in the typical DID way. For example if a system had the switching but not the switch amnesia, they could get OSDD
Whoa that’s fascinating! Is it something akin to dissociative identity disorder (DiD) then? I ask, as the only person I know with a similar experience has been diagnosed with DiD.
DID is one of the ways to be plural. DID is a form of traumagenic plurality, which means the system was created by trauma. The other big category is endogenic plurality, which is when the system is created from within.
There’s actually a significant faction of systems with DID and OSDD who think that traumagenic plurality is the only genuine kind of plurality. They think endogenic systems are all faking it. That view is called sysmedicalism, because they think your system is only real if you’ve been diagnosed by the medical industry. The debate between sysmedicalists and endogenic allies is called syscourse.
Wow thanks for the response, that’s quite enlightening as my knowledge of the whole is rather minimal. What is OSDD?
Otherwise Specified Dissociative disorder. It’s used when a patient doesn’t meet the criteria for DID, but they clearly have dissociated identities formed in the typical DID way. For example if a system had the switching but not the switch amnesia, they could get OSDD
Thank you!