Truths & Myths: Pluralpedia Part 1

Welcome to our "Truths and Myths" series! In this series, we aim to debunk misconceptions and provide accurate information about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). We will mainly focus on DID as it is the disorder we are most familiar with on both a personal and research basis.

Each post will highlight the accurate and inaccurate parts of each term, from the best of our research ability. Then, at the end, we will explain the full story of what DID actually is and provide our sources. We will be taking requests for terms anyone would like us to review. Otherwise, we will use random terms we find.

This first post is an exception to the random terms as we wanted to go over the formation of a DID system.

To develop Dissociative Identity Disorder, a child must experience overwhelming, severe, and repetitive trauma during their childhood. Having a dissociative disorder such as DID, PDID (ICD-11), or OSDD (DSMV) is the only way to have forms of dissociative identities.

As previously mentioned, DID can only be formed from trauma.

However, it has been suggested that individuals with a natural ability to dissociate or use dissociation as their primary response to trauma are more likely to develop DID. This innate ability allows them to reach a high level of dissociation and form dissociative identities. It is important to note that there is currently no confirmed link between this ability and the development of DID, but it is a proposed logical theory that would need more research.

Furthermore, certain biological factors can make an individual more susceptible to trauma, such as being born biologically female or being neurodivergent. For example, biological females are statistically more likely to experience s*xual abuse, which may have been the trauma they experienced as a child that led to the formation of their system.

Additionally, it is crucial to clarify that Dissociative Identity Disorder cannot be present at birth, and therefore, one can not be born with a system.

The theory of how personality is structured suggests that the personality comprises "modes" that contain cognitive, affective, behavioural, and physiological representations. These modes also represent a plan for encoding experiences and responding to internal and environmental demands.

For example, a person may have a "mother mode" activated when caring for a child, and this mode would have planned what care a child needs. However, the person will also have other modes, such as one associated with demands about their work or demands for defence in verbal ways. In a regular adult, all modes are connected to each other and are under a "conscious control system," which allows for an integrated self-state. This is why it may feel you have fluctuations in your personality or feel differently around your family than your friends. They are different modes, but importantly, they are all integrated together, unlike in an individual with DID.

DID occurs when this coupling process of modes is disrupted by dissociation caused by trauma. This results in smaller, more isolated pockets of modes, leading to multiple conscious control systems that represent different and discontinuous modes. Each of these systems has its own aspect of self, reflected by the modes within it.

One's I specifically used to write my explanation:

Though I suppose technically, in the way the theory is currently proposed, people who have DID never had a "singlet" phase. Otherwise, they would not have been able to form a system or develop DID.

Revisiting the etiological aspects of dissociative identity disorder: a biopsychosocial perspective. (Section under Dissociative Identities)

McLean Hospital. (Section under What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?)

Other external sources that also validate my claims but were not used specifically in the writing:

Cleveland Clinic. (Section under What causes Dissociative Identity Disorder)

The coupling process can be disturbed when a child tries to displace their thoughts, feelings, and emotions onto a “not me” in order to escape what they are experiencing and carry on with life and allows the child to remain for example creative or have a sense of humour even in very difficult circumstances. This leads to disconnected feelings and disorganised attachments to primary caregivers, which means the integration of modes is impossible.

NHS (Section under Causes of Dissociative disorder. It is important to note that this covers all dissociative disorders, not specifically DID)

Better Health Channel. (Section under Causes of Dissociative Disorders. It is important to note that this covers all dissociative disorders, not specifically DID)

Thank you for reading our first part to this series. Feel free to send us an echo to our page or leave in the comments any questions or suggestions for future parts to this series.

Made from the collaborative efforts of the system who run this blog.

More Posts from Casi-system-interface and Others

casi-system-interface

10 months ago

I can’t believe that a war criminal is canonically a Tumblr Sexyman

25 notes View Post

casi-system-interface

1 year ago

228K notes View Post

casi-system-interface

10 months ago

“What makes you think I’m the only source? There could be hundreds of others! THOUSANDS! You could be spreading it too! It’s just using you to get what it wants!” - Tim Wright

[I spooked my stepdad with these images cuz he though they were real,, news flash! I made them! To which he proceeded to go on a tangent on why he doesn’t like scary stuff while watching ghost adventures.]

Upclose images for those who may not spot him,, it was like so hard to make it look apart of the background but also spooky??? Idk I tried.

47 notes View Post

casi-system-interface

10 months ago

The Man In The Suit //Godzilla Stimboard

The Man In The Suit //Godzilla Stimboard

Made by (🌠)

☆.｡.:* .｡.:*☆.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ﾟ+..｡*ﾟ+

18 notes View Post

casi-system-interface

4 months ago

Lost & Not Found (32)

''Harry dies and he meets Tom’s parents and his own parents in the white King's Cross. Harry thinks Tom can be saved and Voldemort thinks this is laughable. I vividly remember Harry being kissed by him while Death and their parents watch. They both get reincarnated and fall in love without memories and on their wedding, I think, they get them back and Tom facepalms as he clearly has fallen head over heels. They live away from the magic world together happily and disgustingly in love.'' [ FOUND Victory in Loss by Gwendal_Wincott ]

''It was a one-shot on ao3, I believe, where Tom and Harry are casting spells at each other during the Final Battle. Something happens and then Voldemort finds himself watching Harry grow up as a shade in the background and in Tom's life Harry is going the exact same. 1 second was 1 year in their 'shade' world. They come back and they remember seeing the other helping them as new memories begin to set. Harry jokes about when Abraxas Malfoy's hair turned pink and Slughorn had it hung in his office and they both laugh while the rest of the characters stare at them in confusion.''

''It was published on AO3. At some point of the story, Harry comes to Malfoy Manor to have sex with Tom and steals his horcrux mainly to piss him off, I believe. Tom's followers are shocked that Tom is having sex with Harry and that he tells them to leave. I'm not sure if this is the same one as the one where Tom locks Harry up in some mountain and Harry gets a Grimm animagus form + learns how to revive Hermione's cat.'' [ FOUND Inevitabilities by EclipseWing ]

''It was a one-shot on ffnet I believe, pretty short. Tom and Harry were married and had a kid called James who got into trouble and the teacher called Tom to her office. Tom scares her and she fears him but then there is a line where it says "His husband [Harry] is worse."

''Harry and I think Tom get reincarnated, but Harry's also a werewolf, and he's like some special werewolf. Harry has a younger brother that he teaches magic to, but no one besides the little brother has heard him speak. Tom starts courting him, and then later on the story, Lily yells Tom out of the house as like an angry protective mother. If it's relevant, Harry killed Kreature in his last life.'' [ FOUND Nose to the Wind by Batsutousai ]

''Both tom are harry are the same age, but tom goes to durmstrang and they both came back to life. Tom is an absolute simp and they reunited at the Triwizard tournament. Tom and Harry find out tom is king of some country and Harry is king of Camelot. They go to a royal ball. They start a magical orphanage together.''

''Harry was taken to the Chamber of Secrets by a Horcrux. The Horcrux decided to drain him to come back to life but was eventually killed by Harry with the sword of Gryffindor. The plot took place in book 7 and the Horcrux was probably the locket? (not sure, definitely not the diary tho) There was a lot of smut and the ending scene was in Dumbledore's office, where Harry managed to get the sword. I remember reading it on ao3.'' [ FOUND Secrets by skywalker ]

88 notes View Post

casi-system-interface

1 year ago

7K notes View Post

casi-system-interface

1 year ago

reading the symptoms of autism as a now grown adult after being bullied for no explainable reason all your life

46K notes View Post

casi-system-interface

1 year ago

Play games with your characters!!!

·:¨༺𖤐☆✮☆𖤐༻¨:·

I mean this literally, your favorite game? Play it with your character!

Put your character in The Sims and see what they do. Play The Walking Dead, but make all the choices your character would make. Cards Against Humanity, but your character has to answer everything.

As weird as this sounds, it's a great way to get to know your characters better, and the best part is that you can do it with pretty much any game you like!

Trixed Thursday 28/03/24

198 notes View Post

casi-system-interface

1 year ago

Dehydration seems like such a good way to whump people.

There's the way your head slowly starts to hurt as the day progresses.

There's the way you wake up with your head feeling pinched in, like it might implode.

There's the chapped lips and the dry skin as the dehydration begins to take it's toll.

There's way your head starts to feel fuzzy and thoughts are harder to think.

There's just so many ways to make things worse just by withholding water.

106 notes View Post

casi-system-interface