We wanted to share with you the strategies that we use on a daily basis to figure out who is fronting at any given moment. If you are plural, we hope these strategies might be useful to you, and if you’re not, we hope this article will further illustrate what the experience of plurality and/or dissociative disorders is like.
Tag: mental illness
What Is Plurality/Multiplicity?
In this post, I go over the meaning of plurality, otherwise known as multiplicity, and how the concept applies to me personally.
Yes, Thank you I Have Heard of Yoga
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Ableism Bingo: Things to Never Say to a Disabled Person
The unsolicited comments disabled people receive on a daily basis are so predictable, you can use them to play Ableism Bingo. This article covers those many of those comments and where they come from.
Article on Medium: Why Does Everything Feel So Hard Right Now If I’m Fine
Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, I found that if I didn’t work hard to use my systems and tools meant to support my mental health, my functionality would quickly deteriorate. I frequently felt like I wasn’t okay and also that I had no business feeling that way.
Coping with Covid: Learning to Find Comfort Amidst the Unknown
But what do you say to your community when you’re scared, don’t know what to do, and you still want to offer them some kind of comfort?
How Physicians Can Be Better Mental Health Resources
Physicians can have a major impact on how we treat, understand, and confront our mental health. But, I’d like to offer that we, the patients, have much to teach physicians about approaching mental health care.
Recovering from Abuse: Was Everything My Fault?
I have a large number of friends who have been through at least one kind of abuse and I’ve noticed that if someone has gone through the process of recovering from abuse at least once, it becomes much more important to them to evaluate future behaviors as potentially abusive. But having the intense desire to avoid ever suffering abuse again, and actually identifying abuse are two very different things.
It Can’t Be That Bad: How the Medical System Let Me Fall Through the Cracks
As more and more stories of medical neglect as a result of marginalization are brought to light, I hope that we can collectively reduce that disconnect and bring understanding and accommodation of marginalized backgrounds into our medical system, rather than using the medical system to further enforce their oppression. Maya Strong’s guest post today is one of those stories.
When Charity Masks Injustice: Thoughts from an Ex-Missionary
In today’s guest post Newbury Caulfield, who is now an ex-missionary, looks at how her relationship with her faith evolved over time and how that process was influenced by the sometimes oppressive mechanisms within missionary work.