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Thread: What is Rapid Switching?
Post: RE: What is Rapid Switching?
| This is one of the best articles we have seen on this:
https://sarahkreece.com/2012/10/20/multiplicity-switching-and-relationships/
For us, involuntary rapid switching is a sign that we have let our ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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03-27-2017, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: New therapist!
Post: New therapist!
| A friend referred us to the therapist they have been seeing for over a year. The first appointment got delayed by a month because she was sick then we had to travel for work, but we finally got to se... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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04-13-2016, 08:20 PM |
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Thread: The Importance of Community
Post: The Importance of Community
| We have had many of these thoughts floating around our mind for a long time and finally sat down and wrote them out. To us, building communities is one of the core reasons we are involved in the plur... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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04-10-2016, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: Post memory reactions
Post: RE: Post memory reactions
| Dealing with new memories comes in waves. The first pass, we often ignore it or minimize the memory, or just say "this sounds scary, I hope this isn't real" and try not to think about it. Then the s... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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04-09-2016, 06:31 PM |
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Thread: Stepping Down From BoD and Admin Teams
Post: RE: Stepping Down From BoD and Admin Teams
| Thank you for all your work building and running this wonderful community. |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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03-08-2016, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: Who keeps things in order
Post: RE: Who keeps things in order
| One of our current models is that a variety of other things like SPD and autism and being trans can put people in a state where their baseline stress level is higher. As a result, these people are ab... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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03-07-2016, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Who keeps things in order
Post: RE: Who keeps things in order
| This is interesting and something we had never considered. We have had a few instances where under extreme stress, someone vanishes for a short while (up to a few days). The time it happened for a f... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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03-05-2016, 06:29 PM |
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Thread: A thought on 'stuck'
Post: RE: A thought on 'stuck'
| This is a wonderful quote and fits so well with our system's history. After elementary school, we buried all our emotions and went numb for several years and our emotions only came back when we were ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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03-04-2016, 08:08 PM |
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Thread: Comparison of challeged lives
Post: RE: Comparison of challeged lives
| Plural activism is something which is on our mind quite a bit these days. We want to find a way to promote the idea that multiplicity is not problematic in and of itself, but correlates strongly with... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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03-01-2016, 08:02 PM |
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Thread: poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID
Post: RE: poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID
| The term polyfragmented continues to draw us towards it and fascinate us. We just went through and did our best to define the term and wrote out many of our thoughts about it.
The definition bit:
Po... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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69,829 |
02-15-2016, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: Can't forgive T
Post: RE: Can't forgive T
| It's frustrating how time Ts need to create at least 10 positive interactions for every bad interaction. Even if they have done this in the past, they need to continue to do this in the future. The ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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01-18-2016, 05:52 PM |
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Thread: Greetings to All
Post: RE: Greetings to All
| Welcome. It is wonderful to see partners taking such active steps to learn and help their partner heal. Feel free to ask any questions! |
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FreyasSpirit |
Welcome Wagon |
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01-18-2016, 05:28 PM |
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Thread: Reacting to people relying on you
Post: RE: Reacting to people relying on you
| Take care of yourself first. In the past, we have overcommitted ourselves in situations like this and let it reach the breaking point where we couldn't handle it any more. At that point, we had to f... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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01-12-2016, 10:31 AM |
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Thread: Turning the big 6-0 today
Post: RE: Turning the big 6-0 today
| Happy birthday!
Sounds like you had a nice and relaxing day :) |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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01-12-2016, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: Happy Birthday MDs
Post: RE: Happy Birthday MDs
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FreyasSpirit |
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01-04-2016, 07:27 PM |
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Thread: Hi - Intro
Post: RE: Hi - Intro
| Welcome!
This is the second time we have heard about an infinite mind in the last month. The first we heard was when Jim Bunkelman was invited after appearing on npr's snap judgement: (tw: some disc... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Welcome Wagon |
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01-02-2016, 02:03 AM |
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Thread: happy new year everyone!
Post: RE: happy new year everyone!
| This holiday season has been very cleansing for us. It has cleared a lot of space for potential healing and growth. We hope the potential for healing is realized, both by us, and by everyone else he... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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01-01-2016, 06:51 PM |
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Thread: rfeeling frustrated.
Post: RE: rfeeling frustrated.
| The mechanism we use is to have google calendar send us a reminder email for both morning and evening meds. If the email is read, it means we have taken our meds, otherwise we have not. We are very ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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11-28-2015, 05:01 PM |
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Thread: poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID
Post: RE: poly-fragmented vs. "traditional" DID
| We want to say thank you for this thread. When we were initially looking through this forum, this was the thread which really caught our eye and made us decide to join. Before this, we had never enc... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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69,829 |
11-20-2015, 01:04 AM |
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Thread: what is safety?
Post: RE: what is safety?
| For us, being safe means that we have space where we can curl up and be broken. There are many places which are neither safe nor unsafe such as work or at a store where we are not unsafe, but also wo... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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11-16-2015, 08:16 PM |
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Thread: Patience and the Healing Process
Post: RE: Patience and the Healing Process
| In the past, we have alternated periods of healing and periods of just living and enjoying the healing we have done. Sometimes, we are in pain and have a strong desire to heal and actively work on he... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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10-23-2015, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: Broken
Post: Broken
| We are broken. Broken is something we self identify as. We view it as an important part of our identity. We told this to our therapist and she asked questions and explored what being broken meant t... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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10-14-2015, 07:58 PM |
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Thread: Resolution
Post: RE: Resolution
| We aren't sure if this is the same thing as guided imagery, but spending time innerworld and innerworld hugs definitely helps calm us. When we aren't doing as well, we like to take an hour to lie in ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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10-01-2015, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: DID and identity
Post: RE: DID and identity
| We are immensely lucky to be able to do that and are well aware of our luck. We are trying to take advantage of the luck as best we can and believe being this open is doing a reasonable job of using ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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09-28-2015, 06:48 PM |
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Thread: New med coming out
Post: RE: New med coming out
| Very nicely put MD.
Our trauma is part of us. We would no longer be us if our trauma was removed. What would happen to all the knowledge and understanding we have gained in processing our trauma?... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Therapy Lane |
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09-27-2015, 03:26 PM |
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Thread: DID and identity
Post: RE: DID and identity
| We just did a rough count and came up with about 24/28. It is possible the others will remain identifying as human, but it is also possible they will find their form in time and also end up identifyi... |
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FreyasSpirit |
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09-27-2015, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: Finding a balance...
Post: RE: Finding a balance...
| We have been experimenting with the approach of reducing responsibilities as much as possible and taking time for ourselves when we feel overwhelmed. In the most extreme cases, we isolate (leave all ... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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09-26-2015, 07:42 PM |
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Thread: Faking D.I.D.
Post: RE: Faking D.I.D.
| We have been thinking about this post for several days now and we keep seeing parallels between this and trans care. In the 70s, the best practices for trans healthcare involved a therapist putting p... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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09-24-2015, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: DID and identity
Post: RE: DID and identity
| When we started this job, we felt a desire to create space for ourselves. We were openly trans from the beginning and once we encountered the idea of taking hormones and a body mod and started viewin... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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09-23-2015, 12:14 AM |
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Thread: Your best ways to combat anxiety?
Post: RE: Your best ways to combat anxiety?
| We tend to go on a walk and lightly dissociate and just let our thoughts flow. An uninterrupted 30-60m time period where our mind can freely wander tends to be very useful for finding light stuff tha... |
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FreyasSpirit |
Town Square |
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08-28-2015, 02:41 AM |
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