Another site that I find myself relating to more now than in the past is Those That Walk by The Shire. It doesn't have the best design in the world or anything-- very early-noughties complete with Comic Sans-- but I honestly never saw anyone else talk really openly in that era about having both a trauma history and an otherworld, where the world is integral to the functioning of the system and you can't deconstruct it any more than you can integrate. Some of it wouldn't be the proverbial cup of tea of people who don't have any extensive subjective world, and there's always something in me that tries to make me resist linking stuff like this because "representation! They aren't a good example!" But representation is a vicious trap, like we've mentioned a few places recently, so if you ignore the design and focus on the content, these are some that I really like:
Strangers in a Strange Land: Balancing the subjective reality with the external one. This is one of the instances where I just feel relieved to see someone else talking about this stuff even if my experiences and theories aren't quite the same as theirs. Holy War: Divisions in the multiple community 15 years ago, and... in retrospect, a depressing number of things haven't changed. What Is Your Role?: why it's a bad question to ask ISH Fraud: "I often think of the Internal Self Helper as the therapists escape hatch. If they don't know how to handle something, if they have no idea on how to deal or understand something they can call on an ISH and have them deal with it. This is their way out, their avoidance of their own issues around the client or multiplicity in general. It also provides them with an excuse for not acting or helping their clients. If they receive one that is in crisis, that can not deal with a certain situation they can put all the responsibility onto the client themselves, or specifically the Internal Self Helper." Yuuuuuup. Definitely seen this. Sex and Children: Everyone should freaking read this. EVERYONE
Also, apparently they had a therapist who convinced them that their memories of religious abuse were SRA because all religious abuse has to be SRA. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else openly talk about this before without going the whole "multipul personalitys dont exits" route.
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Date: 2018-07-27 10:26 am (UTC)Strangers in a Strange Land: Balancing the subjective reality with the external one. This is one of the instances where I just feel relieved to see someone else talking about this stuff even if my experiences and theories aren't quite the same as theirs.
Holy War: Divisions in the multiple community 15 years ago, and... in retrospect, a depressing number of things haven't changed.
What Is Your Role?: why it's a bad question to ask
ISH Fraud: "I often think of the Internal Self Helper as the therapists escape hatch. If they don't know how to handle something, if they have no idea on how to deal or understand something they can call on an ISH and have them deal with it. This is their way out, their avoidance of their own issues around the client or multiplicity in general. It also provides them with an excuse for not acting or helping their clients. If they receive one that is in crisis, that can not deal with a certain situation they can put all the responsibility onto the client themselves, or specifically the Internal Self Helper." Yuuuuuup. Definitely seen this.
Sex and Children: Everyone should freaking read this. EVERYONE
...they also discuss in-system deaths and system ghosts in other places on the site.
Also, apparently they had a therapist who convinced them that their memories of religious abuse were SRA because all religious abuse has to be SRA. I don't think I've ever seen anyone else openly talk about this before without going the whole "multipul personalitys dont exits" route.
-Istevia