Questions and concerns regarding the Dissociative Disorder community on 7 Cups
Purpose of this post
I have found in the past few months that many members and listeners who struggle every day with a dissociative disorder, or are an ally of the dissociative disorder community, are continuously dissatisfied with the lack of support options for them. It is proving more and more difficult to find a listener who has general knowledge of what a dissociative disorder is, and separates us from being able to get the support that we deserve. This is also an issue for other communities as well. I believe that providing education on Dissociative disorders in the training and certifications section on the listener's account would be a helpful start. We also feel very isolated when it comes to group support. We find that our issues feel as if they are pushed aside and disregarded and would love to see a plan in place to create a dissociative disorder specific group support room on the teen side (and the adult side if it is not existent already). I understand some of this may be in progress, but it would be helpful to know about that.
Now for some education on dissociative disorders.
There are a variety of dissociative disorders that many of the people on 7 Cups experience. I, personally, experience Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as DID, and previously known as "Multiple Personality Disorder". This disorder is caused by childhood trauma around the ages of 7 and 8. The child brain is still forming personality, and due to trauma, it "splits" off into what are known as "alters". These alters have a variety of roles to help protect and help the "System" (sometimes known as a "collective") function. The ages of the alters can vary from even just a baby, to 99 years old, to ageless. The gender of the alters also varies and can be the same as the body, or different, or a mix of both. These alters also are as human (some non-human but I won't get into that now) as we are. They experience emotions and such things like every other human being on earth and deserve support. I know all of you are trying your best, but we can still do better to make support available to systems. I also encourage you all to do your reasearch on dissociative disorders to help you better understand. Thank you for reading this and have a wonderful day. 
Feel free to add to this thread if you are a DID/OSDD/ or someone who experiences a dissociative disorder, or even just an ally to add more information about Dissociative disorders. Also feel free to ask questions.
Remember to always be supportive and kind in your comments. Remember to check the Posting guidelines before posting.
Tagging @Fullhousesystem @WarriorHeartsSystem @Jaxnwonderland @EmptyAquarium @Fireskye13 @KimmKimm (feel free to also @ anyone you believe could contribute to the conversation)
(This post is meant to being educational, if I have offended anyone please know that I am sorry and that I am just doing my best to help the Dissociative commmunity)
@leafy, thank you. You are brave to want to push forward for change, hope, & progress.
I feel it will always take change in accurate knowledge in the right hands of people in a way where they will believe it for any kind of change and knowledge and acceptance to take place in therefore reduce some stigmatism and reduce inaccuracies and lack of knowledge that exist and continue to exist and will exist and will continue to have to be combated.
A lot we fight with trying to educate and help in get accurate knowledge is often brought against twist big corporations with tons of money like corporations in Hollywood produce movies that everyone loves to watch it get lots of ratings and they do so by putting in what they want to make their movies get the ratings for people to watch and that often includes fictitious things for much of what they make movies of including things all mental health disorders and psychological subjects insect Indus people watch them and they believe them in and get the ideas and incorporated into their heads. This is the same thing that happens in countries with government controlling what is on people's access to the internet or news which is going on and it's level of control whether it be for in countries with more free speech with ratings and what people choose to watching what cells for money or in more control countries for what the government chooses to put out for what they want and changes information for what they want which all the above is is going on whether we want to admit it or not it's going on and it does change people's opinions and it changes people's opinions based on whatever is put out published her decided to be shed or shown or whatever.
I've been around awhile and there's a lot of changes taking place in the world now that there's not a lot of things that we as individuals can do and it's not a lot of things that we as individuals can control but we can control what we do and say and act and react and we can control how we can educate those around this what you were trying to do above and that's a great thing. But you've got to realize it your audiences based bike for here from all over the world and you never know what their approaches to whatever they've heard from wherever and however what there facing and dealing in being told in their area.
I hope you continue to go on and keep trying to educate and try to get the word out and try to get the truce out as I would so love the truth to just be out for so much so many people for so many things for this for it to be there and be real I would love that that would personally make me happy but I know what I would personally like and what is reality is not often the case.
I wish you the best and I hope that you can reach as many people as you want, and are able and can get an accurate representation of the truth in their mine's where they would least think about what you said and what others may say similar. Maybe and hopefully it will lead to its staying there and allow them to question things when other things are presented or said to them country to this are contrary to the truth and made lead to them thinking and coming up to their own thoughts and conclusions and reaching the truth on their own also which would be a great thing and not just seeking society's norm and following a societal Norm.
I realize you and probably many others think I'm talking about your crap now the side of my neck at this point but so be it. I've been around and seen a lot a lot of times and a lot of years and a lot of things come and go and come back around and some things change and some things don't and some things stick and some things just get pacified over and don't take and they wanted to make you think they take over and change but they really don't but
I do wish you the best and I wish everyone the best it wants to educate and change and help for the real truth for any and everything including and especially this is I feel deeply about this as I have did in I have c-ptsd even though it's not even recognizable in the current DSM-5 is that is controlled by the APA which makes her decisions and their influence by so and so and so and so and they have made their decisions to not include that because of who their influence by and so it's now for the DSM all under PTSD which is entirely different than c-ptsd and that's just an example of what I'm talking about was you probably still think I'm talking out the side of my neck. But take it for many years check it out and keep checking it out for many years and maybe it'll make sense for you yeah I'm not talking out the side of my neck whether it does or it doesn't you know what's right for you.
