Normalising Certain Things Can Be Dangerous - Especially Around Mental Illness And Physical Illness.

Normalising certain things can be dangerous - especially around mental illness and physical illness. A good example of this is how period pain has been normalised.

People with periods often dismiss their pain on the basis of "everyone gets a little pain", doctors dismiss painful periods, specialists dismiss them too as it's so normalised to have painful periods where it can be a symptom of severe chronic illness; endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, adenomyosis, even kinds of gynecological cancers can present as "a painful period"

Destigmatising painful periods (and honestly, pelvic health for all people) helps to push societal acceptance and awareness of the fact that those issues exist, and allows for conversation when problems arise.

Whoo! We have a proper recovery goal now beyond "let's stop wanting to die": functional multiplicity.

After many, many, hours of conversing with our therapist, we've come to the conclusion most of us don't want to lose the system - we view each other as family and it's our secret superpower when it comes to social interaction and managing our pain.

we've got a long long long way to go, but it's nice to know where we're going 😎

I bet it's confusing talking to me because I'll sometimes refer to us, as..well, us but if in talking about myself I'll use "me/I".

"we're hungry" is a collective experience in the body (even if individual alters feel it differently)

Whereas "I'm bored" is an individual experience, specific to the alter fronting.

But sometimes I'll be talking and I'll say "we did x last week, I remember it really well!" Because...we, the body, did it, but I have individual experience with it.

Plus sometimes I'm so used to saying me/I that I slip up and say the wrong thing 🤣

[This post was directly inspired by @toxicity-2003, thank u]

shout out to introjects who AREN'T fictional media or based on famous people: introjects of friends, family, abusers etc

the ones who fly under the radar

so, sending love to all of you especially

Tumblr says we have 8 asks, but I can only see 2. 🤨