can we stop perpetuating the phrase “healthy multiplicity” because the implication is that it’s unhealthy to have DID. While DID is definitely disordered and a mental illness, and I suppose the opposite of the word “ill” is “healthy” the implication is that we’re causing harm to ourselves by having trauma-based multiplicity. Can you remove it from your post, please so we can stop spreading it around?
Yeah, I think you’re right, it is probably time to retire this one. Like ‘otakukin’ before fictionkin, ‘healthy multiplicity’ was the active and accepted term many years ago when I was active in the community, and it has fallen by the wayside in the intervening years, and probably for good reason. I’ve already removed it from the post.
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