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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
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11:38 pm - Possibly of interest
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| Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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8:57 pm - Layman's Guide - site error
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zyfron
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Just noticed this: We were visiting the Layman's Guide earlier today, and none of the images are showing up!
While this doesn't particularly detract from the information on the site, it does give it an "unfinished" look.
Are others getting the same problem? http://www.karitas.net/blackbirds/layman/
We weren't sure where to send this information, but we figured someone here would know :)
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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1:05 pm - Here, this one is actually much better.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGNHmHrrXqY
We used to watch this show all the time. This was made in the 70s, after Sybil but before the Milligan case hit the headlines, and before all the upset and the big scandals in the 80s. It's pretty good, especially compared to what we have to put up with today.
It made us feel like being plural wouldn't be such a bad thing, years before I got up to acknowledging that there actually were other people with me here. Note the dialogue, where the shrink said two entirely different people, and a bunch of other things they wouldn't let you say on tv today!
First aired December 9, 1976.
current mood:  sleepy
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| Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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6:55 pm - Membership list
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| Thursday, March 19th, 2009
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1:23 pm - karitas.net is back
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| Saturday, March 14th, 2009
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10:36 pm - Regarding 'Tara' and nearly all other media portrayals
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ksol1460
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Every time there's another series, or another movie, or another gagulent remake, or another whatever about multiples, and it's always the same thing even when it pretends not to be, and a number of people online will respond with "I liked it, it showed the hell of MPD as it really is", "they did it correctly," " it can show non-multiples what it can be like to be a multiple." or "it was an accurate portrayal of DID". I've even seen this said about One Life To Live. To which I can only reply, "You mean you regularly go around behaving like an out of control psychotic hell-bent on murder?"
The following is a paraphrase from a website talking about lousy stereotyped media portrayals of Turks:
"At least, even though it's another Crazy Multiple in the same old mold, there are tiny, tiny nuances of 'humanity' that slip out, and it’s these little crumbs that make such a portrayal bearable. (In other words, in an environment of near-total hostility against multiples, anything short of total monstrousness, we multiples should be grateful for? Exactly what am I pathetically suggesting..?)"
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| Friday, January 23rd, 2009
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11:44 am - More on "United States of Tara"
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| Monday, January 19th, 2009
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11:50 pm - A friend writes:
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"Upon Martin Luther King's arrest a reporter shoved a microphone in his face and asked 'What is it you want, Dr. King?' Dr. King answered 'My dignity, I want my dignity.'"
- from A Dream Achieved, CNN's Larry King
As for myself, I am holding out for THE DREAM for ALL. Call me idealistic, call me crazy, just do not call me a quitter, or a settler, ever.
Congrats to Diablo Cody and Stephen Spielberg and actors and actresses and everyone involved in The United States of Tara, for being a part of change, for having the boldness to take a step for awareness. I will continue working towards more accurate portrayals. No matter how many experts and grads of MPD/DID you bring out, we as a group will be holding out for a docudrama.
Meet Showtime's so-called Consultant/Expert on MPD/DID! Well, to some people he may be an "expert", however after watching the entire video, hearing out Dr. Richard Kluft again, years after having met him in person, I am left still cynical.
So are older people and others in this group -- those of us who tried the "streams to oceans" approach to integration. Holy God Almighty I/we tried it all for the sake of becoming "OKAY" and then some! -- all to convince our biological family that our children would be safe with us once we were Integrated! And we failed over and over. Only co-operation, co-consciousness, co-dwelling, and communication saved us.
Will we as a group continue asking for the best Media portrayals worthy of TV? Of course! Dr. Kluft says "this is not a docudrama, and yes this is a approach with laughter". Still, I'm holding out for a docudrama approach because with all the multiples or plural-groups we have ever met, online and off, NONE of them resemble the characters in that show -- who are modeled on people Dr. Kluft claims to see two to three times a week in his practice. Not to this extreme or irresponsible nature shown.
When we were first diagnosed many years ago, Dr. Kluft interviewed us. We experienced him as a sweet man, a genuine man with right intentions. But he made too many sweeping generalizations, defining all of our experiences without ever asking us. We were categorized according to his definitions. We were told what our experience was, so was the bio-family. They are still being told what our experiences are, and not by us. We see him as a lovely man, who is trying hard. In many ways, he is close to explaining some people's experience, especially with DID, and he is way off in other areas.
Here's the video Showtime is providing for people who want to "learn more about DID". http://www.sho.com/site/tara/did.do
current mood:  Obama!
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| Saturday, December 27th, 2008
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3:32 am - A Topic for Discussion: Activism and Population
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A disclaimer: This question is not intended to be necessarily immediately relevant to any of our activities, nor do we expect a definite answer from anyone. However, we feel it is something which bears consideration and we apologize if the same issue has already been addressed previously.
With that out of the way: Pavilion is, as far as we know, the only organization actively promoting activism towards Healthy Multiplicity. I view us primarily as a civil rights movement in its infancy. Over the past century, other civil rights movements have won great victories and have learned a great deal from one another about how to get things done when it comes to activism.
Now, I must admit that we are woefully ignorant of the history of activism outside the United States, but in the US, at least, Feminism and equal rights for blacks are two continuing movements which are frequently looked at as highly successful as movements go. The gay rights movement, though less progressed, has also won great victories in recent decades. I assume you all know this, but our observation is this:
There are, in the United States, far more women (51%*) than blacks (12%*), and far more blacks than gays (2%*, though I suspect that this statistic is likely to be under-reported). There are also far more gays than transgendered people (who are currently enjoying far less success at civil rights than any of the other groups mentioned.) Though there are no reliable numbers that we know of regarding multiples as a demographic, it seems probable that there are fewer of us (on a body count) than there are transgendered people. Possibly considerably fewer.
So the question is this: The women's, blacks', and gays' civil rights movements all focus around groups who make up a considerable portion of the population. Multiples, in all likelihood, make up only a fraction of a percent. That being the case, is a fundamentally different set of tactics required? Are these past civil rights movements relevant models for us to look to for inspiration and guidance, and if not is there some other, more relevant movement we might look to?
*numbers from http://www.adherents.com/adh_dem.html
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| Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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4:02 am - A possible Issue #2 of the zine
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| Sunday, November 16th, 2008
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12:37 am - Houston, we have zine!
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Hi folks! Well, it took a roughly twelve-hour artistic bender and a lot of help from a bunch of contributing systems, but we have a multi zine! I sold five copies of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! Issue #1 at Wellington Zinefest today, and I've just finished adding a digital copy to my website. It includes poetry, comics, and articles ranging subjects including gender, education, discovery, and soulbonding.
Here, have the link to it! I'd like to thank all the systems who contributed, offered assistance, and especially Rhymers for becoming my pusher and getting me in contact with numerous systems at the same time. Thanks; it wouldn't be here without you.
Note that this zine, unless you really feel the need to give me money, is FREE. F-R-E-E. Download it, read it, print it and staple it yourselves, give out copies to your friends, your family, your dog, whoever. All I ask is that if you distribute it elsewhere, send word back to me, because I'd like to hear about what happens to it.
Also, a few random notes: sorry about it being a .doc, but I couldn't turn it into a convenient HTML page. There are two versions, the read version and the print version. The read version has my article in it for now, at the very end, and the print version doesn't; there just wasn't enough space. Also, the print version is ONLY for printing. I had to rearrange all the pages so that if you print them out, you can just take them, fold them, staple them, and read it like a book. It's complete gibberish if you try to read it on the monitor. Plus, it's for A4 size paper, for New Zealand printers, so if you intend to print in in America, take the paper size into account.
Thank you guys so much for the support! I'm hoping to make another issue with the leftover material I couldn't work into Issue #1, depending on the response I continue getting. Enjoy the zine! x-posted to multiplicity
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| Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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9:48 am - Operation ZINE MACHINE!
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baaing_tree
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HAI GAIZ
We've discovered that this Saturday (your Friday, US peeps) is Zine Day, with a zine convention. This would be the PERFECT time for us to pop out that multi zine we mentioned.
Some of you guys mentioned writing something for us. Anyway you could get it to us before that time? We already have some stuff from Rhymers, Astraea, Elmindreda, and Pao, and can work some stuff up ourselves, but it'd still be a pretty skinny zine.
In case you missed the first one, anything even slightly plural-related goes. Soulbonding, the methodology of your gateway, coming out, your opinions on therapy, inner workings, day-to-day life, how it relates to GLBT issues, whatever. You are not required to write on any one subject, or be any certain kind of plural. You don't even have to identify as plural; if you're singlet and want to write on it, that's awesome too! The only requirement I do have is that you are willing to believe that someone can be plural and live okay like that.
Thanks! ZINE TIME!
--Alter Bob
x-posted to multiplicity, personal LJ, and pavilionhall
current mood: productive
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| Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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5:10 pm - Know your psych drugs. (Please.)
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Just heard that Abilify has been approved for pediatric use now.
Since it's already been approved for conditions other than psychosis (it's an antipsychotic that can cause tardive dyskenisia and massive weight gain) , we can only guess at the horrible implications.
We have a son (age 21) who still deals with the leftover effects of the Ritalin we (so mistakenly) allowed him to be put on as a child.
If we'd had any clue that Ritalin is synthetic cocaine, there would have been no way in hell. Also if we'd known it can cause permanent facial tics. But we didn't know.
(Of *course* the kid could concentrate - except for his face twitching. People on cocaine, can concentrate *very* well! Sometimes on minute details that nobody around them gives a sh**************t about!)
It scared us when we heard Abilify was approved to treat depression. Today we've heard that it's approved for pediatric use.
We can't help but think there are parents who don't know the ramifications of allowing their children to be put on this drug.
(On a brighter note - Barack Obama *has* been elected President. Maybe we will see universal health care in our lifetime. Maybe the pharmaceutical companies will have to stop harming people in order to rake in more money.....and maybe we will see *that* in our lifetime.)
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| Monday, October 27th, 2008
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6:36 pm - So, who's up for fighting some power?
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Hey folks. We're currently in Wellington, New Zealand, and we've found a bookstore that's likely willing to sell some stuff related to healthy multiplicity. It's a feminist/anarchist/general "fight the power" place, and they're more than willing to sell dinky little homemade jobs made on a copy machine and stapled together. They already have things by the Icarus Project; long as we can come up with quality, I'm willing to believe we can sell more neurodiversity stuff to them. All I have to do is walk in and hand it over; I've already done it with our comic book.
So, to stand next to the home staple-jobs on being asexual and vegan, or first punk concert experiences, or DIY gynecology, we're hoping to add some material on multiplicity. Note this is non-profit: I am going to be selling this for pretty much the cost it takes me to print them. AKA: jack. It'll be strict black and white--I can't afford color printing.
There's so little material on plurality that I see no reason to restrict the topic. So I'm just going to sit here and ask you to give me something: articles, comic strips, essays, anything that you think relates to your experience; I want to show that we are not the only ones like this. Besides, being a sole contributor makes me feel vain. We plan to contribute writings of our own, and are willing to do a bit of artwork for it too, depending how it goes.
So, anything about "the plural experience," you send it, I'll see if I can take it. Soulbonding, gateway systems, medians, multiples, those who identify MPD/DID and are willing to believe they can live just fine regardless. You want to mention your day-to-day living, your healing process, your experiences with stupid (or smart) therapists, your coming-out experiences, your internal workings? Sock it to me. All of it. I can sort it out and find some sense of order and organization later. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zyfron, you guys have the scraps of your old Manifold zine you might be willing to send down to me?
Thanks. Let's see what happens.
--Rogan... sorta
(x-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) multiplicity and personal LJ)
EDIT: No clue if there are any singlets on this comm, but any thoughts or experiences they have with the plural community I welcome also.
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| Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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4:54 pm - Wikipedia
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zyfron
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Wikipedia has two primary articles on Multiple Personality - one page entitled "DID" which covers the diagnostic criterea, history, and comparison with the international diagnostic of MPD. Another page is entitled "Multiple Personality Controversy" which covers the basics of the controversy which has historically surrounded the diagnosis. The controversy page does focus largely on the controversy over whether or not multiple personalities can exist at all. However, the controversy page used to have a fairly sizable section (two or three paragraphs) on Healthy Multiplicity. This section was recently cut down to a mere four sentances, three of which are more about Truddi Chase than about healthy multiplicity itself, and Astraea's Web has been removed from the refferences section - none of the current refferences look remotely encouraging.
In short, I believe that we should try to remedy this situation in some way - either by epanding the Healthy Multiplicity section of this article, or by creating a new entry specificially for healthy multiplicity or non-disordered multiplicity.
We (I) are not regular wikipedia editors, so are a little shaky on the protocol - but I've looked at the history and comments for the article ( and was happy to find some familiar screennames ) and have determined that the primary focus of the current article is definitely about the controversy of whether or not multiplicity exists at all, and there is concern that Healthy Multiplicity has been given "undue weight." From what I can tell, an entry on healthy multiplicity was created in the past, but was deleted because there was only on primary contributor and the subject was considered to be "marginal."
Would it be possible to create a new wikipedia, this time with several of us serving as editors at first and hopefully picking up other contributors with differing points of view (there are wikipedia policies about that) in order to convince ikipedia that we are not to marginal to be included?
If anyone is more familiar with wikipedia processes and policies, your advice would be greatly appreciated.
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| Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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11:37 am - Sybil remake airs tonight
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| Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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10:28 pm - Observations - Herschel Walker
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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1:07 pm - Sanjay Gupta Contact Information
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From an email correspondent:
"Look here for a direct addrees with phone number and email address:
http://www.neurosurgery.emory.edu/FacultyGupta.htm
"Or go to Emory University of Medicine in Atlanta and put his name in search:
http://www.emory.edu/search.cfm
"if the other one does not work .
"His office hours are there as well as phone number, address, and email (he is on staff
there 2 days a week).
"Someone should do a documentary [getting the truth out there] if Dr Gupta is going to show violent high-profile people like this. I respect his interest... but yes, I knew about this NFL dude. I had seen him on an inteview he gave a while back and hated it. I remember well hearing of his wife being terrified -- waking up with a knife to her throat.
"He also gave an interview on a Trinity Broadcasting Network religious show which made it appear as though he was "delivered" (!!) and she prayed so much but eventually divorced him. His interviews have been some of the most harmful -- even more harmful then the Sybil portrayal, because of his constant talk of violent 'personalities' like THE GENERAL.
"This is not the model we want out there. In fact, this is why whenever I am in a medical hospital I get treated like I might be a pathological, violent person [because the staff knows of my MPD/DID diagnosis].
"I saw the comment page and was perplexed that so many SO's of multiples responded saying 'how difficult it has been for family'."
current mood: gloomy
current music: Cubs 1, Brewers 1 bottom of 6th
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| Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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12:52 pm - "Herschel Walker's Alter Personalities"
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My grandmother brought this to my attention.
It appears I'm not the only one who thinks this is messed up either. There have already been people commenting on this article who are saying this doctor is spreading misinformation, fearmongering, etc. The comment I submitted is below, but you won't be able to see it on the webpage until it's approved by the site's moderators:
"Jenny -
I was told by a family member to look at this article, and I’m just shaking my head. I’m really relieved to see other people voicing concerns over the bad impression this article gives of those who have been diagnosed with MPD/DID. Also, it’s refreshing to see that I’m not the first person to comment on this that was diagnosed as being DID, did not integrate, and has a productive life now.
I share my headspace with 15 other people. Even though I developed PTSD symptoms in my teenage years, signs of me not being “alone in here” have been evident to family members since the age of 5. I requested a full psychiatric assessment at the age of 19, as I already knew what was going on, but felt I needed validation. After diagnosis, I continued treatment with a psychiatrist, which didn’t help. I became more dissociative and depressed when taking anti depressants and anti anxiety medication. I decided to go another route: acceptance. Help my people learn how to communicate with one another and get along. Deal with the PTSD as is with psychiatric social workers and peer counselors. I ate well and exercised, meditated, did CBT, and group therapy. If later on down the line it wasn’t working and my people still wanted to integrate, “we” would go that route.
It’s been 9 years. I don’t have blackouts. My people get along as well as any family would. I’m in a successful long-term relationship, I’m able to work, and I’m a parent as well. Most who I tell are surprised, saying that I “seem so normal”. I have to be careful with who I tell though, because sensationalized media articles like this one make the average person think that multiples are dangerous and crazy."
-Kennedy & co.
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| Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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10:59 pm - Seen this?
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nostalgic