by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health
Plurality Is Not a Disorder For decades, plurality has been shoved under psychiatric labels… Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD). Each one stamped with the word “DISORDER.” Each...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 9, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
The Trauma-Industrial Complex “Trauma-informed” has become a marketing brand. It’s stamped across websites, plastered on intake forms, sprinkled into bios. It signals, “You’re safe here. We get it.” But more often than not, it’s just branding… a sales pitch. There’s...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 8, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Therapy Harm, Trauma-informed
Dissociation Isn’t Uncommon. It’s Human. Dissociation gets treated like an uncommon, worrisome, exotic symptom… the mark of the most “severe” disorders. Dissociation is human. Everyone does it…. Zoning out while driving and realizing you’ve missed your...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 5, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality
Plurality Isn’t the Pain…Trauma Is Plurality often gets blamed for the distress we feel. Clinicians, families, and even some survivors themselves collapse the two together: “If only I wasn’t plural, I wouldn’t struggle like this.” But that’s not the truth....
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 3, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Trauma-informed
Plurality Is Born Into Shame… But Shame Isn’t Ours Plurality itself isn’t shameful. It is a way of being human… one that has existed across cultures, across histories, across lives. But in our world, plurality rarely gets the chance to exist without shame....
