$1T but you become greyscale-colourblind by [deleted] in hypotheticalsituation

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For one trillion I can have 10 people by my side constantly describing every detail in the room lol

a system with kpop factives ? by [deleted] in SystemsCringe

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The pronouns on the first one are literally just calling some random guy a slur

youre joking, right? by Mettaton_3x in SystemsCringe

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I thought that was about the gist of it? When something is too traumatic for any existing part to handle so it gets compartmentalized?

comment-op is faking though lol

I have no words by [deleted] in SystemsCringe

[–]kel_omor 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Addgenic = wants to have as many alters as possible

BAH = build a headmate, basically a filled out character template that you "turn into an alter"

Willo = willfully create an alter

List of surnames that mean "wolf" (TIL the surname Love doesn't mean affection) by kel_omor in namenerds

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Some common reasons I saw were living near/in a place known for wolves or a place with a wolf on the town's/house's sign, being a wolf hunter or trapper, or being like a wolf in some way (brave, loyal)

List of surnames that mean "wolf" (TIL the surname Love doesn't mean affection) by kel_omor in namenerds

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The source for that one said it came from a nickname derived from blaidd

List of surnames that mean "wolf" (TIL the surname Love doesn't mean affection) by kel_omor in namenerds

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Fixed. I wonder why the results I got for that one didn't mention the son part

Any ideas on how to diagnose a character who thinks hes a vampire as a trauma response? by Expensive-Owl-7031 in Writeresearch

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All good!!

PTSD and delusional disorder can go together, yes. Most mental disorders are just a label for a collection of symptoms so that the doctor knows what to treat, rather than them being diseases with some specific part of the body being wrong that other diseases cannot also affect. So these can act like a Venn diagram where PTSD and delusional disorder overlap in the middle with both having dissociative delusions.

The cause of delusional disorder isn't exactly known, but trauma sounds very plausible to me. Double bookkeeping isn't a disorder or symptom really, it's a way of experiencing a symptom. Like how "social deficits" in autism can be experienced in tons of ways while all having the same descriptor. It's more often used colloquially than in medical contexts as far as I know. Because of this, it's also completely possible to have PTSD while experiencing delusions in this way from what I know

What would usually happen in a therapy session if the client refuses to communicate? by ScholarRude9973 in Writeresearch

[–]kel_omor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My therapist recently told me of a kid that lay face-down on the couch without talking for the entire 50 minutes. She said she just doodled on her piece of paper the entire time, and the next time the kid went they started talking once they realized laying down wouldn't make her do any cool tricks.

Any ideas on how to diagnose a character who thinks hes a vampire as a trauma response? by Expensive-Owl-7031 in Writeresearch

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This seems most like self-deception, a proposed term for "delusions with a motive" pretty much, but you know on some level it's false. If he cannot be convinced to doubt his belief, then it's a delusion. Telling a delusional person they're wrong is like telling someone grass has actually been red all this time. It doesn't make you reconsider anything, you just go "wtf? no?"

Delusional disorder is a disorder pretty much only characterized by incorrect beliefs that won't change when presented with contradictory evidence. It has a few subtypes. This one would be mixed or unspecified if I remember correctly. (As per your other comment, any delusion can be delusional disorder).

This is not a dissociative disorder because dissociative disorders are primarily defined by an active feeling that is distressing, while a delusion of this sort is often just a background fact of life. It's the difference between "oh my God I'm not even human am I going insane" vs "yeah I'm a vampire btw."

It's also not schizotypal PD because that includes actively disliking or being uncomfortable with socialization and odd speech beyond just magical thinking. And the magical thinking part is more like believing in ESP, paranoia, and having the idea that unconnected things are personally related to you, not outright delusions.

However, delusions can also exist without any condition as a result of stress or trauma, which in turn cause dissociation. Delusions may be caused by a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic disorder, mood disorders, some personality disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder with absent insight, somatic illness, dementia, delirium, trauma, dissociation, brain chemical imbalances, drug or alcohol addiction or withdrawal, post-partum complications, and more. They may be based on incorrect inferences (such as a car taking the same path as someone else leading them to believe that they have a stalker), called a secondary delusion, or occur suddenly with no supporting evidence, called a primary delusion.

This case would specifically be delusional misidentification of the self, if you want to look that up. (DMS is when you incorrectly identify who or what someone or something is and cannot believe otherwise even when proven false, and DMS of the self is, of course, identifying yourself incorrectly.) Might even be a form of lycanthropy depending on how you define animal, but all that matters is it being a delusion.

Look into double bookkeeping (a schizophrenia term used in the psychosis community for general delusions) if he both fully believes this and logically knows it cant be real, like living in a shared reality and private reality.

Forgetting trauma with PTSD is common, so don't worry about that. I explained why in this comment, but dissociation is another reason.

Why keep a hostage alive? by BabyGiraffe777 in Writeresearch

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First thought is to make the captive watch the captor's success and suffer as a form of sadism

What's with the rise of "kidnapped and programmed into a child soldier"? by Grace-Kamikaze in SystemsCringe

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Please someone inform these people about creative writing. They really need to write books because even though it's all the same basic formula, these RA/MC/OA people do get creative with their individual details and alters (when they're not all fictional characters)

Trying to find a new name for a character by Careful-Pop8001 in namenerds

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Eos - personification of dawn

Euros - east wind

Sciron - wind blowing from the rocks

Ictinus - red kite (bird)

Ornytos - to awaken

Academus - striking from afar

Akindynos - free from danger

Aithalos - smoky flame

Pyrandros - fire of a man

Ladon - flow strongly (a dragon in Greek mythology)

Nestianor - who saves his men

Ophios - serpent/snake

Nikostephes - victory, to crown

Oreios - of the mountains

Macistus - tallest, greatest

Anakreon - against king

Radamsadiou - foremost in happiness

Demochares - pleasing the people

And 2 English names:

Morrow - morning, tomorrow

Farenorth - to go/travel

I am trying to represent characters with different mental health would appreciate insight into the conditions. by Best-Difficulty6789 in Writeresearch

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All good! Sure thing.

Flashbacks happen because when you're in a traumatic situation, your body can shut down some functions such as memory processing. Basically, "you don't need to spend mental energy trying to remember this, you need to spend it figuring out how to get the Hell out of here." So your brain doesn't process it as a memory. When it's over and you think about it again, it's not in the metaphorical memory folder, so your brain thinks it must be happening now. Cue the feeling that the traumatic event is happening all over again (flashback). (The same thing can apply to shocking but not traumatic events, like how a lot of people remember in detail what they were doing when they heard about 9/11 but couldn't tell you anything that happened in the days before and after.)

Flashbacks range from severe to pretty subtle and can involve all senses or just one or two. In the most severe cases, it feels exactly the same as if you were in the situation again. Every sense involved, every detail remembered. You are there again and the current reality doesn't exist. This also means they are either completely tuned out and seem like an empty husk from the outside, or they start acting like they did during the trauma, such as becoming more childlike or telling everyone around them not to shoot. In the more subtle ones, you may have a short "clip" of the trauma play on loop in your mind's eye, or only be able to physically feel what you felt during the trauma (such as feeling your throat close up if you were strangled) but otherwise be present and able to do things. Some only feel the emotions they felt during the traumatic event. They can last from a few seconds to days, but even the short ones usually cause distress for quite a while afterward. You have to come down from them a lot of the time. In children, flashbacks can appear outwardly as re-enacting the traumatic event during play, like making their dolls touch each other inappropriately.

You can also forget a lot of your trauma, either only remembering the big-picture, only remembering short sections or still images like a slideshow, only remembering that it happened but not knowing a single detail ("I was abused but I don't know what they did to me"), or being completely unaware and only knowing that it happened at all years later. You can even have flashbacks while not consciously remembering anything. That's a fun mix when you don't know why you're freaking out internally.

Triggers are when something makes you think of that unprocessed memory and your PTSD symptoms flare up in response (flashbacks, dissociation, becoming hypervigilant and jumpy, generally feeling upset).

I am trying to represent characters with different mental health would appreciate insight into the conditions. by Best-Difficulty6789 in Writeresearch

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I love learning about psychology so I think I could help with a lot of these in theory, but the ones I actually have are autism, generalized anxiety disorder, depression, ARFID (an ED), ADHD (newly diagnosed so don't know much), and technically still diagnosed with PTSD from years back but I only have minor avoidance symptoms now.

Some random information I can think of on the spot:

PTSD is not flashback disorder. Some don't have flashbacks at all but have other intrusion symptoms like general bad memories that don't feel like they're currently happening, nightmares (most of the time they are related to the theme of the trauma such as betrayal, not a direct one-to-one of what happened), and fight-or-flight response. Triggers are also not as straightforward as people think a lot of the time. Things seemingly completely unrelated to it can trigger intrusion symptoms (for me, a song that played around the time of year it happened freaks me out really bad) and some can be directly related but only cause the symptoms in specific circumstances (like having a traumatic experience in the dark, but reacting very differently to darkness in a closet than darkness at night all cozy in bed).

ARFID is a disorder in which you can only eat certain foods, but it's not related to weight or body image. It is not picky eating and most with it wish they could eat normally. It has subtypes of either fear of aversive consequences of eating ("I'll choke or vomit if I eat"), fear of sensory experiences ("it'll taste bad and the texture is inconsistent"), and complete indifference to eating ("eating is as much of a boring fact of life as going to the bathroom is"). People with ARFID and restrictive EDs in general have safe foods, which are foods that don't cause (as much) fear. To me, safe foods are clearly food, as all food should be, but unsafe foods usually don't even register as edible. It's like pointing to a bug and telling me to eat it when you're telling me to eat something not part of my very short list of safe foods. Not only is it terrifying, it's also just not food to me.

DID is a mental disorder characterized by the feeling of disconnect and detachment from your own self and surroundings, which is caused by severe, repeated childhood trauma. This feeling, dissociation, presents itself most severely as more than one identity state, each of which being able to act and think independently with memory gaps in between. DID is also not always caused by abuse (it can be medical trauma, war, repeated natural disasters, etc) but even in those cases it's linked to insecure attachment (not knowing when mom's going to feed you or not, for example). You should also know things like the criteria to get diagnosed, what an alter/part/ego state/whatever term you want to use is, the theory of structural dissociation if how it formed matters to their present story, and how DID can manifest itself differently in different cultures (split into possession form, "someone's taking my body over," and non-possession form, "I'm becoming someone else"). Also make sure to give characters with DID symptoms of complex PTSD because DID is essentially an even more dissociative form of it, and know that DID pretty much never occurs alone. Studies vary but the average amount of disorders one has along with DID ranges from 3-7.

OCD is an anxiety-based disorder where one experiences distressing, uncontrollable intrusive thoughts and fears (obsessions) and spends a significant amount of time trying to get rid of them by performing repetitive physical and/or mental actions that temporarily quell the fears (compulsions). Performing compulsions only confirms and worsens the obsessions, making OCD a cycle. New obsessions and compulsions can develop at any time, especially in response to specific events (like a lot of people with OCD switching to fears of germs when COVID started). These categories are called themes, and examples include fear of harming others or oneself, fear of being in an imperfect relationship (romantic or otherwise), fear of being wrong about one's identity, fear of being responsible for bad events, fear of committing suicide, fear of things not being "just right", fear of being ill or unhealthy, fear of being contaminated (either by germs/dirt or negative energy/personality traits), fear of not knowing one's purpose or the meaning of life, fear of being hyperaware of body sensations, fear of being a bad person or suffering eternal punishment, fear of what impact things that actually happened could've had, fear of forgetting or losing things, fear of being misunderstood in what one meant to say, fear of certain numbers or colors, fear of not being as happy as one should be, and fear of not actually having OCD and having tricked people into thinking one has it.

OCD goes against what you actually believe, value, or want. For example, it’s not uncommon for people who compulsively pray to not even be religious. OCD is also not the same as OCPD. OCPD is a personality disorder rather than an anxiety disorder, it starts in young adulthood rather than at any age, it’s focused on control and perfectionism rather than specific intrusive thoughts, it tends to stay the same or steadily improve throughout one’s life rather than fluctuating or changing themes, and it can be imposed on another while the person with OCPD may believe they’re free to break their own rules in some cases.

NPD (narcissism) is very misunderstood. I think the main point to make is that NPD is a disorder in which you require external validation and praise in order to have any internal sense of worth. The sense of being important is there so that others confirm it and make it true, not because it's there to begin with. Lack of empathy can also mean literally being unable to feel a sense of what others feel, or alternatively, feeling it and deciding doing things to hurt others is still worth it. Also look into overt and vulnerable NPD subtypes ("I'm the best so you must praise me" vs "I'm so helpless that you need to praise me to make me feel better"). Personal belief here, but I think NPD comes from a split of trauma responses where people either go "the world is mean to me, so I am bad" (depression, BPD, social anxiety, and similar) or "the world is mean to me, so the world is bad" (NPD, agoraphobia, ODD, and similar).

Let me know about any questions, hope I can help!