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The Adventures Of Polyphony
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**Note: This Friday (26th June) we won't be uploading a video as we have been focusing our energy on the BLM movement and making resources. Thank you to anyone sticking with us! We'll upload this months video as soon as we can, it's a "day in quarantine with DID" vlog thing :) **
Just another DID system putting their life out on UA-cam, we make videos about every aspect of our lives that means our DID, mental health in general, our queer-ness, you name it we probably want to make a video about it. You can have a mooch around our channel or you can not, we just (try to) make the videos from then on its down to you.
We are in the process of trying to caption our videos, please bare with us!
Just another DID system putting their life out on UA-cam, we make videos about every aspect of our lives that means our DID, mental health in general, our queer-ness, you name it we probably want to make a video about it. You can have a mooch around our channel or you can not, we just (try to) make the videos from then on its down to you.
We are in the process of trying to caption our videos, please bare with us!
Creating, adapting and keeping a routine in uncertain times | Mental Health Management
A clear routine in the midst of a pandemic I'm sure is feeling quite illusive to many people, everything is constantly changing as new rules come and go and for me that can be quite distressing and have a negative impact on my mental health, so I thought I’d share a few tips for setting, adapting and keeping to a routine that I hope can help some people feel a little more settled and stable. Having a clear idea of what my week might look like has always helped me immensely to stay well and manage my mental health, it can be hard to get into the habit of creating a routine but for me having that constant really helps with our anxiety, moods and mental health in general. Hope you are all well and keeping safe, thank you to everyone watching and subscribing, we really appreciate it :) ~ Amber
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If you fancy seeing more of us as a general human beings on social media, here are your guys:
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Or if you'd rather look at us trying to be swanky artist’s and activist’s, then these are your chaps:
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Or if you dislike us and never wanna see anything else to do with us again then that little back arrow some place on your screen is were you wanna head, no sweat :)
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If you fancy seeing more of us as a general human beings on social media, here are your guys:
www.tumblr.com/blog/amberandco
amberweyman...
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Or if you'd rather look at us trying to be swanky artist’s and activist’s, then these are your chaps:
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Or if you dislike us and never wanna see anything else to do with us again then that little back arrow some place on your screen is were you wanna head, no sweat :)
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How's everyone actually doing? 'Cause this is weird.
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A little check in from us, it’s a real weird time and it seems a ton of people are struggling, including us. So, you can chill with us for 6 and a half minutes if that might help or distract you, we basically just talk about how this is all weird and how we’re coping, shit like that. Please do feel free to use the comments to say how you are actually doing (just be mindful of what you’re saying...
So everything's changed and you feel like crap? | 3 Simple Anxiety and Low Mood Management Tips
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Here's 3 simple tips for managing anxiety and low moods, or stabilising yourself, or helping with stress....they're quite universal. I share a breathing technique, what Gottman's Task's are and how to change the feel of the space you may be stuck in. These tips and this video aren't specific to the current pandemic happening but it felt especially important to share them now as I know a lot of ...
A day in the life with DID | Dissociative Identity Disorder System
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When we tell people we have Dissociative Identity Disorder they often ask what DID is like to live with, along with other questions about how many times we switch, who is out most, how long are alters typically out for, what we do with our days, and so on..So we thought we'd film a random day in the hope to answer some of those questions. Feel free to join a few of us for a little day in the li...
Happy System Pride Day! | Dissociative Identity Disorder System
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Happy System Pride Day! Sometimes being proud of ourselves can be tricky but we think there are so many things worth being proud of as a system and as individuals, so Zacc has a little chat about some of those things and just generally gives a little PSA about pride. Hope everyone has a wonderful day, thank you so much to The Entropy System for creating it! We got to 100 subscribers just a few ...
December is hard and that's okay | Mental Health in Winter
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It's okay to not be jolly and find the New Year terrifying, it's okay if you're struggling - unfortunately there isn't a magnetic field around the month of December that repels any negatives feelings and mental health struggles. We have a short chat about mental health and well-being around the Christmas holidays and coming up for the new year, it's such a tricky time for many of us and we don'...
Zacc's Intro + Thoughts on Joining the System | Meet an Alter | Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Meet an alter in our DID system, Zacc, he introduces himself and then has a chat about being reluctant to be a part of our system, tells the story of how he got discovered and what positives have come out of him deciding to open himself up to the system and become more involved. What is DID? PODS Website - information.pods-online.org.uk/what-is-dissociative-identity-disorder-did/ Mind Website -...
A message to other systems | Dissociative Identity Disorder and OSDD
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A little message that I wished I could’ve heard when I first discovered I had DID; I (Amber) have a small chat about things I’d have liked to have known about being a system and having headmates when I first found out about them and was struggling to accept them. It was therapy day when I filmed and I’m a little dissociated so please excuse my appearance and mild slowness in speaking. I also ha...
Ashley's Intro + Chat's on Being Out in School | Meet an Alter | Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Hi I'm Ashley, I hope you enjoy my little intro video! I talk a bit about who I am, what my role in our system is and chat about my experience with being a DID system in school and having to pretend to be our host ALOT of the time. I'm sorry we haven’t uploaded in a while, there has been a lot going on, and this probably isn’t an exciting enough video to upload after nearly 6 months of nothing ...
Jake's Intro + Accepting Who You Are | Meet An Alter | Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Hello everyone, Jake here, hope you enjoy my intro video. I tell youse a little bit about myself, chat about my experience with learning how to accept who I am and tell a few anecdotes about my antics ;) I am a little bit out of it at the beginning of the video so I apologise for the slow start but bear with me and I get a bit more grounded after Jackie (Amber’s mum) has come in, I could hear t...
Happy System Pride Day! (Switch on Camera)
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Alice, Katie, Amber, Micheal and Jake send out some System Pride filled messages, all of us here send out positivity and pride to you all! We have also changed our system/UA-cam name from 'AmberandCo.' to 'The Adventures of Polyphony' so don't worry it's the same system just a new name that we feel represents us better :)
A Very Honest Declutter | #1 Mental Health and Being Realistic
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I really want to live a lower impact life and part of that for me is living more minimally but the process of decluttering is pretty overwhelming for me and I figure it must be overwhelming for others to so I thought I’d document my process in the hope I might find other people on a similar journey to me. And yes I know this video is from November and its currently January, Christmas really hit...
Micheal's Intro + Some Stories | Meet an Alter | Dissociative Identity Disorder
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CW (9:35 - 10:40) Brief chat surrounding self-harm Hey, I’m Micheal and I made a little video about me (including some semi-tangent stories), I guess you could call me a persecutor but I'm 1000% less scary than that name makes me sound, I talk a little bit about that and how I got discovered. Feel free to ask me any qyestions about me, our inner world, our system, etc! :) I hope my first video ...
Gender Journal #5 - Questioning My Gender As Part Of A System (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
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Figuring out your gender is kinda tricky when you have a bunch of people sharing your body, all with there own individual genders and feelings towards what make them comfortable and uncomfortable; so I thought I'd chat about it 'cause it stresses me right out. I'd like to make it clear that by talking about these difficulties I am in no way invalidating the struggle of questioning your gender a...
Accepting my Diagnosis and Experiences - Dissociative Identity Disorder
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I have been working A LOT lately on accepting my experiences with dissociation, especially my diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I thought I’d have a chat about it all to re-enforce in my head that it is real and valid and a totally okay thing to experience. Note: Just to make this super clear; my struggle with accepting my Dissociative Identity Disorder was/is just that, trouble a...
The Dissociation Tag | My Experiences with Dissociation
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The Dissociation Tag | My Experiences with Dissociation
The Dissociation Tag | How to Participate and Unpacking the Questions
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The Dissociation Tag | How to Participate and Unpacking the Questions
The Dissociation Tag | What is it, how it came about and putting the website live!
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The Dissociation Tag | What is it, how it came about and putting the website live!
Gender Journal #4 - Feeling Mighty Poo-ey
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Gender Journal #4 - Feeling Mighty Poo-ey
Using Creativity To Help Raise Awareness | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 7
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Using Creativity To Help Raise Awareness | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 7
Using Creativity For Problem Solving And Stress Reduction | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 6
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Using Creativity For Problem Solving And Stress Reduction | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 6
The First Spoken Word Poem I Ever Wrote | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 5
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The First Spoken Word Poem I Ever Wrote | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 5
Personal Creativity | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 4
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Personal Creativity | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 4
Work-Life Balance In The Arts | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 3
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Work-Life Balance In The Arts | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 3
The Stress of Perfectionism In The Arts | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 2
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The Stress of Perfectionism In The Arts | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 2
We Stress Because We Care | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 1
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We Stress Because We Care | Mental Health Awareness Week | Day 1
Gender Journel #3 - Non-Binary in Dance
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Gender Journel #3 - Non-Binary in Dance
Recovery Scrapbooking - Feeling Overwhelmed
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Recovery Scrapbooking - Feeling Overwhelmed
Trying to Explain Derealisation and Depersonalisation
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Trying to Explain Derealisation and Depersonalisation
Thank you for sharing your life. ❤ I have DID as well, and I personally feel like this resonates with me so much. Its nice seeing another system going about their life so calmly! It makes me feel at peace. ❤
It’s amazing how people like this can manage to conjure multiple fake identities, yet still can’t manage a single ounce of personality.
I know this video is old but I just want everyone in the system to know that I'm proud of every single one of you and y'all are all awesome and amazing and funny charming witty just awesome kind smart I just want all of you to know that if you see this have a wonderful day and I hope all of you are doing well
I didn't add this cause I'm sure you know there are boxers that women can wear that are very comfortable. And you can wear them with hair or without..
I think this video is too old for y'all to see this comment, but I really hope you're doing good and I hope the whole system is doing well and I truly love all y'all videos. They help a lot so thank you for sharing y'all's experience
Faking DID is cringe as hell
Ducks! :)
When you say yor system is like a family, this remebers me of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). Last years I read a lot about this theory that says that everyone has an inner family system in their head. Of course, people with D.I.D. or O.S.D.D. are a particular case. Now I think I probably have OSDD, but the fact that I had already accepted the ideia of having an inner family system, because of what I read about IFS, helps me a lot.
Oh okay that sounds really interesting, I think I have heard of that before actually, I'll have to look more into it! Are they any good resources you can recommend for learning about it? I'm really glad it could help you accept your potential OSDD :) ~ Amber
@@theadventuresofpolyphony8032 yeeees, I learned about IFS watching the videos of Peter Gerlach!
Hi half sister 😇
It is wren
If you remember me
Oh my goodness, no way, hello! It's so cool to hear from you! How are you doing?
Oh, i love the definition of your name! What a great name for a system. It's something that's been strange for me to wrap my head around that even i myself am a "part" but at the same time. It's a beautiful thing!
Ahh thanks! Yeah we like it (even though it’s long and we sometimes have to explain it! Haha) and yeah I agree, it was definitely strange for me to but I enjoy now that we all feel more equal, if that makes sense 😊 ~ Amber 💛
@@theadventuresofpolyphony8032 totally makes sense. Im at a point of accepting I'm a system and now it's actually a really amazing thing. It's complicated. But in so glad to have found your videos and this UA-cam community.
Yeah I found it a tough process to accept but it is pretty incredible, and definitely complicated! Ah that's lovely of you to say thank you! The UA-cam community really helped me figure it all out, also I found Instagram a great place to connect with other systems! (feel free to add/chat to us on there to!) :) ~ Amber
@@theadventuresofpolyphony8032 ok, awesome will do :)
Great tips, thank you! There’s another version on the breathing in a shape and that’s the triangle where you (1)breath in, (2)breath out, (3)hold your breath and then you start over. Holding your breath after breathing in may exacerbate the anxiety so this is a tip for those who aren’t helped by the square/rectangle. :)
Ooh thank you! I've not heard of this one, I'll have to give it a try. I do find holding my breath can be unhelpful if I'm feeling particularly anxious which is why I tend to prefer doing the rectangle one so I can just breathe continuously. This one sounds really helpful for that, thank you and feel free to leave anymore tips you might have! :D
Pleasure to meet you Micheal
Micheal says thank you and it's a pleasure to meet you to! (Sorry I can't get him to come far enough forward to actually reply rn) ~ Zacc
Hello Jake!
Hello! Nice to meet ya :) ~ Jake (and Zacc to sorry I'm hovering haha)
i find it so cool and intersting that you use different names for when two or more alters are co-con! we almost did that but then someone sorta shyed away from it lol
I'm probably about to embarrass myself now cause' I'm not actually sure what you mean *face palm*, would you mind explaining? Sorry haha, thank you for watching tho :D ~Zacc
@@theadventuresofpolyphony8032 I assume this person thought that "Amber (Alice & Katie Co-con)" meant that Amber is the name you use when Alice and Katie are in the front together?
like a combination name
@spinninglegends @Duck Facye Ah, that would make sense and sounds like a really cool idea. We actually meant that I ( Amber) was out and Alice and Katie were both close by but I really like the idea of a combination name! ~ Amber
You seem pretty chill man, wassup
Whats up, always up for a chat if you wanna find us on Instagram! (Also cheers for watching my lil' intro) ~Zacc
The Adventures Of Polyphony Bro! I’d totally be down to chat with you!
Sweet! Our main insta is @not_just_amberweyman feel free to hit us up (we also have a system one for system friends?) :) ~Zacc
Thanks to you all! We really enjoyed your vlog😊💗
Ahh thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it <3
I hope your system enjoy the day c:
Thank you! We did enjoy the day :) Hope you had a good day to (whether you're a system or not) <3 ~ Zacc and Amber
Shake it up, be fearless. 🤘 Thank you for sharing. Genderqueer new dancer here with zero training, looking for where to start.
Thank you for this! Definitely learning to be fearless, I feel like you gotta be with things like this! Ooh I dunno where abouts you're based but where we are there are tons of classes for people new to dance and loads of community projects, which are a great way to get started. Feel free to dm us if you have any questions about finding classes or anything! Our insta should be in the description? :) ~ Amber
Just found your channel. Really cool video!!!!
Ahh thank you!! :D ~ Amber
As the host of our system, I was very surprised to find out that a large part of my dysphoria came from the fact that I actually did not identify with the body. In other words, just as other alters did not see it as "their" body, nor did I feel it was my own. Turns out, there is another system member who actually identifies more strongly with the body, yet she doesn't front all that often. I just wanted to share and let you know I found your experience relatable. I just came to terms with my nonbinary identity myself. You are valid not matter what! :) -M
Thank you for this, yeah I am starting to feel similarly tbh, I find it so hard to work out sometimes if its me not identifying with the body or if it's someone else influence, it's so so reassuring to here that there are people that feel the same though! ~ Amber
We will probably film a video today answering some of these questions! Such an exciting idea! Thank you for your dedication to the community ❤️ -M
That would be amazing to see!! I look forward to seeing it if you do create something! Also, if you have any feedback about the questions or anything please do let us know! <3 ~ Amber
Hey Zacc, it’s Sofia from the concert in Bristol 😁 was cool to meet you and glad you’re enjoying things a little more now you’re out in the system
Hey Sofia, it was cool to meet you to - I had a great time! I’ve been listening to SAINT PHNX that supported, they’re actually bloody good I think! Thank you, reluctantly I’m having a pretty good time tbh! Hopefully we’ll see each other again at somepoint! ~ Zacc
Say whaaaat! Another Mr Travel Man :> I do basically the same thing. I also never thought I’d get around to being out and being myself a lot but here I ammm and no regrets honestly •River
Oh no way, two of a kind! Yeah it’s quite nice actually right? Still kinda feels a bit scary if I’m honest but I’m glad I’m doing it 😊~ Zacc
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I was about the same age as you when I suffered depersonization which bought on a panic attack I must say Out of all the people that have explained depersonization on UA-cam you nailed what it is really like remember it doesn’t last forever stay strong (:
Thank you, this comment really made me smile. I hope you are doing okay with it all, can really be scary, stay well :)
It seems like it's a really harmful trap for people with DID or OSDD-1 to fall into to have their doubts bolstered, especially if you have amnesia. You're fighting against a tide of misinformation, invalidation, social rejection, and you're supposed to accept yourself anyway? Doesn't help when even the medical professionals get it wrong! But they're human, too, I suppose... that's why I'm waiting to find a specialist, I want to find my own way for a bit. Very interesting video, I will definitely check out that playlist.
Yeah I agree, especially as a lot of systems generally face a lot of denial and thoughts that they are faking anyway, it doesn't help to have those worries seemingly confirmed by the outer world. I hope your search for a specialist is going well, it can be so valuable to have someone who understands and can explain things you don't understand yourself :) And thank you for saying it was interesting, always worry I'm just rambling away haha <3 ~ Amber
I have D.I.D. too. Nice to meet you!!:)
Helloo, nice to meet you to :)
god i love ur accent, ur manerisms, ur priorities, ur dress sense, ur inner world appernce, ur like........ aura lol, this is a rly nice vid 🙈 u seem like ud b rly fun 2 hang out w. can i ask if ambers mum knows abt ur DID ? i cnt tell if wht she said hinted at it or whethr im just being silly lol. if thts 2 personal pls tell me 2 piss off dhdgs -alice
Hello Alice! This was a lovely comment to come out to, I'm all flattered! I like to think I can be pretty fun to hang out with yeah ;D It's not to personal don't worry, Amber's mum does know yeah, we got diagnosed in an inpatient ward so they told us, Amber's mum and step-dad in the discharge meeting, so they all kinda found out together (although it had been mentioned to Amber a few times before the meeting) :D - Jake
Happy System Pride Day! :D
Thank you, you to! :D
Heeyyyyy it was awesome to see all you guys 👌🏻 We’re proud of you too!! Also omg Jake’s accent and general aura is fucking great more of that pls •River
Aww thanks!! We really enjoyed making a video with a few more of us in :D And haha yeah his energy is a great one to have around, we are editing his intro video atm so there will be more of him coming :D ~ Amber
💖 Happy System Pride day :) Wonderful video!
Aw thank you! And happy System Pride Day to you <3
Nice to meet you, Micheal! I think you'd get on with our River, he's around your age and loves art too 😁 We're really interested in hearing more about your inner world 😯
I'm not sure were Micheal has gotten off to today, but when he's about I'll show him this! I feel like he's going to be excited to read his comment :) I have a feeling a couple of the guys wanted to make a video about the inner world actually, I think it's really interesting to hear about having never lived there myself, from what I gather it's like a mix of really dated and super progressive!
Hi! Oh cool, maybe we can have a cool artsy chat some when :) Ah really? I think the differences between it and the physical/outer world is pretty interesting, so I like to chat about that kind of stuff :) (Also, thank you for my first comment, this is cool) - Micheal
AmberandCo. Of course man <: Hmu on insta, systemofsages. We can inner world chat lmao •River
Oh MOOD. I've always struggled with this. I've slapped so many different pronouns, gender identities, gender presentations, and names on myself over the years because of this. It's tiring. I'm old(er) and cranky now and I've stopped paying the confusion attention and just started identifying as Me. I am a Riley. That's as far as I need go :') But like you I also have a weak sense of identity, so it's always going to be a thing that's in the back of my head I suppose. However........ Like. I also consider my weak sense of identity a part of my role in the system, in a way. Maybe it's my ROLE to be easily influenced by the others. It is/was my job to be the one who can cover up our identity as a system so that we could appear a singlet to everyone else. Does that make sense? I already naturally speak with our "pretending to be singlet" voice that everyone uses, so 🤷 Loveddd this video, very happy to chat if you ever want, I could write essays about this :'D -Riley
Oh I like that, that's such a lovely attitude to have, I hope I can say that one day, at the moment if I try its like "I don't need a label, I am just me....wait who is that again??" haha :'D Yeah, I feel like cause I have such a weak sense of identity it's like I just want to know SOMETHING about myself, so it's always right there like "Figure me out". Ooh that's interesting, I've never even thought of it like that but it totally makes sense! Aw thank you! Oh so could I (along with most of us I think), to be fair though I could talk forever about alot of things haha :D
We had a very similar realisation process! We explained ourselves away as just one person who was genderfluid, or one person who was spiritual and had multiple "past lives" before we came to terms with DID. Sorry you had to go through that experience at the hospital but glad you have a supportive and helpful therapist now. If you have any other social medias we'd love to follow you on there :)
Yes that was me with the "past lives" thing! If any of you have by any chance read any of the 'Fallen' series of books, I felt exactly like the character in them as she lived her life in a loop, if that makes sense? So it just keeps going over and over but was different every time and I always wondered if that was actually possible because I felt as though I could 'remember' all these different lives, but nope DID it is, which makes more sense than past lives in all honesty haha. Ah thanks, yeah we are really lucky to have such a lovely therapist now (especially considering how much rubbish there is out there!) :D
Really helpful video. Struggling myself. Thanks so much.
I'm really glad you found it helpful, I hope things get easier for you soon <3
For me I feel really fuzzy and sluggish and my mind is moving slow and then I feel a click go off in our brain and I feel someone else come forward.
Yeah I totally identify with that, it feels like my body and mind is trying to move through like custard, it's so hard to function, I hate when that bit goes on for ages
I'm questioning my gender as well I do know that I'm Trans though. I kinda identify along the lines of femme trans guy.
Ah that's interesting, I've recently been kinda wondering if I might identify along those sort of lines to!
Me too I want to be in an environment where I'm supported to experiment :') And I agree, whatever makes you feel comfortable in the moment is the right thing to do FOR YOU! :)
Yeah it's tough, I guess we just have to try and create our own personal experimental safe spaces! And yeah it's defiantly something I'm really trying to keep saying to myself :)
Gosh yea this is just the beginning of the process.i feel exactly like this but i put it more into a spiritual perspective. I take it as an awakening or spiritual shifting with the earth. Im honestly not into any religion but i'm just a spiritual being. I've accepted the change and now i don't feel worried or scared.My kind of first experience was when i was sitting in the car then all of a sudden my mind went blank.Then i started to have a fainted yet clear vision. This crazy vision was showing me the universe, planets and more. I was sitting there with a dumb look on my face of shockness and numbness. That's when i then started to see more spirits and dimensional beings, I've started to see auras, holographic material in my house and outside.I came to the conclusion that when we don't feel real. Maybe its your being coming to realization that your ready to see these mysterious things underlying.Your ready to go on the earth frequency not other people that aren't ware of these things.
That sounds like quite an experience you had, it must have been scary at the time, I hope your're learning to cope with the change and remember there are always people to talk to if the experiences are starting to worry you. I do believe in a certain level of spirituality within this world and have always been told by others I am quite a spiritual person, so your perspective on the situation is really interesting to me :)