Where Have We Been? System, System with the Alexandrite System
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2022
- Welcome back to the channel after... two years! It has been quite some time. We're both excited and a bit nervous to be posting again. We're starting off with an interview about our time away from youtube with the Alexandrite System, as part of their video series interviewing other systems. You can watch the rest of their interviews here: • System, System
Feel free to leave any questions you have in the comments for consideration in future videos ❤️
Time stamps of (big) questions:
Why haven't we been on youtube? 00:39
What have we been up to? 6:44
How has our language changed? Why? 12:53
Have there been major changes in your system? 16:48
What are our plans for the channel? 32:06
Are we happy? 35:48
The old MPD newsletter we mentioned was called "MPD Reaching Out." It was originally published in Canada.
If you also want to tag yourself in the comments, here is the site with "common presentations of MPD" we mention in the video. NOTE: This is outdated information, from 2-3 decades ago. www.nurseslearning.com/course...
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Welcome back! Around a year ago your videos helped us immensely in discovering we were a system. Thank you all so much, we appreciate you endlessly
Very much the same here, their videos have been such an eye opening welcoming space to realize what we were. Two years ago it was one of the only spaces not in a medical setting that I found solace.
Welcome back! About three or four years ago, when we were first discovering ourselves, you all REALLY helped. And now, all these years later, we're in therapy, we're in a relationship, a handful of important people know about our DID, and we're in college! God, we didn't know if we could do it. Your accommodations video helped so much! We have accommodations and we're getting so much better. Your online space is small but so impactful. Your channel was an amazing resource for us. Thank you.
Some of us even want to get into UA-cam, but we don't have the spoons to maintain anything right now. If we ever do... we'll let you know
I just want to say, thank you for the subtitles! Most big channels don't even have them, and I really appreciate you taking the time to write/arrange subtitles.
Oh! Welcome back. You guys were so helpful to us, you gave us lots of words and explanations for our experiences and we felt really validated. It was especially helpful when we were OSDD-1b (now DID due to more extensive trauma building up amnesia walls. Gimme a break! /lh) wish nothing but the best for you.
I didn't know this could happen! : 0 This is similar to our experience but I'd never seen anyone else describe it before. (I suspect we have more amnesiac alters from early childhood but without access/awareness of them, so tbd.)
@@AB-xy4bc Seen some systems diagnosed first OSDD, then DID so far.
You're not alone. 😊
I can't express how excited we are to seeing you again. Not only have you helped our system partner come to terms with their DID, but we also learned that we are a system as well! I'm so excited to see what you do next.-Itch
YAY YOU'RE BACK!
You're my favorite DID/OSDD channel and your vids helped me a lot to understand that it is possible and valid to have alters without total amnesia
Also THANKS FOR SPEAKING ABOUT NOT KNOWING WHO IS WHO!!! We're currently struggling with not knowing who is who in the system, maybe some of us fused but we're not sure, and this just sent us in a self-doubt spiral of believing we may not be plural
If you could possibly do videos on doing IRL plural activism or community building, that would be wonderful. I want to maybe someday work in local activism myself but have no idea where to start or who to reach out to to help get started on such a thing.
Thanks for the suggestion! In the mean time, I would check out pluralactivism.carrd.co - a resource to getting started on plural activism :)
I'm so glad you're interested in updating again! I sincerely hope you don't feel pressure to update "regularly" and I'm excited for you to get back into the groove of things.
Have you thought about starting a chapter system or some sort of guild system for in-person plural communities?
You may be able to post guides/updates/etc about how you are doing (so others can follow) or allow other leaders to build mentor relationships with you once vetted. Excellent opportunity there if you want to add it to your plates! lol
We thought about creating a directory for the current meetups, but COVID happened, and we also lost touch with a few of the groups. Possibly again sometime!
YAYYY I'm so glad you guys are back!! Your videos were extremely helpful in guiding me to figure out what was going on with me, and eventually led to an OSDD diagnosis and an understanding of what's going on in my brain and how to deal with it :) I can't wait to watch the videos you put out, and I think hearing your experiences throughout life will actually be just as educational as "Education with a capital E" videos. I always bring up your channel when providing friends with system resources, and you're absolutely right about your videos still standing.
Looking forward to where you take your channel, I'll definitely be here to watch and learn!!
Definitely relate to not needing to know who is fronting all of the time, cuz for us it's rarely clear. My fears and self-consciousness around it made me deny our plurality for years (after learning about it for the first time thanks to community educators), and have prolonged distress and identity crisis that was unecessary. Still struggling with it, tbh...
There is so much pressure to 'prove' you are as distinct and amnesiac as highly differentiated DID systems, in order to get community support or therapeutic help, and I think it's honestly harming a lot of people / systems and preventing them from being able to heal, where there is trauma. Ignorance around this, and trauma in general, in the field of psychology, has actively impeded my ability to process trauma safely and move forward in life with any outside assistance. (And there are barely any DID specialists, or trauma specialists in general- who seem to know nothing about it, let alone any who take my insurance and who are taking new clients. It's so hard to get appropriate support. People don't understand that the impact being plural has on our life is significant.) It is all on me/us and our own research and self-work.
I am looking forward to awareness around this continuing to change.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, as much as you are comfortable with! :)
So glad you're back! You were pivotal in helping us understand and accept how we worked. We were around for a lot of the drama and not surprised when you stopped posting. We actually were afraid to just comment on videos at a certain point. In fact, we left the whole DID social media space for a couple of years and are just getting back into it. Totally missed the fight with the Satanic Temple, but grrr!
Omg I would love to read all that research you all made
We might be self publishing three of the papers! Stay tuned, especially to our twitter which is where we’ll likely be talking about it when/if that happens
You guys are my two favorite system channels
Glad you’re back! We’re a recently-discovered system and found out within the last year, and was sad to see it’s been so long since your last upload. We have really enjoyed your channel and hope you’re able to keep posting again:)
Aaa! So happy you’re back! You guys helped us realize that we have OSDD1-b, and we’re currently hoping to get medically recognized when we go to college next year.
Oh my goodness dude, we never expected another upload from you guys again because of how long y’all haven’t uploaded. Good to know y’all are back - Jake
EDIT: CONGRATS ON FINISHING SCHOOL! One of the dreams we’re hoping to achieve and it’s so nice to know that another system got school down
Oh wow, I... honestly didn't realize how much I missed the UA-cam DID community until now. All of the people I was following kind of dropped off the map two years ago, and that was sad but we moved on pretty quickly--but I forgot just how *freeing* it feels to see people openly talking about systems and about the experience of being part of a system. We don't get that in any other way, in our environment.
WOOOO THEY'RE BACK!!! we found your channel and it ultimately helped us cope and work out some things with ourselves:) we just got done trying to explain Us to a close friend of ours, and got this notification and it just felt like we were on the right track and were just so excited :))) so so thankful for you all, you are a blessing
welcome back! :D it's good to see your channel active again :) your videos were super helpful for us when we were first researching DID and OSDD, and so I'm glad to see you back! the list of "common presentations of MPD" is a fun read, and although it's not the case any more, I'm tagging us as 'secret MPD' because my headmates figured out the whole system thing and chose not to tell me for like two years or something stupid. honestly iconic. 'private MPD', 'co-conscious MPD', and 'isomorphic MPD' are all also relatable though.
!!! I discovered your channel very recently and have found it immensely helpful, so happy to see you all back and I hope you are well
Welcome back! Happy to see you& have a youtube presence again!
As far as the tag yourself goes, isomorphic or puppeteering sounds like us :P
Wow 10 year plural anniversary 🎉 we will enjoy all the stories you have to share on this channel
Another Rings System Video! This is very exciting! Just commenting to say that we found your channel over a year or so ago, and have found all the content you guys make as very affirming for our own lived experience(s), and its great to have a video update on this channel again! The language and dialogue you and the Alexandrite system use have been super helpful in finding and navigating our own plural selves, and we wanted to share how helpful you all have been.
Also, tagging ourselves as "Isomorphic MPD" for the jokes.
I'm glad you're back and I hope you all feel safe being back
It's so good to see you guys again! And again I'm reminded how refreshing it is to see you being comfortable in your plurality even if you're not quantifying it through tracking who's fronting. It does our old host good to see that you can be confidently plural even if you don't know who you are specifically.
Yay! Missed you all, great to have you back! Eh don't worry bout what the people want, just be you, cos that's it 😉 at least for us. Welcome back! Yay
Good to see you back! I have cPTSD and I’m pretty sure I’m also a system. I’m starting with a new therapist and excited to figure it all out. I also love seeing fellow aces out there.
best of luck!
Welcome back! Your videos were so helpful for us when we first discovered we were a system. We have shared your videos with singlets to help explain aspects of the disorder and several times with other systems to help them!
glad to see you all doing well! we’ll definitely be looking forward to more sporadic videos in the future haha. no matter what you choose to post, just know that your videos bring us so much comfort
It's so great to see you all back again Rings! Whenever a video drops from yourselves or Alexandrite System, is always a good day, so a video together is an extra yay! I just want to echo a lot of other comments on here and say how much your videos have helped us to make sense of experiences that we struggled to make sense of. I'm glad y'all kept safe and did what was best for you all back then. It's brilliant you've been writing papers and doing in-person plural work too!
Welcome back! very insightful; always important to know what you want and how to do it. We're looking forward to your future videos, no pressure :)
OMG Welcome back :D hope you're doing ok!
Welcome back!! Your videos have really helped me accept and learn about my multiplicity! You've described things that I related to in such a clear and non-judgemental way. Videos like yours are a big part of what lead me to get the right treatment! Very grateful for your work, and happy to see you back!!
So glad to see yall back! 💓
We're so happy to see yall again! 💗
So excited you are back! Much love! ❤
so happy you're back!! your videos were an excellent resource and a great help, looking forward to see where you all take the channel!
Very happy to see you again, we’re glad you’re well and into it
So glad you're back! Congrats on graduating. 🎉 The work you are doing sounds interesting and very needed.
Good to see you back. Interesting whT you said about terminology shifts. It makes a lot of sense to me, and I’d like to move toward using plural and multiple more instead of diagnoses. Even though my diagnosis label is D.I.D., your elevation of the differences in OSDD was a comfort to me in my own experiences that dont fit in the small box that people try to put plurality in.
So happy to see y'all!!!! You have helped our system so much. So glad for the update and can't wait to see what else is to come. 💙💙💙💙💙
Hey guys! Lovely to see again!
Hey, welcome back, Ring System! We are happy to see you're back :D We started watching your channel long ago and returned to rewatch your videos recently. We are in the process of figuring out our plurality, so your videos have helped us a lot with learning about ourselves and making us not freak out as much about finding out that we are multiple people inside this flesh prison :P Our therapist kinda just dropped the bomb on us and never really helped us handle it well, so your videos are a big comfort for us
It is sooo good to see you back, you’ve helped me through so much 💕
Welcome back! We missed your content so much. Your content really helped us through some exceedingly tough, confusing, lonely times. The way everything is explained & broken down it feels relatable & understandable to us.
Everyone needs time to get themselves together sometimes. Especially during these past 2 years. They were & still are pretty challenging in many ways. We are glad you were able to find your stability & have good friends around you to support you.
We so glad you all are back & are looking forward to the the wonderful content. 💛
It's so good to see you back! And congratulations on finishing school. Excited to see what you build from here! Here or wherever.
So nice to see you all together! Congrats on finishing school Rings! 🥳💜
We recently discovered your channel and the video about the 'emotional/partial amnesia' has made us realize we have osdd 1b so thankyou for that! (funny how so many people are saying something along those lines too, you really explain things so well in your videos) And also, welcome back!!
Welcome back! Thank you so much for your videos, we discovered we are a system a few months ago and yours and the Alexandrite System's videos have helped us so much ❤
It's so good to see you-all back! Your videos have helped to clarify a lot of things for us. I'm really interested in history so if you did some content on plural history, that would be awesome. I've read about several figures from history (Pythagoras was one ... if I remember right?) who wrote about having 'spirits' inside them who they interacted with, and it made me wonder if they were plural, but just using different terminology for it. Anyways, hi! :D
Really glad you're back! Looking forward to any new videos, no matter what they might be about or when they might be posted! :D
Your past videos were extremely helpful to us back when we were first starting to figure out things about being a system, so thanks!!
oh,we are so happy to see your return!!
your videos helped us many times over the last two years, and part of the reason we got diagnosed was due to your guys’s info and care for this community 💛
and yes, your videos are still highly useful, we reference them to many community members who need them and they always are grateful to have found your work!
really can’t wait to see what the future holds for your channel and thanks for this interview, it was really interesting and chill and we just loved it!
Great to see you again! I just want to say how much I’ve appreciated you guys over the past few years and I would also love to see more. But what I would more is for you to not feel pressured to do a specific kind of content- if any. Do what feels right when it feels right 💜
Such a great coming back video. Welcome!! Great to see the system again and excellent interview questions. Thank you for the work you've all done. We have been using all of your videos on therapy to write presentations about all of our issues with our new therapist next week, so thank you. 🖤🖤🖤
so glad to see you guys back! you helped us alot with all the video's u guys made, really helped us figure our system out
So good to hear from ya’ll!
Welcome back!!
so so glad you guys are back!! ❤
it's really awesome to see you back! the videos you guys have posted have been extremely beneficial to helping me understand a lot of things about myself
Welcome back ❤❤
i am SO excited u guys r back. ur videos r so so incredibly helpful to us and im so stoked to see u posting again :)
It feels like every other day we get some new drama in the plural community... why can't we all just get along?
Its great to see you back, I hope you can feel more comfortable here.
-Nikki
I recently started watching your videos! They have been very very helpful, welcome back!!
So good to see you again. I'm so glad to see you OK, and even happy 💙
So so happy to have you back. I just found your channel a little bit ago and then found your videos ended. This is nice to see.
Welcome back!
I started watching videos on your channel very recently, my friend told me about this channel when I mentioned I might be part of a system to them. Your videos has help and comforted me a lot!
I am more comfortable with identifying as a system member now, though we still have a long way to go.
Your videos really helped me learn a lot about plurality in general and I want to say thanks. Thanks for being such a big support in the community. I am so glad this channel exist. ^ ^
I wish everyone all the best :D
--Sophie (She/They) [Host | the Pops System]
im soo glad your back !! your videos are so helpful
WELCOME BACK!! your videos really helped us discover that we were a system and we’re glad you’re back hope everything is well :]
Yay y’all are back! We are so glad to see y’all again!
so good to have you guys back!
So glad to see you doing well :) Wishing all the best with both online and offline responsibilities and work!
happy to see youre back!! im a singlet but your videos have really helped me learn about the concept of plurality as i find it really interesting
HII WELCOME BACK!! Earlier this year we realised we were a system, and oh my god your videos definitely helped us so much
Glad you're back!!
We are glad to see you all back. Omg it’s like Christmas. Keep up the good work
Yay I’m glad you’re back!
Holy crap welcome back!! As a newly discovered system your videos have helped us a lot. Thank you. I’m sorry you are anxious. Hang In there!!
Welcome back☺️💙 interested in whatever you have to offer. As an old system, interested in the history stuff, and also interested in whatever you find the other old systems might say.
We're really glad to see you're back, Rings System!! Y'all helped us learn a lot about OSDD/DID when we were still questioning, and we're really glad you took the time y'all needed for yourselves. 💜
Welcome back !! i have been struggling with denial for a while and I kept kinda accepting them going back into “nah im not a system” mindset and i always find myself back at your videos you guys have helped me a lot with this and I appreciate it so much and I truly can never thank you enough
no way! i was so excited when i saw this notification. you were such a major aspect of discovering we were plural, first OSDD-1b, and then discovered we had DID, but from the beginning you helped us so much!! welcome back
Welcome back!!!!!
You helped me alot!!!!
This was good to hear an update from you
Welcome back y'all!
So nice to get an update, we loved your Videos! If you ever decide to make more, we gonna be here🥳🙌🏼🙌🏼
Its good to see y'all back.
Nice to see you make videos again!!
Good to have you guys back!
Happy to see you back. No joke, seriously made me smile.
Im so hapoy youre back. We found out we were plural this summer and havent been able to find a community we feel comfortable really exploring in and really want to make a monthly meet up, just to converse with eachother, in our town. And we would love to set this uo but we also dont know alot of things or where to start or what we should prepare for or expect. If youd ever be willing to make a video on getting started in making ib person plural communities at all, we would appreciate it so much.
I think the Crisses made a resource about this awhile back that should get you started... it should be halfway down this page: kinhost.org/Movement/MeetsAmpMore
Welcome back! :)
It so nice to see the Ring System again! Their videos have been so useful to our journey 💞
I'm glad your back. You offer a very clear and sober perspective on something it seems not many people have a great understanding.
Glad you're back
Welcome back! And thank you for sharing some of your research on the history of MPD/DID. I find that stuff super interesting. It's nice to hear other systems talk about how they communicate with each other. We also take about a week to vote on something life-changing. Like even getting a haircut.
Welcome back, you guys have been missed!
Glad yall are back and I totally get not stressing about who is fronting. We've been trying to chill about it lately as well.
I'm so happy to see you're all back! I loved hearing about your perspectives on in-person community. I have no idea where to find things like that, but I would love to see more meetups and workshops and whatnot for multiples. I was surprised to hear that FL is the hotspot!
Welcome back!💙☺️
welcome back!!❤