Pavilion is a proactive educational network providing news, information services and resources for and about multiple personality.
Thank you Wicks
ARCHIVE EDITION
Happy birthday tomorrow, John Lennon.
Doves
Personal Correspondence
A mental health care advocate who is also multiple wrote to ^us today, initially to identify a broken link on our Anti-FMSF page. She later wrote of her concern with insurance companies. First they refused to pay for mental health care - something she called non-parity - and then the exploitation of insurance companies by recovered memory therapists, and now by the FMSF. Biases and nasty divisions are rampant - it's very difficult for multiples who need help to get it.
Weathervane
Multiplicity on the internet
The most interesting news has been at Clairaide's Livejournal. A number of intelligent, thoughtful persons speak about plural experiences in a naturalistic way without reference to any of the usual clinical, spiritual or other references, although they're touched upon occasionally in one way or another.
This is a hopeful sign, one of the best yet. I would love to have some of these people involved in Pavilion. I notice that after ^Andy left a comment inviting them to check us out, one of them linked to Astraea's Livejournal . Turns out she's also linked to many other Pavilion members. The original inspiration for Clairaide's question may have come from her.
Poll Results
This is the first poll. We may do this again later with a different sampling.
Questions: What do you think the average person-on-the-street thinks multiplicity is?
1. A disorder requiring therapy and integration
2. Doctors convince people they have it, it's a fake
3. People can be multiple and healthy, it's not a problem
Sampling: Dark Personalities elist, and the late Positively Plural.
18 people responded:
1. 13 votes
2. 2 votes
3. 0 votes
3 votes for "other."
The "other" votes say:
"Most people don't spend more than 5 minutes thinking about it in their lifetimes."
"Even the ones that see #2 as true still think that #1 applies. If you think you've got something that doesn't exist you need help."
"I don't think people in general have any awareness at all of #3 as even a possibility. If they know anything at all about plurality, it is as a mental illness, a disorder, something that is very wrong and needs to be fixed. ... The one person in my life who is willing to see my plurality as something that is not pathological and not in need of fixing is, ironically (and blessedly), my therapist."
Next time: A poll on work and education.
Polls can and will be resampled and recalculated. To answer a poll question, write to pavili0n @karitas. n3t.
Jay Young
If you observe, anywhere, a public post from someone worried that they have "MPD" or are insane, please report it not only to me, but to the Frontliners.