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chat i might be a system how do i confirm / deny this
systemhood is just a way of modeling a broad set of experiences, and all the medical diagnoses related to it are models for describing patterns psychiatrists observe in some patients
if a model in which you are multiple people proves to be more useful and make more accurate predictions than any model in which you are one person, then for practical purposes you are a system
if no such model is as useful or accurate as a model in which you are a single person, then for practical purposes you are not a system. in other words, you can approach it scientifically
you may also find that both are useful theories in different contexts, or that in some contexts neither is useful... when I was trying to figure out whether I was a system (and eventually decided that I was not) I found that the most harmful thing was trying to fit every experience into one cohesive model of the self, and to attach my identity to that model
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by model I just mean a way of describing things. an explanation that fits observations about your own experiences.
you could look around various plural online resources for labels (which are also a kind of model), or look into DID and OSDD, but that's not really what I'm talking about. You should be trying to describe yourself (or selves) as you already are, not trying to fit yourself into someone else's box.
What I'm suggesting you do is a bit of introspection and make your own model. Try to describe the experience you think might be systemhood in detail. Try and come up with explanations or metaphors for those experiences without judgment or reliance on plural community jargon. Then do the research to see if someone's given a name to a similar idea. Or make one up.
tysm but wdym by model and how can i find some?