Complex System Dynamics: DID and OSDD
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Key ideas in Complex System Dynamics: DID and OSDD
- Trauma holders sequester somatic leakage
- ANP functioning is contingent on containment
- System destabilization and barrier thinning
- The functional relationship between trauma holders and the ANP
- Stasis prevents realization
- Lack of time-stamp as defense
- The protective nature of 'stuck in time' stasis
- Non-trauma holders lack structural insulation
- Functional relationship between trauma holders and ANP
- Internal vicarious trauma risks
- Gatekeeper regulatory role
- Protective nature of stasis
- Regulation of information flow
- Narrative memory is often held by ANPs as a 'story' stripped of its physiological impact
- Identifying the risks of internal vicarious trauma
- Trauma holders store 'B-type' memory: fragmented, non-linear sensory snapshots (smell, heat, pressure)
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Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Complex System Dynamics: DID and OSDD the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
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A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What must the trauma holder successfully do for the Apparently Normal Part (ANP) to maintain its daily functioning?
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Where Complex System Dynamics: DID and OSDD takes you
An advanced exploration of structural dissociation, focusing on the nuanced roles of specialized alters and the internal logic of complex systems.
- 1
Specialized Roles and Trauma Processing
- The Mechanics of Trauma Holding
- Navigating the Complexity of Child Parts
- 2
Symbolic and Non-Human Identities
- Introjects: Mirrors of the External World
- The Logic of Non-Human Identities
- 3
System Architecture and Integration
- Communication and Co-Consciousness
- Structural Dissociation and Functional Multiplicity
3 sections · 6 units · 18 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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