hysteria?

if you read any of our other journals you'll know that we've beeen extremly busy and tyhen extramly tierd lately. I do keep thinking about stuff i want to write here but unfortunatly not when i've got the computer time.

One intersting but prolly not very uselful thing i found out is that metanl health professional not only catogorise all multiplicty as a form of dissoation but that they say that all dissoation is a form of hysteria.
Which sounds very insulting - because of the lay use of the word/idea of hysteria. But the offical view of hysteria is a a reaction to something overwealmimg which your mind/psyche can't otherwise cope with - which does sound like a sensible conceptualising of a lot of dissoation. Like judiff says if you are facing a truma an you really can't do fight or flight than dissosating is only sensible. The problem is when it can become a habit and/or you are using up so much of you enegry and time dissostainmg that you can't do much else (which is pretty much classic PTSD).
But of course not all plural people dissoate and not all cases of dissosation are harmful or habit-forming. But metal health professionals by defination only see the peole with problems so they end up with a very distorted view. Some people use the term disosative distress for when there is a problem which makes a lot more sense