Meanings
plural sysmedicalists
- multiplicity slangA person who believes that medically diagnosed dissociative disorder (especially dissociative identity disorder or other specified dissociative disorder type 1) or a history of psychological trauma are essential traits of multiplicity.
Those terms are also often used by Sysmedicalists, who even when they’re systems, seem to invalidate their own sysmates existence and personhood by reducing them to parts of themselves someone broke out of them. That’s just gross, horrible[.]
2024, Zarah Eve, quoting Leslie Dyke, “Expert-by-experience interpersonal findings” (chapter 7), in Exploring emerging multiplicity and psychosocial functioning: A constructivist grounded theory study (PhD thesis), Manchester Metropolitan University, page 1671 more example
But here's the thing: you start excluding people based on that stuff and you're going to leave systems out in the rain who have been PSYCHIATRICALLY DIAGNOSED. ¶ Not that psychiatric diagnosis matters to me, but isn't it supposed to matter to you sysmedicalists out there?
2020 May 14, @WanderingChord, TwitterSynonyms: sysmed
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who believes that medically diagnosed dissociative disorder (especially dissociative identity disorder or other specified dissociative disorder type 1) or a history of psychological trauma are essential traits of multiplicity.
Origin
From sys(tem) + medical + -ist, modelled after transmedicalist.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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