All About Integration

In our most recent post, we discuss the concepts of fusing and blending. For those who didn't read that post, fusing is the act of making two headmates into one with the intent to keep it that way. Blending is the temporary form of fusing and should not be used interchangeably. Integration is similar to fusing but also should not be used interchangeably. 

Integration is the act or pursuit of the ability to fully fuse into one "whole" person. In this process, all the people in your head or headspace(s) are either taught, if one has a good therapist, or forced if they don't have a therapist or have a crappy one, to become one. This is seen to most singlets as the only way to be functional and get past multiplicity. As we mentioned in our previous post, we do not agree with fusing, and very rarely blend two headmates, simply preferring to switch out or cofront for various tasks. Needless to say, we agree even less with integration, especially if it's done wrong. 

Reading our words written here, you may be wondering why we seem so empassioned against integration. Why, you may ask, do we seem so ... angry, bitter, toward this process? To most who have lived in a single mind, they could not see having others in their head. They couldn't imagine it. For a fair few of us plurals, we were born that way, or have been like this since as long as we can remember. Forcing us to give up our systems would be like taking a knife and slicing out your own eyes. Integration has also had its fair chare in creating our system trauma. When we lived in a different state than we do now, a person attempted to force us through an integration meditation. It ended up fracturing us even more than we already were. IT ended up causing the creation of the way things are now. 

Kayla

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