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You Contain Multitudes

Don't call yourself moody. Name each of your multiple personalities instead.

Heather Havrilesky
Jan 13, 2022
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Red Hills With White Flower No. II (x) by Georgia O’Keeffe

I’m about ten different people, and I never know who I’m going to get. I don’t mean that I have Dissociative Identity Disorder. What I mean is that I’m not just extremely moody; different moods and circumstances seem to incite an extreme shift from one adaptive strategy to another. (In some cases…

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