From everything we've seen, psychs' whole goal is to "fix" people by making them "normal".

They don't care if you're fine, if you're different that's a Disorder to be Cured i.e. ripped out of you.

Sure, I'm sure some psychs wouldn't do that for SOME "disorders"
just autistic? you're probably safe
plural? that's /decidedly/ iffier.

but we basically only hear of, say, schizophrenia as a bad thing

now, we don't really know what schizophrenia even /is/
(a lot of what we hear sounds like it's often just plurality?)

but everyone treats it as Inherently Bad, something to be eliminated, even if you're fine with being that way.

(slight tangent, but even if you're not fine with it, if you've got headmates, they deserve a say too.)

@Ylfingr schizophrenia very distinctly is not plurality there is a long history there yes schizophrenia literally means "split mind" but that's awkwardly meant to refer to splitting from reality as in psychosis i see too many people refer to the two interchangeably and it infuriates me when it keeps coming up the connection between the two was mistakenly made long ago by now before most people alive today were alive the two are very different in the kind of like- affect

@TheTenuousOrder Oh huh!

We read a blogpost once where the critter talked about their 'voices' that were pretty clearly headmates as a schizophrenia thing, so I figured it could be a schizophrenia thing.

@Ylfingr there's sometimes voices, but there's a range of psychotic symptoms and nearly none of them have any kind of affect outwards that would be mistaken for plurality- and the thing is, plurality, or... well... DID... got called schizophrenia because they assumed the alters/headmates/whatever term you want to use, were a thing that's like...
i forget the clinical name for it but it's the psychotic belief that oneself is a different person (2/3?)

@TheTenuousOrder *blink* ...I'd say in that case you /are/ a different person?

@TheTenuousOrder Like, all you need to be a different person is to consider yourself a different person.

@Ylfingr usually a famous historical figure or other such notable figure- it's a bit hard for me to explain i'm sorry- where they completely drop the life they have and try to...
actually thinking about it i *have* heard of "DID" cases doing exactly that.
i... came in here also rambling- uh- usually, from what i recall, unlike where the headmate could theoretically front at any time, the...

i'm... not the authority in this so don't take my word