sysmedicalist

English

Etymology

From sys(tem) +‎ medical +‎ -ist, modelled after transmedicalist.

Noun

sysmedicalist (plural sysmedicalists)

1. (multiplicity slang) A 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.

   Synonym: (clipping) sysmed

   • 2020 May 14, @WanderingChord, Twitter‎^[1]:

     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?

   • 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 167:

     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[.]

Related terms

• sysmedicalism

 

See also

• traumascum