Sysmedicalist

//sɪsˈmɛdɪkəlɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "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?"

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"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?"

Etymology

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

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