More links about what it's like
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With Festibility approaching, I thought it might be useful to add links to these pieces.
rachelmanija wrote A User's Guide to PTSD, a "three-part essay on post-traumatic stress disorder: understanding it, having it, writing it."
kaninchen wrote this post about what it's actually like to have hallucinations and delusions, versus the typical media portrayal:
Moving from Twitter to Tumblr to have more space ...
(Thanks to
sholio and
softestbullet via whom I found them originally.)
ETA: see the comments for more resources.
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Moving from Twitter to Tumblr to have more space ...
(Thanks to
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ETA: see the comments for more resources.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 06:43 pm (UTC)I'd be totally willing to address any questions should anyone be interested in writing about OCD (pleeeeeease write about it?).
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 06:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 07:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 08:33 pm (UTC)(OTOH, that depends on it not feeling too raw to share. I am probably not going to be contributing a helpful Loony Bins For Beginners right now. Maybe next year ...)
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 08:00 pm (UTC)BADD has lots of relevant posts (http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2010/05/blogging-against-disablism-day-2010.html). A research may find specifically the category of "Impairment-Specific Prejudice" most relevant.
(no subject)
Date: 2010-07-12 08:08 pm (UTC)PTSD and more
Date: 2010-07-13 12:05 am (UTC)I am happy to serve as an "impairment nitpicker/beta." Based on my own experience I can answer "what it's like" questions regarding bipolar disorder, ASL interpreting, Braille transcription, coping mechanisms for memory loss, 20 years without a diagnosis, obtaining (U.S. work-related) Social Security Disability Insurance, rolling walkers, power wheelchairs, and celiac diets.
Re: PTSD and more
Date: 2010-07-13 02:57 pm (UTC)