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With Festibility approaching, I thought it might be useful to add links to these pieces.

[personal profile] rachelmanija wrote A User's Guide to PTSD, a "three-part essay on post-traumatic stress disorder: understanding it, having it, writing it."

[personal profile] 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 [personal profile] sholio and [personal profile] softestbullet via whom I found them originally.)

ETA: see the comments for more resources.

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Date: 2010-07-12 06:43 pm (UTC)
rhivolution: low-on-spoons girl from Hyperbole and a Half: 'clean ALL the things?' (clean ALL the things?: out of spoons)
From: [personal profile] rhivolution
Not to toot my own horn, but I address some of the experience I've had with OCD in this post, though it does get a bit ranty.

I'd be totally willing to address any questions should anyone be interested in writing about OCD (pleeeeeease write about it?).

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Date: 2010-07-12 07:40 pm (UTC)
trialia: Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), head down, hair wind-streamed, eyes almost closed. (Default)
From: [personal profile] trialia
Hmm, maybe I should write my own version of the "what hallucinations & delusions can be like" post, too. :) Goodness knows I get enough of them.

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Date: 2010-07-12 08:35 pm (UTC)
trialia: Ziva David (Cote de Pablo), head down, hair wind-streamed, eyes almost closed. (Default)
From: [personal profile] trialia
Heh, familiar with that feeling! Though with my episodes of psychosis it's not so much the rawness as the difficulty of putting it into the right language.

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Date: 2010-07-12 08:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
She's [personal profile] kaninchen on DW.

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.

PTSD and more

Date: 2010-07-13 12:05 am (UTC)
jesse_the_k: Pixar's Dory, the adventurous fish with a brain injury (dain bramage)
From: [personal profile] jesse_the_k
Arachne Jericho, blogs about PTSD at Spontaneous ∂erivation. That link includes an excellent analysis of "PTSD in popular culture," hosted by Tor. She loves the portrayal of Josh in the West Wing and Lord Peter in Sayers' mysteries, and explains why they're so good.

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.

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