More links about what it's like

[rydra_wong]

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.

Comments

[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?).

[rydra_wong]

Toot your own horn! Please! *g* Thanks for the link, and I hope more people will be moved to add links too.

[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.

[rydra_wong]

My basic theory is that if we have to have this kind of shit, we might as well exploit it to serve the cause of goodfic *g*.

(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 ...)

[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.

[(Anonymous)]

She's 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.

[rydra_wong]

Thanks!

PTSD and more

[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.

Re: PTSD and more

[rydra_wong]

Thanks for the link! And yes, I think Festibility is going to have a rich pool of disability betas.