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

[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.