One element of our poetry book we’ve continued to work on is titling the poems. It’s easy to come up with a title for a poem in its
Tag: PTSD
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections in My Poetry Book
My upcoming poetry book, “Pet”, on abuse and trauma, has gone through many drafts and iterations over the years. During the most recent round of revisions, knowing that we planned on publishing the book independently, we made some additions that…
What Is Plurality/Multiplicity?
In this post, I go over the meaning of plurality, otherwise known as multiplicity, and how the concept applies to me personally.
Article on Medium: Why Does Everything Feel So Hard Right Now If I’m Fine
Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, I found that if I didn’t work hard to use my systems and tools meant to support my mental health, my functionality would quickly deteriorate. I frequently felt like I wasn’t okay and also that I had no business feeling that way.
Recovering from Abuse: Was Everything My Fault?
I have a large number of friends who have been through at least one kind of abuse and I’ve noticed that if someone has gone through the process of recovering from abuse at least once, it becomes much more important to them to evaluate future behaviors as potentially abusive. But having the intense desire to avoid ever suffering abuse again, and actually identifying abuse are two very different things.
It Can’t Be That Bad: How the Medical System Let Me Fall Through the Cracks
As more and more stories of medical neglect as a result of marginalization are brought to light, I hope that we can collectively reduce that disconnect and bring understanding and accommodation of marginalized backgrounds into our medical system, rather than using the medical system to further enforce their oppression. Maya Strong’s guest post today is one of those stories.
Open Me: How a Kid’s Kind Holiday Gesture Turned My World Upside Down
Clarity’s guest post today looks at how racism is so insidious, it creeps into situations and actions that a white person would never think twice about, and provokes a sense of life-consuming threat, regardless how kind or innocent the intention of the original gesture was.
Windows: Snippets from a Mind Struggling with PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression
I spent more than a year searching for the reason that despite multiple skilled therapists and a wonderful social support system, I was still struggling with PTSD to the point that it was debilitating. I wrote this piece prior to my diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder, but now it reads like a textbook list of the symptoms.
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This is the old version of the article “9 Things That Blocked My Access to Medical Treatment”
Why Yopp Uses Content Notes
Find out what content notes or content warnings are, why Yopp uses content notes, and why I prefer them over trigger warnings.