Sep 28, 2024 from Autistic As Fxxk How Rage Against the Machine changed my life In a previous post, I infodumped about my special interest in Rage Against the Machine. Since then, I’ve been reflecting a lot on my teen years, as I first got into RATM when I was 13. It all start...
Sep 10, 2023 from The Schizophrenia Diaries At First, Schizophrenia Just Watches At first, Schizophrenia just watches the girl. … She is three, and if something terrible were to happen to her—Schizophrenia must see the worst—the papers would have called her angelic. She is of...
Aug 19, 2023 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Hurricane Walks: Gifted Kid Rambles Hurricane Hilary is heading up the West Coast. As a lifelong Las Vegas resident, a hurricane is coming is an unfamiliar feeling. Yet, as far as things I have not actually experienced go, a hurrican...
Jul 22, 2023 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Examining My Biases via My Fiction About four months ago, I seriously started eating disorder recovery, working with a new therapist and a nutritionist. I’ve also taught my class on how to be an ally to people with eating disorders...
Dec 29, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Kabbalah for Schizophrenics (Or: Spending Too Much Time in Atziluth) Around the beginning of August, after some dabbling in it, I unexpectedly got really into tarot reading. Down various related rabbit holes I went, often trying to generally get (back) in touch with...
Oct 25, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Why We Need Diverse Stories (A Letter I Wrote in a Dream) When I was in high school, I started writing my own happy endings. I was fifteen, in love with another girl, drowning in homework, developing schizophrenia, and generally more confused than ever. ...
Oct 23, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Schizophrenia in Creativity and Productivity In some ways, I honestly don’t remember much around the origins of this blog. It was summer 2020 (and let’s face it—who has a great memory of summer 2020?). I wasn’t yet back on antipsychotics (by ...
Oct 17, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries My Most Common Hallucinations A very common first question when talking about psychosis is, “What do you hallucinate?” It’s not an incredibly simple question; it’s kind of like asking someone, “What do you see, in general?” Of ...
Sep 19, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries My Types of Dissociation I’ve realized that when I talk about dissociating, I can really be talking about a number of different experiences. So I decided to categorize and define some of the versions I talk about most ofte...
Sep 19, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries This Is For This is for the people I shared seventy-two long hours with We’d never met before nor would we ever meet again None of us wanted to be trapped within those white, white walls Yet we were all hidin...
Aug 28, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries Tracking the I’ll Give You Series vs. My Mental Health at the Time I wrote a post a while back: “Tracking Contrivance vs. My Mental Health at the Time,” an exercise in tracing changes in my writing versus changes in my mental health. For this post, I’m doing it ag...
