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Symphrenia
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout, and the institutional treatment of Mad people. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at…
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Shared Minds, Other Realities
Symphrenia, psychosis and mad pride: minds that reach beyond one skull, and realities worth taking seriously.
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The Extended Mind: Symphrenia, Rhizomes and Making-With
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, psychiatric diagnosis, burnout and dehumanisation. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. Support links are at the end. In Brief Symphrenia…
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From the Edge of the Gyre: Yeats, Symphrenia and the Centre that Cannot Hold
An Autistic ADHD, symphrenic reading of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”: why the centre cannot hold, and how community without a centre can hold us instead.
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Symphrenic Soul Showers and Attention Tunnels
We write this from lived experience. As neurodivergent people with our own experiences of attention, imagery and unusual sensory life, we come to these ideas from the inside as well as from the…
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Real To Me
Content note: this post discusses psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, psychiatric labelling and coercive psychiatric practice. I experience hallucinations, I experience what psychiatry would call…
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Matter and Anti-Matter: Being Multiply Neurodivergent in Addiction and in Recovery
I spent the first eighteen years of my life feeling like a broken neurotypical. The most common thing I heard from teachers and professionals was that I was incredibly intelligent, but failing to…
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Trailer | Season 1
When a person is struggling, there are two questions available. The first is always asked: what is wrong with this person? The second hardly ever gets asked: what is wrong with the world around them?…
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The Unbelieved Body
Content note: this essay discusses psychosis, tactile hallucinations, physical illness, health anxiety, medical dismissal and premature death. It does not describe self-harm or crisis in detail. In…
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Real, Unreal, and Everything In Between
Real, Unreal, and Everything In Between The Wider Existence is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. iss042e230347.…
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When the Web Frays: Burnout, Crisis and the Monotropic Mind
Content note: this article discusses Autistic burnout, psychiatric crisis, psychosis and inpatient admission. It does not describe self-harm. So far this series has set out the core shift (Part 1)…
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Existential Diversity, the Symphrenic Bodymind and Wider Existence
A glowing spherical network of interconnected white lines and luminous nodes floats against a vibrant cosmic nebula of blue, teal, green, red, orange, and golden-yellow clouds. The intricate…
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How Distress Builds: Three Nested Ecosystems
Yesterday’s article made one move; from asking what is wrong with this person? to asking what is this distress responding to? Today is about what the ecosystem is actually made of, and why distress…
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The Wider Existence: What This Is For
There are two observable questions made available when a person is struggling. The first gets asked constantly “What is wrong with this person?” It positions the problem inside a bodymind and…
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Matter and Anti-Matter: Being Multiply Neurodivergent in Addiction and in Recovery
I spent the first eighteen years of my life feeling like a broken neurotypical. The most common thing I heard from teachers and professionals was that I was incredibly intelligent, but failing to…
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A New Blog About Sober Living
Glass Half Interesting is a blog about sober living, alcohol-free drinks, and the quiet, radical act of choosing what you put in your body. I’m nearly ten years into recovery from drug and alcohol…
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What Is Mental Illness?
In this episode of Autistic Story Time With David I explore what the concept of “mental illness” means to me as a Schizophrenic and recovering addict. The full version of this podcast is available to…
PODCAST
Autistic Storytime With David: Episode 3
In this episode, I explore my journey through psychosis as an Autistic person and the path to my schizophrenia diagnosis. I discuss being a psychiatric inpatient, and the burnout to psychosis cycle…
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Neurodivergent Identity and Culture- David with Dani, The Punk Rock Autistic
In this episode, David and Dani talk about neurodivergent identity and culture through politics, religion and spirituality, philosophy, as well as concept of the Self, psychedelics, and David's…