Directory
This is a directory of tumblr posts (mostly) from my blog, and sometimes links to other websites. For pages on this website, see the sitemap.
Author Posts
Resource Collection
From my personal drive, downloaded directly from the DSM website via institutional access. Includes: the DSM-5-TR (without the appendixes), the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2nd edition), a link to the ICD-11 browser, previous editions of the DSM (up to DSM-IV-TR), assessment measures used by clinicians for self-reporting, and a ton of worksheets and books on various mental health topics.
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Personality Disorders
Diagnosis and Criteria
- Breakdown of the clusters
- Cluster A PDs
- Cluster B PDs
- How much of the criteria do I need to fit for a diagnosis?
Differentiating between PDs
- NPD vs other PDs:
- AsPD (graph)
- AsPD (2) [link TBA]
- AvPD
- HPD
- "explosive" BPD
- OCPD and BPD
- StPD vs other PDs:
- BPD vs other PDs:
- AvPD vs other PDs:
- Can comorbid PPD, BPD & NPD actually just be SzPD?
Comorbidity
Note: Some links will be duplicates.
- A note on messages about PD comorbidities
- AsPD and:
- SzPD [link TBA]
- PPD
- full NPD vs AsPD with NPD traits
- AvPD and:
- BPD and:
- DPD and:
- HPD and:
- NPD and:
- OCPD and:
- PPD and:
- [TBA]
- StPD and:
- SzPD and:
- HPD, SzPD and OCPD (and OSDD-1A)
- AsPD, PPD and SzPD
- AsPD, SzPD & StPD
- BPD, NPD and AsPD
- BPD, NPD and OCPD in an autistic person
- BPD, AvPD, SzPD, and StPD in a person with OSDD
- SzPD, PPD and NPD
- AvPD & NPD, and AvPD, NPD, & SzPD
- NPD, AvPD, DPD, & OCPD
Autism and PDs
Other PD posts
- PD masterpost
- Splitting in PDs
- Splitting and types of splits
- Splitting in BPD, NPD and SzPD
- The Five Factor Model and PDs
- The superiority complex defence mechanism in NPD, OCPD, and SzPD
- Tips on narrowing down which PDs you may have
- Psychosis in StPD vs BPD (1)
- Psychosis in StPD vs BPD (2)
- Psychosis in StPD vs BPD (3) [link TBA]
- "Severe impairment" in a PD context
- PD positivity
- StPD, PPD, and suspicion
- AvPD vs social anxiety, and PPD vs paranoia
- The Schizotaxic model (thesis of @schizotaxic)
- Schizotaxic directory
- Schizotaxic PDs and valuing relationships
- Schizotaxic PDs aren't 'schizophrenia lite'
- Conflicting symptoms
- Gender bias in diagnosing PDs
- Cluster A directory
- PD attributes and domains
- Is it possible to have multiple PDs? [link TBA]
- Is it possible to recover from PDs? (SzPD focused) [link TBA]
- How many PDs can a person have?
- Can PDs be comorbid with schizophrenia?
- Are the names of PDs any good? (not a serious post)
- Alexithymia and PDs
- PDs and MBTI types
- The difference between SzPD's lack of enjoyment in relationships and StPD's relationship discomfort
- Being a good partner when you have AsPD or NPD
- Red and green flags in relationships (follow up to the above post)
- Identity disturbances in SzPD and AvPD
- Egodystonic and egosyntonic symptoms in PDs
- Coping with boredom in AsPD and NPD
- Trauma and AsPD and NPD
- Can you have StPD and psychotic depression?
- Potentially relatable AsPD things
- Criticism of the HPD diagnosis (posts from one person on tumblr; not an academic source):
- Emotional permanence in BPD
- HPD vs mania
- AsPD and anxiety
- NPD and perception of perfection
- Socially Distant: A blog on SzPD
- r/Schizoid wiki
- r/Narcissism wiki
- r/OCPD wiki
- r/AsPD wiki
- A diagram of the internal experience of AvPD
- How AvPD controls anxiety
- Diagnosing AvPD
- AvPD and self-esteem
- Healing self-esteem in AvPD
- AvPD as the social equivalent of an eating disorder
- AvPD as social dysregulation
- AvPD and levels of relationships (1)
- AvPD and levels of relationships (2): Safe people
- Digging deeper into AvPD
- Agoraphobia and AvPD
- Kathy Steele's notes on NPD
- Steele's notes on AvPD
- Steele's notes on PDs and therapy
- Steele's notes on BPD
- Steele's notes on treatment prognosis of PDs
- Environmental influences on SzPD
- SzPD defences: themes and thoughts
- Core schizoid traits
- Overt vs covert SzPD phenomenology
- Treatment goals of SzPD
- Subtypes of SzPD
- SzPD, StPD & AvPD in the SWAP-200
- An explanation of the NPD criteria
- A guide to NPD
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Dissociative Disorders
Dissociation
- Beginner's guide to dissociation
- Dissociation debates: everything you know is wrong
- Dissociation masterpost
- The CTAD Clinic (YouTube) (and their Cheshire Psychology website)
- Dissociation and disorganised attachment
- Normal vs abnormal dissociation
- Dissociative amnesia and trauma
- Star theory: visualising dissociation
- Types of amnesia
- Dissociative disorder symptoms
- Dissociative fugue states
- Dissociation and vision
- Functional neurological symptoms and dissociation
DID & OSDD 1
- How much separation between parts is too much?
- On OSDD 1a
- Examples of DID symptoms
- What does final fusion / integration look like?
- Amnesia in OSDD 1
- Signs of DID / OSDD 1 in hindsight
- DID / OSDD 1 and multiplicity masterpost
- OSDD 1 and knowing who's fronting, memory and amnesia, and separate/distinct alters
- On OSDD 1 and OSDD 1a
- Normal vs abnormal memory in DID / OSDD 1
- Common symptoms of DID / OSDD 1
- DID / OSDD 1 masterpost
- On DID and being disordered
- How to create a parts map
- DID / OSDD 1 casually explained
- Emancipation (separation), elaboration (sense of self) and covertness (hiddenness / subtlety) of parts
- One person's experience of having dissociated parts
- Parts and memories
- On alters feeling like separate people but being parts of a whole
- Understanding the nature of dissociated parts
- Part roles from literature
- On polyfragmented DID
- Does polyfragmented OSDD 1 exist?
- Definition of polyfragmented DID
- Do I have polyfragmented DID?
- What does polyfragmented DID mean? [link TBA]
- Scientific sources on polyfragmentation
- Developing DID
- Janina Fisher's laws of treating dissociative parts
- Healthy Multiplicity (website)
- Scientific evidence of DID
- DID, memory, and influence from parts
- Realisation and non-realisation in DID
- Can you have DID and not PTSD? and PTSD vs C-PTSD
- Advice for abuser introjects
- Dealing with doubt
- Against the word "host"
- Against the word "fictive"
- A personal experience of switching-related amnesia
- Possessive vs non-possessive switches
- A personal experience of integration
- The difference between dissociated parts and ego states
- DID as failure of integration in childhood [link TBA]
- Intrusion from parts [link TBA]
- Schema modes, DID, and Internal Family Systems therapy [link TBA]
- Why do some kids develop DID while their siblings don't?
- Can alters have different disorders?
- Normal internal conversations vs conversations with alters
- Interviewing potential therapists about DID
- You might not have as many fictional introjects as you think
The Theory of Structural Dissocation
- On BPD parts
- OSDD 1a vs BPD
- Fragmented identities in BPD
- Comorbid DID / OSDD 1 and BPD, and identity alteration and confusion
- Dissociation and identity confusion in BPD [link TBA]
- Dissociated parts and BPD [link TBA]
- BPD vs DID (BPD perspective)
- BPD vs DID (DID perspective)
- Overlap between BPD and C-PTSD (1)
- Overlap between BPD and C-PTSD (2)
- Can someone with BPD call themselves a system?
- What counts as a "sense of self"?
- Evidence of structurally dissociated parts
- Illustrating the TOSD with gradients
- Dissociated parts: ANP and EP [link TBA]
- ANP in BPD
- EP in BPD
- Parts in OSDD 1 vs C-PTSD
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Trauma Disorders
Trauma
- Trauma Responses: the 4 Fs
- Codependecy, trauma, and the fawn response
- What does fawning look like?
- Illustration of the 4 Fs
- Incest survivor resources
- Stuff that's normal and okay when you're a survivor
- Trauma recovery links
- Types of flashbacks
- About flashbacks
- Managing flashbacks
- The living legacy of trauma
- Signs of emotional neglect (1)
- Signs of emotional neglect (2)
- Parentification trauma
- Trauma and dissociation books
- Trauma advice & information
- Patterns and characteristics of codependency
- Normalised child sexual abuse
- Rarely talked about signs of abuse
- On repressed memories
- Childhood abuse masterpost
- Codependency checklist
- Taking your psychological pulse
- Tactics of abuse
- List of reassuring posts for abuse survivors
- Trauma information
- Setting boundaries with abusive parents
- Parental divorce can be traumatic
- Why trauma survivors wish their trauma was worse
- Recognising and soothing trauma responses in kids
PTSD & C-PTSD
- PTSD symptoms
- Examples of living with PTSD
- Somatic (physical) symptoms of PTSD
- PTSD masterpost
- What is C-PTSD?
- C-PTSD symptoms
- The inner critic in C-PTSD
- C-PTSD book recommendations
- Misdiagnosis of C-PTSD as personality disorders
- PTSD is not just flashbacks and nightmares
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Psychotic Disorders
Psychosis
- Psychosis masterpost
- What are "unusual perceptual experiences"?
- What disorders have "unusual perceptual experiences"?
- Covert psychotic experiences
- Psychotic vs non-psychotic experiences (follow up to above post)
- Negative psychotic symptoms vs depression
- Avolition vs executive dysfunction
- What is dissociative psychosis?
- Different types of hallucinations
- Psychosis in NPD, and autism and self diagnosis
- What does "odd speech and thinking" mean?
- Cotard's delusion / syndrome
- Coping strategies for psychosis
- Delusions vs paranoia
- A personal experience of clinical lycanthropy
- The continuum of delusional misidentification
Schizophrenia spectrum (schizospec)
- A basic introduction to schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia diagnostic criteria
- Resources for people on the schizospec
- Tips for figuring out where you are on the schizospec?
- Do the schizotaxic PDs count as schizospec?
- Psychosis and schizospec experiences are complicated and messy (and that's ok)
- Ipseity disturbances and thoughts
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Autism
- Examples of living with ASD (part A)
- Examples of living with ASD (part B)
- What do meltdowns and shutdowns look like?
- Autism and OCD
- Shutdowns vs meltdowns vs panic attacks vs sensory overload
- Autism vs schizophrenia
- A guide to autistic burnout
- Questions to ask yourself if you’re considering if you’re autistic
- The 4 Fs and autism
- Freeze response vs shutdowns
- Autism resources masterpost (1)
- Autism resources masterpost (2)
- Autistic masking and recovery
- Community sourced ASD criteria
- Studies on autism and somatic symptoms
- Autism, psychosis and intrusive thoughts
- Social anxiety vs autism
- Tips for autistic adults
- On functioning and support labels
- What does autistic catatonia feel like?
- Stimming (meant for writing autistic characters)
- Autism support levels infographic
- Verbality and verbal labels
- Tips for dealing with unpredictability
ADHD
- Bipolar mania vs ADHD hyperfocus
- ADHD self diagnosis
- Examples of living with hyperactive ADHD
- Examples of living with inattentive ADHD
- Symptoms of ADHD that aren’t often talked about
- Concentration Deficit Disorder
- ADHD checklist
ASD & ADHD comorbidity
- ASD, ADHD & PTSD
- Overlapping ASD & ADHD symptoms
- Differences between ASD & ADHD
- Distinguishing ADHD & ASD
- Hyperfocus vs ADHD hyperfixation vs ASD special interest
- Other disorders vs ASD and/or ADHD
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Other Disorders and Miscellaneous Posts
OCD
- Examples of living with OCD
- OCD and psychosis
- OCD themes
- The 4 categories of OCD themes
- Harm OCD
- OCD myths and facts
- OCD intrusive thoughts
- OCD self diagnosis
- OCD and delusional insight
- Dealing with triggers when you have OCD
Self diagnosis
- How to self diagnose
- Let's talk about self diagnosis
- Differential diagnosis: figuring out underlying reasons for symptoms
Eating disorders
- ED recovery boundaries
- The ED spectrum
- BMI is a big fat lie
- How do I move in a way that feels good?
- ED recovery and activism recommendations
- What is "normal eating"?
- You need between 2500-3500 calories per day to be healthily supporting your body
- Scientific resources debunking fatphobic myths
- On figuring out if your eating is disordered
Therapy and recovery
- Alternatives to psych wards
- Alternatives to psych wards for chronically suicidal people (follow up to the above post)
- DBT skills masterpost
- Description of DBT skills
- DBT skills workbook
- Studying with cognitive disabilitiess
- Disability and chronic illness masterpost [link TBA]
- Mental health masterpost
- Sexual health and disability masterpost
- Disability and mental health masterpost
- Dealing with executive dysfunction masterpost
- RAIN: radical compassion
- Model for describing emotions
- Emotion words
- Alternatives for mindfulness
- Coping strategies, from adaptive to maladaptive
- Relaxation and grounding skill
- 10 things I wish clients knew before starting therapy
- Listening to your body:
- On 'urge surfing' and ways to cope
- Feeling bored, impulsive or aggressive?
- Mental stability tips for tough times
- Your rights and boundaries
- How to tell if you're emotionally abusive
- How to apologise when you were wrong
- Coping with emotional permanence issues
- How to feel like a person
- Why am I feeling bad?
- What "feeling better" can look like after using coping techniques
- Assessing your self-care
- Looking After Yourself, self help resources for mental health problems
Miscellaneous
- The spectrum of executive functioning
- Laziness Does Not Exist, an article by Devon Price
- Habits vs tics vs stims vs compulsions
- Disability justice reading list
- Mad studies reading list
- Mad studes syllabus
- Venn diagrams of overlapping symptoms masterpost
- Examples of living with GAD
- Examples of living with Specific Learning Disorder
- Symptoms of dyscalculia
- Immersive vs maladaptive daydreaming
- E-cards for communication
- Scripts for talking to doctors
- What does 'cognitive issues' mean in diagnostic criteria?
- Trans Vitality Toolkit
- Substance use harm reduction resources
- List of Australian queer community support services
- Empathy vs compassion and similar terms
- Proposed criteria for Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder
- A personal experience of low empathy
- Self esteem vs emotional dysregulation
- Basic scientific literacy
- Dealing with executive dysfunction
- Tips for reading with a learning disability
- Am I having a brain problem or am I being a shithead? A procrastination flowchart
- Executive functioning tool
- Favourite Person (FP) vs hyperfixations vs OCD obsessions and compulsions
- Differentiating between feelings and faux feelings