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Old Aug 28, 2014, 05:07 AM
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Dear splitimage,

Thank you so much for your thoughtful and detailed reply. Being a fiction writer, of course it never occurs to me that people write anything else!

Your slant on living with concurrent disorders recovery is original and fresh. Since it is 80% memoir, I assume you have based a large part of it on your journals and blogs. Are you writing it first person? I am looking forward to reading your blogs, and hopefully, your book. I know that it takes about a year for it to come out. How marvelous that your advance was based on your proposal! That certainly doesn't happen very often! And your experience in publishing will undoubtably come in handy. And I love your handle. It makes me think of a rorschach test or a reference to DID.

As someone who has always lived with concerrent disorders, the recovery section is of great interest. I have lived with bipolar disorder, anxiety and borderline personality disorder as welll as PTSD (and DID when I was younger). I am a veteran and was recently tested, only to find out that I've never been bipolar and had lived with the wrong diagnosis for fourteen years. I have complex PTSD. I have a trauma pdoc, a regular pdoc and a very fine primary care doc. They work as a team on my recovery and I am just coming out of a major PTSD episode. So now we are working on grounding techniques (baby steps) and meds.

So I will be one of your readers that I'm sure will garner a great deal of information from your book. I'm very lucky in that I don't have to navigate the mental health system (I've only been with the VA for about a year) and consider the doctors there to be very dedicated.

I am also very interested in recovery from addiction sans the 12 steps. This also sounds like you are breaking new ground. I hope that when you feel comfortable with it, you will allow me access to one or both of your blogs.

Writing has always been the center of my life, but lately I've thought about giving up. But the thought of letting these disorders take me down when I am so close is hard to swallow. Perhaps you have some words of advice?

Thank you again for your courtesy-I look forward to some fine conversations about the work we both love so much.

Lady C.
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