Patrick Bryce Wright, author

It's a lie that healing is always about love, forgiving, and letting bygones by bygones. Another type of healing involves blocking people on your phone and social media accounts and kicking them out of your life.

Handling different names and switching between parts     Photo by Chris Hardy on Unsplash As someone with dissociative identity disorder...

The moment I understood I am a they  Original image by Pixabay. Edited in Canva by Keith Miller.   Have you ever wondered what it’s like...

This is my author interview with my editors at Wicked Ink , who have allowed me to share it with you on my blog. Author Spotlight...

And Being Told to Hide Both If you are a member of Medium, please support me by reading this article here. I have four intersecting...

Since Conjure Hill is being released this month, I want to go on record and be clear: I am my own sensitivity reader. I wrote a novel...

My former therapist figured out I was trans before I did, I think. She asked me pointblank back in 2014 if I would cut off my breasts if...

We’re entitled to basic human coping mechanisms. TW: discussion of child abuse (physical abuse) Yesterday, I had to take my elderly cat...

On writing Facing the Curse In writing my novel Facing the Curse, I had three basic goals in mind: one, portraying Dissociative Identity...

Since Facing the Curse is being released tomorrow, on Dec. 2, I want to go on record and be clear: I am my own sensitivity reader. I...

I’m third gender, bi/pansexual, and neuro-divergent. I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and am hard of hearing, and my goal as a...

Abuse survivors, and most people in general, need to hear this:

Using writing to process trauma Over the course of just two weeks, I had four different people ask me if I think writing can either help...

I am ridiculously strong. All the traumas I experienced never made me weak. I have said elsewhere that I am a survivor of extreme...

I think one of the interesting things about being in a fandom is watching people argue about what is in-character or out-of-character for...

I have spent the entire last seven years on a journey to discover both my gender identity and my sexual orientation. And, man, has that...

There is really old writing advice that says, "Write what you know." I had always tried to follow it, although solid research can help...

As someone who would normally be called "hearing impaired"--or, rather, who has deaf gain--I often think about what will happen if I...

As someone who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian denomination, I find this post really hits me hard. When I was a child, everyone...

My S.O. feels this post sums up their life history effectively. Just develop a medical condition that is less common, and apparently this...