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...

Brace yourselves for a journey into the depths of the unknown. Dive into a world where reality blurs and shadows hold secrets untold....

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...

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

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...

If you are a member of Medium, please support me by reading this article here. A growing number of movies and novels love to portray...

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

The most important thing I learned during my recovery was not to blame myself. I think this post captures that well:

Here's a reality check about toddlers. Before you create a whole new generation of traumatized kids, stop and consider this:

Jeff Brown has some decent wisdom. Even if two people have the same type of trauma, their roads to recovery won't be the exact same.