A New Podcast: Fractured Ink

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Diana Dirkby discusses the transition from her podcast 'Schizophrenia as I Live it' to her new podcast 'Fractured Ink', exploring the interplay of her mental health conditions and creative pursuits.

Send us Fan Mail A significant transition is underway as I prepare to close "Schizophrenia as I Live it" and launch my new podcast "Fractured Ink." While schizophrenia has been central to my story, it's just one piece of a complex puzzle that includes complex PTSD, absence epilepsy, and my creative identity as a novelist and poet. These conditions, as I explain, "feed off each other" in ways that create a uniquely challenging yet creatively fertile internal landscape. My journey from researc...

People in this episode

Host: Diana Dirkby

Topics covered

• schizophrenia
• complex PTSD
• absence epilepsy
• creative identity
• novelist
• poet

Keywords

• schizophrenia
• complex PTSD
• absence epilepsy
• creative identity
• novelist
• poet

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fractured Ink, Schizophrenia as I Live it

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