![]() ![]() ![]() I’m interested in this illogical space and its relationship not only to anxiety / mental illness, but illness in general. This seems similar to your description of depersonalization disorder, of being “blasted into an abyss-like space where nothing holds together.” A couple months back, I had an intense panic attack precipitated by the sensation-not a thought, but a physical feeling-of language’s futility I felt myself falling into the cracks where narrative would not hold. I mentioned before that I’ve been diagnosed with depression / anxiety. Lucy Blagg: I wanted to begin by talking a little bit about what first drew me to Sick Woman Theory. It’s saying we need to recognize that we’re all temporarily able-bodi ed, at best.” “Sick Woman Theory is providing a language and an identity for people who are written off this way all the time. ![]() “People look at me and they write me off as disabled, fat, old, lesbian, mentally ill,” she said. I had just read Sick Woman Theory, and finding it relevant to the discussion at hand I brought it up to the group. One of the women there was Aria, a quietly commanding presence: white hair and black dress, powdery skin and a few missing fingers, in a wheelchair, fiercely intelligent and emotionally wise. A few weeks before Johanna Hedva and I started emailing back and forth, I was at an anti-racist workshop on the intersectionality of racism and ableism. ![]()
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