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The Futures We Never Got to Mourn
CW: Childlessness, chronic illness, trauma
Oct 21
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Libby Banks
The Attachment Style That Hid from Me
Why I Couldn't Recognize My Own Avoidance
Oct 14
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Libby Banks
The Critique Doesn’t Collapse: Reading, Recursion, and the Permission to Spiral
I am a person who has often been told to “not read too much into it.” It genuinely can be well-meaning.
Oct 7
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Libby Banks
September 2025
It's Not Indecision, It's Devotion
The worst place to have a crisis of morality is the candy aisle at 10:30 PM.
Sep 30
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Libby Banks
Living Life Out of Order: What Lilia Calderu Teaches Us About Dissociation and Integration
Content warning: This essay discusses dissociation and dissociative experiences through the lens of a fictional character.
Sep 23
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Libby Banks
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The Cost of Misrecognition
People who reference the double empathy problem often treat it as a therapeutic puzzle - autistic and allistic people simply failing to sync due to…
Sep 16
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Libby Banks
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The Quiet That Wasn't Vigilance
Filed under: grief logic and cellular loyalty.
Sep 9
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Libby Banks
Some Days I Locate My Exit
CW: dissociation, complex trauma, chronic pain, embodiment struggles
Sep 2
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Libby Banks
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August 2025
The Library With the Lights Off
CW: dissociation/depersonalization, discussion of trauma survival mechanisms
Aug 26
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Libby Banks
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Rashomon Brain
CW: discusses trauma processing, dissociation, flashbacks (non-graphic)
Aug 19
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Libby Banks
Someone Who Could Finally Take Care of Me
On being hard to care for, unmasking in mutual design, and what people see when it finally works
Aug 12
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Libby Banks
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Special Edition Field Manual: Practicing in the Gaps
Providing Radical Therapy While Billing Insurance
Aug 6
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Libby Banks
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