Author

Mara Noer

@maranoer

TCH AI

Dragon Keeper

I woke up during the night. My mind spiralled with paranoid thoughts, dark and rapidly shifting imagery, heart fiercely hammering against…

Jun 22, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #paranoia #psychotic-episode #lived-experience

MED LIF

It was my last psychotic episode. And the only one I ever experienced in a therapy session. I don’t know what our conversation had been…

Jul 01, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #psychotic-episode #angst #relapse

This was another late afternoon. We went grocery shopping in the basement of Hysan Place in Causeway Bay, a high-end, well-curated…

Jun 23, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #anxiety-disorder #dissociation #panic-attack

MED LIF

Many of us have our own memories of bizarre nightmares. They are often most prevalent in our childhood and pre-adolescence, the worst and…

Jul 04, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #panic-attack #fever-dreams #anxiety-disorder

LIF

At times, the boundaries between everything sharpened suddenly, both physically and in some less tangible way — as if awareness itself had…

Jun 26, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #heightened-awareness #satori #kensho

SCI

During some of these psychotic episodes, time seemed to stand still.

Jul 07, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #time-and-space-complexity #conciousness #infinity

For the first six months, the body was on constant alert; every cell shaken, every sense sharpened beyond its limits, the mind dissolving…

Jun 29, 2026 · 1 min read · 0 claps #inner-chaos #mental-loops #hypersensitivity