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The Great Outdoors, Indoors – Gaming with Chronic Illness

I’ve been sick for 34 years. When I was younger, my disease would ebb and flow, painfully inflamming every joint…

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020Courtney Craven
Tagged with: Fallout 4, Grief, Why I Play
6 minute read

Grief-Gaming is a series in which I will explore video game worlds playing as my deceased partner’s avatar. Games have been…

February 8, 2020February 8, 2020Christy Smith
Tagged with: Intro Post
8 minute read

Hi. I’m Christy. I do visually impaired reviews for Switch games. And I wanted to introduce myself a bit and…

March 9, 2019August 5, 2019Courtney Craven
Tagged with: Grief, Gris, Loss
5 minute read

In the days since Susan, my games writing/review partner and partner in life, passed away unexpectedly, I’ve turned to games…

Every day when I’m leaving my home, I set the alarm and press the pad of my thumb into the…

December 1, 2018August 5, 2019Courtney Craven
Tagged with: Lupus, Red Dead Redemption 2
9 minute read

My beloved horse, Biscuit, is dead. Killed by my own hand after being ambushed by the O’Driscolls and caught with…

December 1, 2018July 27, 2020Susan
Tagged with: Mental Health, Prey, Schizophrenia, Video Games
13 minute read

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 17. It was right around my birthday in January, and I’d just…