TheKnow Database Round-Up 1 can be found here.
TheKnow Database Round-Up 2 can be found here.
Welcome to our third database round-up! Thank you to everyone who has joined or started watching since last time. And thank you so much to everyone who added to the database and offered to help with the requests.
Here are the latest submissions to the database:
Health
Burns and skin grafts: camelopardalisinblue has experience with chemical burns and skin grafts, having received both numerous times.
Concussions: TheChesherCat has received two head concussions from sports, and was forced to quit playing for risk of further damage. She can rattle off nearly every symptom of a concussion and can also describe the situation and sensation of receiving one.
Personal
Mental Health: camelopardalisinblue has personal experience with several mental health diagnoses-- Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Generalised Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Identities Disorder, Depersonalisation Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; and in addition to these, has experience living with someone with Social Anxiety Disorder & depression (her mother), BPD, PTSD and Social Anxiety Disorder (all partner).
Aside from the disorders themselves, she also has specific personal experience dealing with flashbacks, repressed memories, abuse (childhood, domestic and outside assault), body dysmorphia, hallucinations/pyschotic symptoms and self harm. camelopardalisinblue states that as well as answering questions for writing research, she is willing to answer questions for personal knowledge/stigma reduction.
If any of those areas would be useful for your writing research, please contact the submitter directly by sending them a note. If you want to make a submission to the database yourself, the information is on our profile.
Requests
We take requests for information too. If you need someone else’s personal experience or knowledge as help with your writing research, and it isn’t in the database, leave a comment here. We’ll gather all the requests together and put them out as another journal, asking if anyone can help. Though if someone reading this journal sees a request in the comments they can help with, please feel free to contact the requester immediately.
You can make a request at any time—leave a comment on whatever is the current journal or on the group profile, or send us a note. It isn’t necessary to be a member or a watcher to make a request, but it would be lovely if you joined in.
We didn’t have any new requests last week, so I’ll just give previous requests that didn’t appear to get a response another mention here:
MarcoEmma would love to talk to someone who is/has been a contractor.
TheChesherCat is looking for specific information about driving a delivery truck (think UPS and such) in a city. She says she has no idea how the job works or what it entails, and any information would be welcome.
You can find the whole requests round-up journal here.
Favourites
If the database or requests system helps you in writing something, we would like to put the finished article in our favourites. So, if you post your piece on dA and would like it to feature in our collection, please send us a link! We’re thinking about featuring the stories in our journals too.
Watching TheKnow
A note for anyone passing by: we understand some people may not want their details permanently on show in the database, but may feel comfortable talking to requesters privately via note. In that case, please consider watching TheKnow so you can keep an eye on the journals and what’s being looked for.
