Category: Lived experience
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The agony and ecstasy of psychosis
Content warning: some descriptions of psychotic delusions may distress 9th May 2022 sees the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and my contribution is following up on a previous post about my experience of psychosis because I think it is a topic, the detail of which is not widely written about, so…
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Recovering from psychosis
I have experienced six psychoses in my thirty years of a bipolar life, each one different from the last and each with its own dominant theme. To my well self, these episodes can be shocking even when I can’t remember all the details, and making sense of them is quite hard. I’ve yet to meet…