Tag: delusions
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There are only seven basic plots
Sleeper – Part one. A memoir of my last psychosis, with the love and kindness of Londoners “She’s confused” Hamid Hussein looks up from his notes. His two colleagues agree that I should be detained. Hamid draws the pro forma from his in-tray and, checking his watch, begins writing in the top left hand corner:…
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Does everyone go through bipolar denial?
My first acute episode of mental illness was psychotic depression. Looking back on it the whole thing was very scary compared to later instances: On discharge my sick note read “Mental illness”, nothing more specific. They hoped this was a one-off. I went back to work, continuing to attend as an outpatient for a year…
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Give me my rapture: psychotic mania
Even now after three decades of living with bipolar, psychosis creeps up on me. I keep a mood diary, take my meds every night and monitor my sleep conscientiously yet still believe I can double bluff the quick thinking, rapid speech, overconfidence and productivity of hypomania. Self management of hypomania I have tried and tested…
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“Is being mentally ill normal?”
This is one of those auto suggested queries from Google when you start typing, so I guess quite a few people ask it. I have had five hospital admissions, including the last one, ten years ago, under the Mental Health Act, as a compulsory patient. In one earlier case, although I was very unwell and…
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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…