Let me tell you a story that should help you deal with explaining a psychosis. There was a customer of mine who had dementia. She had been diagnosed with dementia and everyone knew she had dementia. But her friends, who knew she had it, would say 'Yeah but she
I've just realised what the majority of the tools in my toolbox are doing. They are creating positive sensory experiences. Because when you have a psychosis it is one big negative sensory experience: the hearing of things, the hallucinations, the paranoia, the disorganised thinking. It's one
I've found it's not just about adding tools to my toolbox that helps. But also taking away things helps just as much. Doing this creates a buffer I so sorely needed at times. Things I've taken away: * My Apple Watch: this used to vibrate
The following is what I use to keep myself well. I find these techniques very grounding and relaxing on my brain. I have a real interest in finding techniques that work to decrease stress on myself. I have tried a lot of things. I am not going to write a
There are two types of people in this world. Those that have blinkers and blind spots and are aware of them. And those that don't have them because they are not aware of them. Everyone has blinkers and blindspots. And the sooner you admit you have them, the
Imagine instead of rating your anxiety and flight mode out of ten, you visualised it. Visualise a ten level building. When you are on levels 1 to 3 you are calm and relaxed. When you are on levels 4 to 6 you are more anxious and entering flight mode. You
When you are in psychosis, the hardest thing to grasp is what happens to time. For me, the best way to describe it is it's like the sense of day and night no longer exist and the sense of the day ending will never happen. It's
I found after my psychosis I was on constant high alert still. Alert to whether it would happen again. Probably because I had little understanding about it. Would I be living my life as usual again and then would I just become psychotic? I couldn't control it the
I recall one story my mother tells of speaking to a young man who was a patient. The next day she said hello to him and used his name and he became extremely confused and aggressive because he couldn't understand how this lady knew his name. He obviously
This is a blog for anyone who has been through a psychosis and wants to get back into life- and not just survive it, but flourish. It focuses on the aftermath. When the tornado has already gone through and you're left standing in the rubble wondering: how do
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