Understanding Psychosis and Mental Illness: A Guide

Understanding Psychosis and Mental Illness: A Guide -By Som Dutt from https://embraceinnerchaos.comPhoto byTimur RomanovonUnsplash

The picture in your mind is one of you being on the road you know well, when suddenly the traffic lights around you whisper something to you. (Yeah, this is what a person suffering from psychosis might feel like.) Your mind—it's a kind of jelly like that in the skull—is throwing balls that are so whacky that no one gets what you mean by them?'

Hey now, this time around is not your usual mental health lecture! Psychosis is like a monster that hangs around the space where the regular thoughts play hide-and-seek with the reality?' It's as if your brain decided to surprise you with an unexpected party but somehow forgot to tell you about it.

This article is just the summary of my full comprehensive, well-researched and long article that you can read from here:

https://embraceinnerchaos.com/mental-health/understanding-psychosis-and-mental-illness-a-guide/

So, the point is that the problem with psychosis is that it affects your mind in such a way that you may not even believe it when you hear about it (the irony is not lost on us, either)'. Have a look at these mind-blowing pieces of information that will likely impress you:

1. Now, those hallucinations are not just about seeing things—some individuals get to taste the colors or smell the tunes that simply do not exist. For instance, imagine eating purple caramel while someone is talking to you!

2. When the episodes occur, some people begin to respond to really complex patterns on the basis of their hallucinatory experiences; they might really believe that their neighbours' cat is writing them messages in its meows. (Here's the thing: Kitty just wants a treat.)

3. Elapsed time gets even corkscrewed that more than a pretzel in a washing machine'—a minute might seem to be an eternity, while a whole day dissappears like free pizza at a dorm.

But no one ever lets you know that recovery is not a straight path as if someone drew a straight line with a ruler. It's as if a flying butterfly was drunk—going everywhere but somehow still moving forward'. You can find a fit some days and on the bad ones, you seem to crush crackers to your soup while you're sock-decked.

Please read my other articles for references:

https://embraceinnerchaos.com/mental-health/psychosis-vs-schizophrenia-18-key-differences/

https://embraceinnerchaos.com/mental-health/psychosis-everything-you-need-to-know/

https://embraceinnerchaos.com/mental-health/18-warning-signs-of-psychosis/

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