Want to keep yourself up to date with the latest news from Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders"?
Subscribe using the "Follow" button below and we provide you with customized updates, via topic or tag, that get delivered to your email address, your smartphone or on your dedicated news page on follow.it.
You can unsubscribe at any time painlessly.
Title of Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders": "Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders" - New understandings of the mind and of madness can open doors to full recovery"
Is this your feed? Claim it!
While people are still routinely told that their psychosis is a brain illness, probably caused by their genetic predisposition, more and more professionals are aware that it’s very common for psychological trauma to precede and be a likely cause for psychosis. Unfortunately though, many of these professionals who do understand the role of trauma still […]
The post
Madness, aka psychosis, is in some ways like wilderness. A person can be lost in the wilderness, utterly bereft, suffering terribly, and desperately needing rescue. When we focus on those sorts of possibilities, it seems that wilderness is a terrible thing, and that it would make sense to stay away from it as much as […]
The post
Hugh Massengil shot video of Ron Coleman and Paul Baker giving a presentation at the LILA Peer Support Club in Eugene, Oregon on November 14, 2010. This includes Ron telling his story (starting on the second video.) Ron at one point was what some might call a “sad case of chronic schizophrenia” – a man […]
The post
Psychiatrists are commonly expected to be persuading people to take drugs called “antipsychotics” whenever they experience psychosis, or when there is risk of psychosis returning. But people taking those drugs commonly dislike them, and there is much evidence that many people can recover without continuing to take them, and there is evidence that the drugs […]
The post...