Find a therapist to treat psychosis

Short-term thinking and emotions are inevitable and understandable as an emergency response to trauma.

Collateral damage due to a psychotic break, the big emotions, and isolation cause short-sightedness.

Developing a long-term perspective affords patience to weather early recovery.

My "why" for writing has always been the same: I write what I wish I could have read in early recovery and offer a longer-term perspective to people in the throes of early recovery challenges, as short-sighted thinking and emotions are typical. Short-term perspectives are almost inevitable for many reasons.

First, most people don’t know of a single other person with their illness, especially if it is schizophrenia. It’s easy to feel like you are a bizarre case or a mystery the world has never seen before. It’s so difficult when you have no one to speak to who can really understand what you have been through, and no one to relate similar experiences with. It seems like most people won’t disclose schizophrenia due to concerns with professional reputation. Even after several years of speaking, writing, and facilitating a support group, I still know very few people, probably less than 15, who have disclosed to me a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective. It took my joining a support group 10 years after being diagnosed with schizophrenia to meet the first person in my life who disclosed a diagnosis with the prefix of ‘schizo’ in it.

Overwhelming Emotions

Short-term thinking and isolation are also created through extraordinary levels of emotions like humiliation, shame, hopelessness, isolation, secrecy, and stigma. The........

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