What I Think Psychosis Is And Why We Should Welcome It

I am a psychology graduate with extensive experience of psychosis. I’ve had 15 episodes over the course of 25 years. I write, therefore, as a someone with lived experience, who has been through the psychiatric system but also as someone with someone who has studied brain and behaviour and abnormal psychology at university.

I have been hospitalised, sectioned, as well as cared for at home, more times than I would have liked.

When I came out of hospital, after my first psychotic episod...