There’s a powerful urge in each of us to talk about our traumas. “A psychotic episode is like experiencing trauma,” Steve says. I think Steve’s right when he talks about psychosis as being like a trauma. Psychosis does traumatize you, in much the same way that ducking gunfire in a war zone or having a terrible car crash traumatizes you. And the best way to take away the power of trauma is to talk about what happened.
