Through the Static

This is a blog for anyone who has been through a psychosis and wants to get back into life- and not just survive it, but flourish.

It focuses on the aftermath. When the tornado has already gone through and you're left standing in the rubble wondering: how do I re-build?

It doesn't focus on the psychosis itself. Instead it's the information I wish I got on discharge- a manual for living again.

This is for humans who have been through it and feel terrified and alone.

This is for family members who don't understand what their loved one is going through.

This is for humans who've recovered but never found words for what happened to them.

And it's for those who not only want to get well- but want to kick-arse at life again.

I have had approximately four psychotic episodes. The first being at 21 and that was as traumatic as hell (the last during COVID). In between I've had smaller ones when the stress of life piled on. And each time no-one ever gave me the information that I desperately needed on how to get back into reality and how to make sense of what I had been through.

But I feel I have navigated that swamp now. Muddy and bruised but out the other side.

What I learned is that ignoring it doesn't help. So instead I used myself as a human guinea pig- finding the techniques and tools that actually work, testing them on myself, and slowly getting back into life fully. Until the memory of the psychosis faded off into the distance like mud washed off in the rain.

That is what I have achieved. And I want that for you too.

So let's stand in the aftermath together. With worn out tools and lots of hope, let's re-build a life until your psychosis was just a tiny bump in the road.

And we can all get back to living.