**a flexible brain can understand things multiple ways, here are three stories to describe psychosis from the inside. This one is dedicated to the beautiful human being and woman I regard as my soul sister, my closest friend (other than my better half and husband), the always sincere HG. I am truly blessed to call you friend.**
ONE - the most secular:
When psychosis begins the euphoria comes from a violent unification of the self abandoned in childhood, the one who love animals and had never knowingly committed a bad act with the upper brain, the conscious that knows all the compromises you've been making for food, water, shelter and love (the four things that are essential for survival). The person begins to feel anything is possible but then the united brain goes to war. The pure self that was isolated hates the other self and unless a peace can be truly brokered, medication will be needed to subdue a confused and angry brain. "Health" is restored when the separation is achieved again, but once united, the brain does not want to be separated again, it demands unification and so the mental illness is deleterious. But with a active help the person's whole mind can achieve peace. The new unified mind will need wholesome work that achieves whatever social goal they most believe in - charity work for example. Money can't buy mental wellness and pills don't fix they just try to re-establish the same chasm between our conscience and our actions. When we abandon our new "insane" causes they declare us "well." The problem is, they aren't well themselves, born in the same toxic soup as the rest of us they think a divided mind is the correct model, or perhaps they don't realize it is divided.
TWO - the most religious (Abrahamic):
When psychosis begins it is a spiritual attack. The demons fill the mind as unified minds are free but would never choose to betray God, to betray love. With a unified mind you are free, surrendered, free thinking but understand fully what betraying your God given nature costs you, your family and God's earth. So in psychosis Satan tries to fool you, to take you from that path to God and true happiness with complete free will but in total surrender. Satan will tell you anything to stop this happening, he will confuse you with any delusion that works - grandeur, financial success, celebrity status. Satan will do the most damage he can. Hence the adage- it is only the best of us that are tested. Psychosis is when our minds reach out for God, to unite the mind, but in that moment Satan can also enter and psychotic terror begins. Truly it is a waking nightmare. But if you can ignore Satan he can't hurt you at all and when his voice goes your freedom is won and you can set about improving the world.
THREE - a blend:
The mind divides when society demands we "grow up." At this point we are expected not to cry when we see hurt and bloodshed, we are supposed to like horror movies and halloween. The thing is, that isn't "growing up" it's how the mind is deliberately injured so that our children can survive in the toxic world we have. It’s why we stay addicte to the news, complicit in our own injury and our innate intelligence crippled by fear. When we “toughen” up a “soft” child we do it to help them succeed, a misguided loving act, but some kids can’t be saved that way and they kill themselves. We can’t accept a way of being that sacrifices even one child so we must accept God sent change. It just so happens that this change also saves the earth the children need to live on. Hang on, I hope you’ll see how this is linked into the story of psychosis… or maybe not, I do take tangents sometimes.
The mind that was separated at some point in childhood enters adulthood. The more severe the separation the better the child will fare. More separation makes the person more “type A” - a go getter, still with morals but competitive. If the separation is even more severe you get sociopathy or even psychopathy. So indeed, it is the best of us, the ones with the least separation that are most likely to snap into psychoses - a “nervous breakdown” - when the weight of eating while others starve takes you down and the mind seizes an opportunity for unity.
Just as God is real, so is Satan, and when we reach for God it opens the door to both. Psychotic nightmare ensues and the doctors work to restore the previous wellness, unaware that the mind doesn’t want the separation any longer - it wants unity to protect if from committing more “sins” that give “guilt.” The patient doesn’t want their old mind back, they want an improved version, a re-boot, the original and best back, to be the person they were born to be, ready to fulfill their dreams - saving children, riding with dolphins, saving forests, being a superhero! If you don’t understand that, you can’t “cure” or even help psychosis.
***To help the psychotic patient, or the patient with anxiety disorder, to adjust to this new existence they must first understand that there is a form of “good hypocrisy.” You can be proud to be a “hypocrite” when you have more personal beliefs than it is possible for any person to follow in our society and be sane. If they can be helped to understand that they can stay unified, angelic and brave.***
ONE - the most secular:
When psychosis begins the euphoria comes from a violent unification of the self abandoned in childhood, the one who love animals and had never knowingly committed a bad act with the upper brain, the conscious that knows all the compromises you've been making for food, water, shelter and love (the four things that are essential for survival). The person begins to feel anything is possible but then the united brain goes to war. The pure self that was isolated hates the other self and unless a peace can be truly brokered, medication will be needed to subdue a confused and angry brain. "Health" is restored when the separation is achieved again, but once united, the brain does not want to be separated again, it demands unification and so the mental illness is deleterious. But with a active help the person's whole mind can achieve peace. The new unified mind will need wholesome work that achieves whatever social goal they most believe in - charity work for example. Money can't buy mental wellness and pills don't fix they just try to re-establish the same chasm between our conscience and our actions. When we abandon our new "insane" causes they declare us "well." The problem is, they aren't well themselves, born in the same toxic soup as the rest of us they think a divided mind is the correct model, or perhaps they don't realize it is divided.
TWO - the most religious (Abrahamic):
When psychosis begins it is a spiritual attack. The demons fill the mind as unified minds are free but would never choose to betray God, to betray love. With a unified mind you are free, surrendered, free thinking but understand fully what betraying your God given nature costs you, your family and God's earth. So in psychosis Satan tries to fool you, to take you from that path to God and true happiness with complete free will but in total surrender. Satan will tell you anything to stop this happening, he will confuse you with any delusion that works - grandeur, financial success, celebrity status. Satan will do the most damage he can. Hence the adage- it is only the best of us that are tested. Psychosis is when our minds reach out for God, to unite the mind, but in that moment Satan can also enter and psychotic terror begins. Truly it is a waking nightmare. But if you can ignore Satan he can't hurt you at all and when his voice goes your freedom is won and you can set about improving the world.
THREE - a blend:
The mind divides when society demands we "grow up." At this point we are expected not to cry when we see hurt and bloodshed, we are supposed to like horror movies and halloween. The thing is, that isn't "growing up" it's how the mind is deliberately injured so that our children can survive in the toxic world we have. It’s why we stay addicte to the news, complicit in our own injury and our innate intelligence crippled by fear. When we “toughen” up a “soft” child we do it to help them succeed, a misguided loving act, but some kids can’t be saved that way and they kill themselves. We can’t accept a way of being that sacrifices even one child so we must accept God sent change. It just so happens that this change also saves the earth the children need to live on. Hang on, I hope you’ll see how this is linked into the story of psychosis… or maybe not, I do take tangents sometimes.
The mind that was separated at some point in childhood enters adulthood. The more severe the separation the better the child will fare. More separation makes the person more “type A” - a go getter, still with morals but competitive. If the separation is even more severe you get sociopathy or even psychopathy. So indeed, it is the best of us, the ones with the least separation that are most likely to snap into psychoses - a “nervous breakdown” - when the weight of eating while others starve takes you down and the mind seizes an opportunity for unity.
Just as God is real, so is Satan, and when we reach for God it opens the door to both. Psychotic nightmare ensues and the doctors work to restore the previous wellness, unaware that the mind doesn’t want the separation any longer - it wants unity to protect if from committing more “sins” that give “guilt.” The patient doesn’t want their old mind back, they want an improved version, a re-boot, the original and best back, to be the person they were born to be, ready to fulfill their dreams - saving children, riding with dolphins, saving forests, being a superhero! If you don’t understand that, you can’t “cure” or even help psychosis.
***To help the psychotic patient, or the patient with anxiety disorder, to adjust to this new existence they must first understand that there is a form of “good hypocrisy.” You can be proud to be a “hypocrite” when you have more personal beliefs than it is possible for any person to follow in our society and be sane. If they can be helped to understand that they can stay unified, angelic and brave.***