Psychosis can be a very isolating experience.
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A Sparkling Personality
What do you think of when you hear the words “self-care?”
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Yesterday, I got the dreaded, “Hey, where are you?” call from work.
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Chance and I were sitting on my bedroom floor, coloring a fuzzy poster with markers. It was late, we had hip-hop playing on my speaker, I was getting sleepy, and all I could think was, I’m going insane! I’m going insane!
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“I haven’t heard Henry’s voice in quite a while,” I thought to myself yesterday.
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At the end of last year, I was deteriorating quickly.
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In high school, my literature class was assigned to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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Psychosis is believing my worst thoughts, my own interior monologue taking on a life of its own, physical sensations that don’t line up with reality, fears bigger than the moon, and logic that is completely inexplicable to anyone else.
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Staying up until 5:00 AM the night before you have to do anything is rarely a good idea.
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Semisolid Sanity 