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Originally Posted by brackenbeard
I was the kind of a guy who sits for hours writing about what's going on in my head, always searching, and going deeper and deeper. I thought that I could solve the puzzle of psychosis. I wanted to write a book on the subject.
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I wanted to write a book, too! Maybe I still will. When I was first starting out, I wish I had found more books about psychosis that were not basically extended lists of all the different drugs one could take.
And I imagine I would be very interested to read a book by you, if you ever did write it.
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Originally Posted by brackenbeard
Now I know my recovery depends on staying out of my head, I also suspect it's my way of healing as well.
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That's my way to recovery, too. I'm just not very good at it!
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I don't really know how to answer your question, or if i've answered it.
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No, you most certainly answered it! Thank you.
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I say that illnesses are empty things, void of meaning, but not because learning about them has nothing to offer. The tools of recovery are important, even if they come down to just common sense. I just think the obsession part of it is what gets to people. Lives dominated by thinking about illnesses. Always conscious of illness, manifested in every interaction with people, and when you're alone.
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Hrm, that's interesting. For me, that was the most damaging part of psychiatry and being in mainstream mental health care. Everything was centred around the illness - how to interact with people when you have the illness, how to work when you have the illness, how to [insert daily activity here] when you have the illness. Every aspect of life, directed through this 'illness' paradigm. It was very destructive for me; demeaning and degrading.
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