My parents, and especially my Mum, think that the whole thing was nothing, a joke, and I should stop going on about it. My Dad actually said earlier "it was a joke: get over it!" My Mum thinks that the problem is 100% me being moody and horrible, and is doing her 'wounded martyr' routine eg "oh I don't know why I bother talking to you when you're so moody and I'm so ill...woe is me blah blah blah", which is one of her favourite roles. Nobody has ever had it as tough as she has, and yet she still does this or that (whatever she thinks I'm not doing: the implication being that I'm morally weak and defective). You can't work with someone who won't acknowledge their part in the problem.

Hope work is ok and you sleep better tonight

I've almost finished skim-reading the Elyn Saks book and have found it really interesting and totally recommend it if you haven't read it. I relate to so much of it! The only think I haven't experienced symptom-wise is disorganised speech - can you have psychosis without disorganised speech? I have trouble thinking and organising thoughts to talk or write at times. I also struggle quite a lot understanding others' speech, but I've never talked the way she sometimes does. My Uni pdoc said I had evidence of mild thought disorder from what I've explained here, but the hospital docs said that was rubbish and I'd never had psychosis, so I don't know who to believe. Has anyone here had experience of a diagnosed psychotic episode where they didn't have disorganised speech??

*Willow*