[Sometimes psychotic]

How Did Toast Become the Latest Artisanal Food Craze? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

This is a pretty cool upbeat story of struggle and success for someone with psychosis...

[newtus]

"Carrelli tends toward the vivid, manic end of the mood spectrum, she says, but the onset of a psychotic episode can shut her down with little warning for hours, days, or, in the worst instances, months. Even on good days, she struggles to maintain a sense of self; for years her main means of achieving this was to write furiously in notebooks, trying to get the essentials down on paper. When an episode comes on, she describes the experience as a kind of death: Sometimes she gets stuck hallucinating, hearing voices, unable to move or see clearly; other times she has wandered the city aimlessly. “Sometimes I don’t recognize myself,” she says. “I get so much disorganized brain activity, I would get lost for 12 hours.”"

[newtus]

i like this

"The more people who recognized her, the more she stood a chance of being able to recognize herself."

[newtus]

i always wished i could become successfull with sz. i dont think thats a possibility anymore.

[Sometimes psychotic]

Originally Posted by newtus

i always wished i could become successfull with sz. i dont think thats a possibility anymore.

You never know---as long as you are alive there is still a chance---I think a lot of people like your art---that's one possibility...

[faerie_moon_x]

I agree with Sometimes. You never know. And, i think you have a lot of potential. Maybe you won't make the news but you can still do a lot of things with your life.

LOVE the article about the toast. And I love it that San Francisco has such a rich tradition of allowing people to be who we are.