MadNOTBad Content By Topic: Psychosis (Including 'Schizophrenia')

Psychosis (Including 'Schizophrenia')

voices ... visions ... unusual perceptions ... distressing beliefs

The Voices In My Head - Trying to show what it can feel like
The Destructive Voice - A picture of one of his five voices

Captured! - Being sectioned, and the effect on the voices
Milestones On My Recovery Road - A list of the things that have helped him
Dark To Light & Back Again - Experiences of bipolar disorder
My Story - *Trigger* Schizoaffective disorder, BPD, distressing beliefs & abuse
Losing Myself Inside - How I feel like I'm not really here
Let Me Sleep - The devestating effect of insomnia on your mind
As He Walked Down The Corridor - Nurses not help with medication confusion
He Sat In The Corner Of The Room - On the ward, full of side effects and feeling invisible
Hard Wired - Mad Thinking - How it feels when my thoughts are electric
Relapsing Again - *Trigger* A letter trying to explain what was happening to me
Picking & Pulling - How my self harm related to my unusual beliefs
My First Voices - The first time I remember hearing my voices
Brain Chemical Or Trauma? - Trying to make sense of why I got ill
The Aftermath - Feeling weird after no sleep, asking why
Hallucinations - *Trigger* Remembering a very bad time in hospital
The Rollercoaster - My decent into madness via uni

It's Them! - Ignorance about schizophrenia on TV
One Wave Short Of A Shipwreck - The stigma surrounding mental illness
Asking For Help - And not being taken seriously
Not Mad, Not Bad - And not all that dangerous to know
Medication: Is It Enough? - Why i need more than drugs can offer

Recognition - Making sense of your experiences & voices
Look Out, Beware - *Trigger* Feeling tormented, scared & confused
There Was A Blank Page - A visual expression of the voices
Psychotic Illness With Additional Self Harm - It's no joke & often misunderstood
The Voices In My Head #1 - They just won't shut up
The Voices In My Head #2 - When your head feels like a bad radio station
I Woke Up And They Were In There - When the 'voices' set up camp in your head
Crazy Love - Tongue in cheek 12 bar blues
Ups & Downs - Mood swings and delusions, feeling all over the place
Changes - In perspective once it's you who's mad
Safety First - Self disclosure: to tell or not to tell
And In The Dark - Hiding away in the darkness
It Matters To Me - Insomnia makes me feel crazy, more than i am
In A World Made Up Of Words - When nothing spoken makes any sense
The Freighted Height Of Colour - Hightened senses. When everything's vivid but mixed up

CASL - The campaign to abolish the schizophrenia label