Things clearly weren’t right so I went to the university counselling service and told them I was hearing voices and couldn’t keep up with my work
Emma Harding, from Tooting, South London, became psychotic while studying for a degree in psychology. Now recovered she is a clinical psychologist for the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and works with people with psychosis.
Psychminded exclusively publishes Harding’s chapter in a new book, Psychosis: Stories of Recovery and Hope, which details her experience. You can read it here Psychminded.co.uk
Stop calling the experience of schizophrenia a disease. Irrationality is not a disease. It is a legitimiate source of knowledge that can provide tremendous information if only it is taken as seriously as rationality and non-rationality. We need people who can help us navigate through delusion, and they are not in the ameliorative professions. We need people who come more from a fine arts perspective. As long as you regard schizophrenia with disrespect, as a disease, and schizophrenics as patients, then the experience will remain largely frightening for us.
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I support you completely. We need to start seeing schizophrenia as a whole experience and not as a disease. Lets work together so we van create new ways of dealing with this experience.