Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative
Validating Psychosis: The Missing Narrative
https://www.madinamerica.com/2020/08/validating-psychosis-missing-narrative/
August 13, 2020
‘If you bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will destroy you.”
—The Gnostic Gospels
“Alarm bells rang out in my head and my body and I began to recontextualize my mental storms. I can’t blame myself for the rain, for the downpour— it’s just happening— but I DO need to decide how I interact with it. And that is my choice. The trauma is not my fault, but healing it is MY responsibility.
The clear droplets of rain are clinging to my window-screen, slowly slinking down the pane. In faded green marker there is written on the glass: WHATEVER IT IS, YOU CAN DO IT. We can’t see the underground roots that the rain is nourishing. Who are we to say that they aren’t there? And who are we to assume what can or can’t grow up from the vital darkness of that fertile place?”