Recovery from extreme states (aka: psychosis)

Whether you choose to see psychosis or other extreme states of consciousness as healing crisis of the psyche or you consider it spiritual emergency, hundreds of people find their way through them without meds or with meds only for a short time (usually coerced).

This is a collection of stories of people who have come through such episodes. Sometimes lasting months, other times lasting years. But they have all fully recovered.

This page will be continually added to as I find more information. I intend to add a book section soon.

This list is by no mean exhaustive.

Websites:

Books to help understand the process our minds go through while in extreme states:

THIS IS BY NO MEANS AND EXHAUSTIVE READING LIST

6 Responses
  1. 2009 February 17
    Ellen permalink

    Hi Gianna,

    I have never clicked on this recovery from psychosis tab before. You have gathered some very important resources. I have my work cut out for me reading it all.

    Good stuff, thanks.

  2. 2009 February 17
    giannakali permalink

    Yay Ellen!
    this is a relatively new page I’ve put together…I’m often bummed at how infrequent all my resources in the tabs are used…I can see how often pages are visited…and while the tabs get looked at often enough the vast amount of info collected on them don’t get looked at often enough…I don’t know how to make them more available…

    These tabs are the meat of my blog…the stuff that really counts…and is timeless.

  3. 2009 March 8
    Jeanne permalink

    Hi Gianna,
    I see that you have Steven Morgan’s story here. We have just hired him to be the director of our peer-run psychiatric survivor group, Another Way, here in Montpelier, VT.

    Thanks for gathering all this material and fostering connections that combat our isolation.

  4. 2009 March 8
    giannakali permalink

    Steven Morgan is an awesome guy…he will be wonderful to work with and I think you’re all very lucky to have him!! and I’m sure him, you. Say hello to him…

  5. 2009 July 7
    henry permalink

    How do I withdraw from 3mg of risperdal.

  6. 2009 July 7
    giannakali permalink

    Study the About page on this blog and buy some of the recommended books and then see what you think is right for you. Use the info you find there are a springboard to more research so that you can make the right decisions for yourself…

    a primer to withdrawal is here.

    but I recommend educating yourself much further than that before making a decision.

    withdrawing from Risperdal is potentially dangerous if you don’t do it right, so please take your time and see if it’s right for you.

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