Key points

Psychosis doesn’t end your future: Recovery or stable management is possible for many.

Stigma and silence distort the story, causing more harm than psychotic symptoms themselves.

Thriving after psychosis is real and common, and my story is one example.

For most people, the word psychosis evokes images of permanent decline. A person with lived experience is imagined as someone whose future has been irreversibly damaged, whose mind can never be trusted again, and whose life will shrink to something small, unsteady, and disconnected. We are taught to believe that a psychotic episode destroys a person’s capacity to think clearly, work meaningfully, contribute to society, love deeply, or live fully.

But that narrative is at best incomplete — and at its worst simply untrue.

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