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Neuroplasticity III: Trusting Myself after Psychosis & Jail
It became clear that trusting myself had to come from within. This was not something that someone else could give me. -
The Voices that Caused Me to Lose Everything
"There was some part of my brain that knew something was off, but I still had no idea it was voices I was hearing." -
Neuroplasticity II: Recovery After Jail
"I focused on work, love, play and spirituality as the required elements for recovery." -
Neuroplasticity: How I Survived Psychosis and Jail
"Neuroplasticity, my brain’s potential to adapt to change, proved to be crucial to both surviving incarceration and recovering from psychosis." -
A Plea for Compassion as Someone Who Was Arrested During Psychosis
To bring about meaningful change, the system itself has to be restructured and it starts, quite plainly, with having compassion. -
What Kept Me Going After My Episode
"I get up every morning to finish my new degree because I hope I can help people who are in crisis with words, not tasers. I help people with mental illness because I hope I can be that voice of educated experience that I never had after my first manic episode." -
Early Psychosis Programs Are Changing Lives—But What if You Can’t Find One?
Until early-psychosis CSC programs are available in every community, NAMI wants young people and their families to know what to do while we push for them to exist everywhere. We can’t afford to wait. -
Outreach and Engagement for Early Psychosis
A first episode of psychosis can be scary and isolating. Treatment can have little appeal and feel highly stigmatizing. Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy is an evidence-based approach that skirts these (and many other) common challenges of working with young adults who have psychosis. -
Time is Ticking on Early Psychosis
Similar to cancer, schizophrenia begins in stages (with psychosis developing early), and similar to cancer, providing care at the earliest possible stage produces the best results. But with psychosis, many people don’t seek help right away.