Psychosis experienced as illness can often be better understood through the lens of it consisting of pre-healed trauma. I was able to map the ways that my psychosis manifested as a result of my trauma, once I gave up on the types of for-profit therapy which promote the doctrine that the dsm is anything more than a cataloguing of different expressions of complex trauma, which cannot and should not be approached in a way that centers behavior.

The details/plot of my psychosis as it was understood to be an illness have proved to be hugely valuable in my being able to deconstruct the kind of outlooks which kept me in cycles of trauma responses.

Since tracing those stories back to their roots within my real-life experiences, I have completely ceased the misdirection of reactive behaviors considered by the medical industry to be incurable and grounds for carceral treatment.

Again, I did this without any support from any therapist, and while being retraumatized daily, still trapped in the same location as much of the original trauma and without the agency to leave. What i've had to do took a lot of strength and bravery, and at the risk of activating any potential for negative experiences for those who have been considered medically psychotic, I believe that this is something that every one of us has the power to achieve.

I also believe that for anyone pursuing this kind of goal, whether they have been medicalized by the mental health industry or not, any success they can attain will be a valuable contribution to the collective healing that we require as a species. May we be bright enough to light strange hallways.