PS from Chris
Hello Ashley,
Have just found time to visit your blog again, and read your answer so see I have just echoed the same points albeit less succinctly!
I am wanting to learn more and understand better, as someone 'living alongside'.
While not physical harm exactly, it seems to me a very cruel and disabling effect on someone caught up in the intrusive grips of active psychosis must surely be the disruption of 'life as they know it' and where they are at. (often such crucial stages,college,career,relationships, family, job...)
Presumably while experiencing frequent hallucinations the usual reassuring stabilising day to day experience,time tracking,'memory laying' and new learning would all be suspended or falsely represented, like a daytime nightmare to negotiate..... Huge courage and effort must be required, whatever else it takeson the road to recovery!!
I often feel it here on this site .....
Hope many visit your blog.Ashley. It is very special, as you must be!
Chris UK