Mental health
fromPsychology Today
6 days agoThe Mental Illness Recovery Paradox
Shame often intensifies after mental health symptoms improve, quietly impeding recovery and persisting as a common, predictable aftermath of a mental health crisis.
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.