Living with psychosis: blogs and stories

I'm a university lecturer at Goldsmiths and during Mental Health Awareness week I'm sitting on a staff/student panel, an event organised by our Disability Team, discussing the challenges of mental health issues and university life. The reasons I feel able to contribute to this?

For most of my life I’ve been dealt with a cycle of anxiety, depression and psychosis that has been (at times) crippling, and (for the most part) misunderstood by those around me.

I asked four members of my family to write a paragraph or so about how they helped me when I was experiencing an episode which hospitalised me for at least 2 months.

Psychosis is described as 'involving a "loss of contact with reality". It occurs in a number of different mental health conditions, including the condition I have, Bipolar type 1.