​The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of psychosis. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.

Find out more about the symptoms, causes and treatments of psychosis from Mind, Rethink Mental Illness and the NHS.

Academic life and mental illness is not a smooth ride but it can be done

May 15, 2013

Kate, a lecturer at GoldsmithsI'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?

Psychosis: how my family helped me

April 25, 2013

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.

It was 1998 and I was 24 at the time. I was in the middle of teacher training, doing my Secondary PGCE. Reading the accounts below, I can see how my breakdown was so difficult for all of us. In my view, it was about me reframing myself due to chemical imbalance, the challenge of family expectations and finding and valuing my ‘self’.

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