Is psychosis a natural process of psychological growth. Of bringing forth unconscious fears and desires in order to become whole.
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Interesting.
Never heard it put like that before. I think on some level there is validity to that statement.
"in order to become whole"
I feel this affliction has humbled me and made me a better person than I was before.
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Its a medical disease requiring meds, not psychological. Its not a growth, its the opposite.
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“Its not a growth, its the opposite.”
But sometimes you have to take a few steps backwards in order to continue going forward.
I think this is what @anon39239665 was alluding to.
Adversity can create strength of character.
Not in my case, psychosis is the opposite of growth at least in my case. Its preventing me from growing and realizing my dreams.
i believe there is a greater purpose to why i have struggled with psychosis
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It can be and it can not be.
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I think in some ways yes and in some ways no. I do think that if it wasn’t for my experience with psychosis, I would not be half as kind as I am today. But I also think it is not a necessary part of growth and development. It is possible to learn and grow and be complete without ever experiencing psychosis. And some people with psychosis do not learn or grow from it. So really, it is all about how your personal experience is, and whether you use it to make yourself better.
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I don’t think so. I’d say it humbled me but it caused slowed growth for me.
If I didn’t have psychosis that’s one less difficulty to deal with in life.
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Psychosis is obviously a malfunction in our brains. For me it might have been a collision of ideas and life perspectives.
I took first year of psychology study in university which changed the way I viewed myself and others. It crashed with many beliefs that I had before I studied. This getting under the skin of people might have been too much for me, or maybe it was they way I interpited it.
I didn’t have my first psychosis before a few years later, but I think studying psychology might have been the trigger. It simply collided with the worldview I had before studying and my mind struggled to adapt to my new way of viewing the world and people.
I’m going to agree with Aziz here. It’s a debilitating disease. While voluntarily suffering as if “taking responsibility” does helps you to grow in some way. Psychosis seems like it’s something else entirely.
I could have been an army general in my life if not for psychosis and me getting diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Clearly Psychosis did not helped me to grow in any way, but the opposite has happened. I got sent down to depths of the hell. So in my case Psychosis is the opposite of growth.
I could be wrong about other people.
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I have growed in the sense of becoming more humble. I am more kind than I was before and less self-centered. Some of it might simply be because of wisdom of age, but I at least attribute it partially to having a debiltating disease, as opposed to before I got ill I thought I would just cruise through life.
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It has definitely done that for me
. Bring some stuff to the surface and helped me form a better relationship with my faith
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