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9:57pm April 29, 2014

With regard to the psychosis not being discussed here often…

…I feel a little the same about delirium.  I know it’s not the same, because delirium is considered a purely physical condition that goes away (eventually, sort of, usually) when the physical cause goes away.  So it’s considered in some ways more ‘acceptable’ to have than psychosis is.

But I had a lot of experiences akin to psychosis that I sometimes feel like I can’t talk about at all – delusions, auditory hallucinations, etc.  (In fact at one point, if it weren’t for the fact that I had pneumonia and that was obviously the cause, it was very akin to what schizophrenia is supposed to be like, right down to hearing voices discussing my every move with each other and humiliating and mocking me.)  Because I’m so afraid how people will respond to those experiences in general.  They feel like something outside of what is supposed to exist.  That’s one reason I made my comic.  I go between wanting to discuss it, and fearing to discuss it.

The delirium tag has pretty much nothing to do with delirium, also.