Dealing with Psychosis Stigma

I completely understand!! I experience a lot of odd treatment from people once they find out I have psychosis. They tend to think I’m dangerous somehow.. 😥

YES! It’s awful. You start talking about it and you lose credibility because, “Oh they’re just being paranoid because they’re sick.” People look at us through this lens that is created by a general lack of understanding. And no one understands because they don’t know what it’s like first hand, instead they’ve already created a narrative about our condition. The cruel irony is that, having those stigmatized underlying assumptions about psychosis is slightly paranoid in itself.