What does being psychic and being psychotic have in common? Both involve seeing and hearing phenomena that no one else is experiencing. So how do you know when you have a serious mental health problem vs. simply being psychic? Goodness knows I had absolutely no clue what was happening to me when I was shockingly introduced to the World of My Psychic Abilities at the age of 13.
I write about this today because I grew up with a grandma who eventually suffered severe psychosis. It scared the crap out of me, and I swore up one side and down the other that I would do anything and everything to never be like her. There were barely any meds available to manage the condition, and she wouldn’t have taken them anyway.
As my intuition slowly but surely evolved on its merry own time in my teens and 20’s, I never worried that I was like grandma. I didn’t think I was receiving omens from a knickknack by the front door, I had no voice telling me to kill people, and my premonitions showed up randomly. I didn’t have periods of time where it was nonstop, then it quit, like grandma’s psychosis did. She was extremely paranoid and pissed when she was psychotic, and I never, ever felt anything remotely similar. I write this today due to the sheer volume of people who have over the years shared with me they were scared they were developing a severe mental illness.
My social work job was evaluating people seeking psychiatric services at a mental health hospital. I interviewed them, diagnosed their symptoms, then assigned appropriate level of treatment and connected them with the necessary service.
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