I learned that one can get psychosis from trauma. Say a nasty divorce that ended badly. (Do divorces ever end goodly? Don’t answer that.) I had a mental break in 2020, the begging of it after I went through a bad divorce. Well I wonder if I ended up going through that break earlier when the divorce was going on in 2019. Yeah that’s possible. Divorce was a very traumatic experience to say the least. Luckily I had someone with me who could see what was going on and helped me get the help I sorely needed. Good ol’ Google AI says this: Trauma is a well-documented risk factor and trigger for psychosis, including brief psychotic disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with psychotic features. Traumatic events can alter the brain’s stress response, causing an overload that significantly increases the likelihood of developing distressing hallucinations or delusions. If that’s the case? Then yeah, I had that happen to me. The only problem is that the psychosis didn’t go away. No ...
Another Life Jun 29, 2019 It would be nice to be able to have some kind of concrete understanding of everything. Well, maybe not everything. That could cause problems. Life comes and goes and here we are waiting for something to happen. Whatever takes place will take place. There’s nothing you can do about it. Sometimes you just want to know you’re doing okay. That doesn’t mean you’ll ever have such an answer like that? But it would be nice to know. That’s all I’m saying.