Tag Archives: Hallucinations

Black bags in the night

Posted on August 14, 2015 by purplepersuasion

I haven’t posted in a while. Somehow I find it very hard to blog when I’m doing well, and in fact I have been doing very well since returning from holiday. Four or five weeks of stability! Until this week. … Continue reading →

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In two minds

Posted on May 30, 2015 by purplepersuasion

So apparently I am having to live with a dual reality. One is about logic, “facts” and what I “know” to be true (or more accurately what I previously knew to be true). The other is a different sort of … Continue reading →

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When you’re strange

Posted on May 19, 2015 by purplepersuasion

I feel strange. I don’t think I’ve been acting particularly oddly so it’s probably not noticeable to most people, but I’ve been having strange experiences that make me feel a stranger to myself. After the Great Banana Skin Episode I … Continue reading →

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The dopamine delusion: why I think there’s more to it than brain chemistry

Posted on January 7, 2014 by purplepersuasion

So, a few months ago I was sitting in my psychiatrist’s office, telling him about THEM. I was crying a bit, although not as much at the urgent GP appointment two days previously. That was before I’d put my antipsychotics … Continue reading →

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Psychotic: what’s in a name?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by purplepersuasion

On BBC1’s One Show Alex Jones recently aired a 2009 quote from Danny Boyle. To be a film-maker, according to Boyle, “you have to be psychotic in your desire to do something.” Around the same time, Caitlin Moran tweeted about … Continue reading →

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