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Sarah  Hawkins (she/her)'s avatar

The whole community has to be better educated about how to handle severe mental illness with more confidence and more compassion. If there was less stigma around psychosis and better outcomes, then I think people would be more inclined to stay on their meds and talk more openly about their symptoms and behaviours to watch out for with friends and family and eventually colleagues and managers. Things are better than they were but there is still so much more to do to rationalise this illness in the mind of the general public. This will then lead to quicker recoveries. People in recovery will be able to educate others about what this illness feels like, eventually creating a virtuous circle of better understanding and better care. 🙏

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Janice Airhart's avatar

Thanks for sharing your story. My mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1953 and died in an institution in 1966. I've been trying to understand since then who she might have been aside from her illness. It was a different time and "treatment" was mostly institutionalization, because there were few tools at the time. Your story is important.

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