Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:30 am
I didn’t see that these things are your profession actually.
I’ve had pretty extreme cases of both psychosis and addiction, so I can get defensive about them at times.
My psychosis involved paranoia, thinking I was a prophet, ripping phone / electrical wires out of the roof, seeing devil horns and halos. It was like the worst bad trip a person could have, but seemed to never end. While I wasn’t as out of touch with reality in addiction, I was definitely out of touch with humanity. And my addiction was much more destructive, even though I appeared sicker in my psychosis. There are some huge parallels, but subjectively they felt very different.
