A growing body of research shows connections between enduring and surviving early adverse relationships and being told,  in adulthood that we are “psychotic”.

We will likely be told we have “lost touch with reality”, whatever that means, when the truth is it’s really not hard to understand: we are struggling to feel safe in the world.

We will likely be told we need be more resilient when we have likely already shown more resilience than anyone who says that to us.

We survived, now we struggle to survive the rest of our lives and give ourselves opportunities  in which we can learn how to live.

Poster: easy print version [.pdf]

• Pathways from surviving adverse early experiences to being deemed psychotic in adulthood.pdf

Works great in b&w too.

References

• Child Maltreatment and Psychosis: A Return to a Genuinely Integrated Bio-Psycho-Social Model; Shevlin M. et al., 2007.  Am J Psychiatry 2007; 164:166-169
   http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/ajp.2007.164.1.166
• Parental separation, loss and psychosis in different ethnic groups: a case-control study. Morgan et al.
  studyhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/6702220_Parental_separation_loss_and_psychosis_in_different_ethnic_groups_A_case-control_study