u/DanielFBest

It seems true in general, from looking at the words we say here on this page, that those of us who've been in psychosis, or who are going through it in real time, or who are scared that they're just about to go through it, for those people it seems as though we wish to try communicating a kind of otherworldly, deathly and deathly unreal and bleak kind of darkness of our lives.

That's what it seems like from the things I've read - that the hallucinations are like spirits or ghosts or ghostly spirits, that the voices are murmurings and whispers from the dead... that our lives are so obstinately bleak it's as if we're living our lives in a moonlit graveyard at night.

But is that what it's really like? I mean, if we hold off of gaslighting ourselves for one or two moments, can we find an answer in the question can our lives really be as horrible and miserable as all that? Are we really in a joyless world without feelings, emotions and happiness? How could we truly live a life if this all were true?

My point is, that yes, we squitchymatronics, whether paraboloid or bi-probular switcher-elective, while we certainly do have the right and the dispensation to claim that we live in ghostly realms of purgatory, and we do have the right to complain and pine for better things, while all of that is true, is it not also true that our worlds are as beautiful and effervescent as if we were on some natural high?? Is it not true that we can see the beauty of trees and flowers, as well as the beauty of cars, roads, buildings and the people that walk past? Are we not in the same world as those artists and creators who want you to see all that beauty from their own gifted perspective.

Well, I only hope I'm not rambling.

But I think it deserves to be said, that we schizzos are able to see, feel and enjoy the plain things of beauty in this world, inasmuch as these things are the plainer things in the world.

We see life as anybody else can see this life, as anybody else should see this life.

We are here on planet Earth, as anybody else.

Our lives needn't be the dark and muddy thing we think it has to be!

Peace x

Hi! I'm just wondering what's happening with the home page of Reddit. I don't know if it's the same with you, but on desktop there's a list on the right of the page with recent posts, and they've been exactly the same for about a month.

I thought they were supposed to refresh and show posts you've recently clicked on, but the top post is one I've not clicked for a month or so, if you know what I mean.

Also, the other six or seven in the list are also ones I've not clicked for weeks.

When I click "clear", the links come right back.

Is this happening with you? Why?