Giving People the Help We Need

A lot of times when people go psychotic, even those closest to them, do not recognize that something is very wrong.

I think this is because psychosis lingers in that space between the very material world and genius. Psychotic people mutter the strangest things which can sound like either profound truths, or like they are channeling something very high, whereas in truth, they are quite literally losing their minds.

Really smart people or people experimenting with yoga or meditation can go psychotic, if they’ve experienced tremendous loss or sorrow, or if they are very very stressed out, or if they are drinking too much and/or doing drugs. Some people go psychotic, because I guess, they have a genetic disposition for it.

But always, when someone goes psychotic, their finely tuned brain gets screwed up in a very deep and profound way.

You can go psychotic and hurt no one but yourself. Like thinking you can fly and taking a dive off a building or throwing all your belongings in the trash, stripping off your clothes, and taking a naked walk down a highway. Or you can kill yourself because at that moment you are convinced it is the only and the right thing to do.

Or you can go psychotic and think you are the joker from Batman, or that you need to defend “the world” and walk into a mall and start shooting people.

But psychosis, once you’ve seen it, once or maybe twice, is recognizable. It is. You can see it in people’s eyes. You can hear it in what they are saying. There are signs and people don’t flip like a switch. It is a downward slope before something very tragic happens.

I hope somebody with a platform starts to educate the public more on this. Somebody on the news, hopefully. You know. You can call the cops on people if you think they are a threat to themselves or someone else. They can be psychiatrically evaluated. You can do it on your friends or your family members. You should. They can get medicated until they come out of it. You can save them, you can save yourself, and you can save innocent people, who have nothing to do with whatever craziness is going through the psychotic person’s mind. It is very very sad. I am so sorry for everyone.