Childhood trauma (CT) plays a significant role in the development and recovery from psychosis. A new study published in Schizophrenia Research reveals that individuals with a history of childhood trauma face a slower and more arduous recovery from first-episode psychosis (FEP). The study’s findings underscore the critical need for addressing childhood trauma in the treatment of psychosis.
This research, led by Kristin Fjelnseth Wold of Oslo University Hospital, underscores the importance of pre-psychosis functioning and timely intervention in improving recovery outcomes.
Forty-five percent of the participants reported experiencing childhood trauma, with emotional abuse and neglect being the most common. These individuals were found to have a higher likelihood of early treatment resistance, highlighting the need for trauma-informed approaches in psychosis care.
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Trauma is everything. History IS trauma. If there were no trauma there’d be no history because there would be no memory. Memory is proof of trauma, as is culture, as is history, the accretions of memory, and civilization is the disease that results. It is memory, or karma manifest.
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I never told them about the 11 suns, or the 11 doorways I go through before walking back into myself. I could count down 11days from today but I won’t record it in my brain otherwise it’ll create time again and then the truth might sail away.
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When I was work shopping, when I puked up a bulimic man….But now you dream up a psychotic, and the psychotic is puking up dreams.
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There are no known biological causes for any of the psychiatric disorders, nor are there any tests to provide independent objective data in support of any psychiatric diagnosis (Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry, http://www.cepuk.org). How is it possible that individuals with a history of trauma are diagnosed with ‘psychosis’ and ‘schizophrenia’? How can people be treated if their alleged diagnoses are not biological, and the typical ‘treatment’ for ‘psychosis’ and ‘schizophrenia’ is with neuroleptic medication (wrongly named antipsychotics) which causes severe physical, emotional, and cognitive side effects, chronic illness, irreversible brain damage, homicide, suicide, and early death (Whitaker, R, Gotzsche, P, Jackson, G)? How is this considered treatment?
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Well my first episode psychosis included prophecies that have come true. Does trauma cause an ability to see into the future? Why is this not being explored? I know I often mention that a colossal global tsunami flood is coming in the future, it being caused by meteor impacts, five small meteors, but this morning I feel its worth sharing more of what I sense. A tsunami is not a nice surfer dream wave of crisp clear water, instead it is like bulldozers or mountain mud slides, full of churning cars and shattered bits of houses, waves of floorboards and furniture and stores and bricks and chimneys and bodies. The aftermath leaves heaps of monumental debris. Maybe even toppled skyscrapers knocked akimbo like a domino trip. I might think I will make myself a cup of coffee but in the aftermath the water treatment buildings and water reservoirs will be defunct and so soon finding fresh water will be a task. The sewers will have been compromised, flushing the lavatory wont work. Taking a shower wont work. Electrical power plants will mean blackouts in districts and no heating. No washing machines. No charging up of cell phones unless theres a solar panel gadget. Fridges in food stores will go off. Tins of food will be looted. Transport will be hazardous. Internet outages. Battery operated radios may work. Valuables and archives will be hit by flooding. How will it be possible to find out if relatives are alright? Is there a plan to meet up somewhere after. Is there an organized visual communication such as rags
tied a certain way on landmarks that signify survival. If quitting meds was ever on a to do list it may be best to taper since some pharmacies may be shattered. Is there a tent? Is there camping equipment? Is there a medical first aid kit? Is there a waterproof bag of fav old family photographs? There may be mass evacuations. The not knowing where relatives are ensues. Having to fend for self becomes vital. Clashes between say looters and the military can impede progress on a journey. Is it possible to create a local community, a tribe of survivors? Can a system of bartering become a new local currency? Can seeds be planted everywhere for later on? Bodies may need burial on a local level. Order will replace chaos but in the interim just going with the flow and not dwelling on trauma will help. It is best to be detatched as if reality is just a mirage. As if its all just a passing dream. Care not to get infected by taited water or food will need learned. The covid pandemic in its first mystefied hours and days united all countries in a global unified focus. Massive flooding will feel similarly shocking, but humanity will overcome such travesty. Humanity will survive. The future has good in it. This is all just a reshuffle on the road to a better world.
I cannot tell when this specific prophecy will occur, it may be many years or decades to come. Therefore, it is best to act like it will never occur…but also take stock of it as a “possibility”. Life is for enjoyment. Door thoughts are not conducive to relaxing and calm. The ability to be calm is a wonderful talent. I believe the Hoover Dam will be exploded by factions in future and that will be a sign that I may be correct about this other hurdle. But I would also say that I am crazy and even though I did predict the covid event that doesnt mean the rest of my first psychosis knowingness is reliable. On the other hand, it is always useful to prepare for how delicate is the foundation upon which civilization cavorts.
Just know this…the future has good in it and so it is highly worthwhile sticking around to be glad of it.
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I don’t think you’re mad at all: I’ve become very psychic from going through trauma and consequently the non-ordinary psychological experiences they call psychosis. I emerged into a sanity that to me is much more sound then that of any psychiatrist, because their whole profession is based on dangerous delusion, pretence, and profitable lies. I feel also the destruction of Western society is an absolute inevitability, and ultimately, the only hope for life on Earth, but the idea of a big tsunami is an attractive one because it’s more environmentally friendly then nuclear bombs or the roasting of the Earth due to climate change. Hopefully just another big flood! Hopefully we’ll remember to put all the species on boats again.
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