Tag: psychiatry and spirituality

The psychotic and the mystic swim in the same water. But why do some swim, and some drown?

You can’t go back to mundane ways of seeing the world after very dark things happen. Trauma cracks open a hole in our lives and in our minds, throwing us into the zone where we face the big spiritual questions. Bad ideas can get in when things open up like that. But it’s also possible that something new and positive can get in.