They’ll say it’s a crisis. That the system is under strain. That more staff, more funding, more strategies might fix it. But those of us who’ve lived it? We feel something deeper. This isn’t breakdown. It’s unravelling. The current model doesn’t need tweaking — it’s becoming energetically unsustainable. Because it was never built to hold what’s actually happening now: awakening, grief, aliveness, rage, transformation. We’re not in crisis. We’re in emergence. And we’re not ask

Read the full article @ Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/acute-normality-response?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lucywishart1?igsh=aGJwdHV5ZWhmZmU%3D&utm_source=qr The Side Effect No One Names After I was discharged from psychiatric hospital, I didn’t expect to feel so… monitored. Not by others — by myself. I was well. I was healing. But somewhere inside, I was also constantl

There’s something the mental health system isn’t prepared for: When the person sitting across from you — the one in the client chair — stops performing distress and starts speaking from clarity. Not collapse. Not chaos. Just truth. Spiritual. Grounded. Unmistakable. And suddenly, the frame can’t hold. Because this isn’t a rupture. It’s a realignment. And no amount of supervision can undo the impact of being seen — fully, lovingly, and without distortion — by someone the syste