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

Read more on Medium: https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/they-called-it-risk-i-called-it-accuracy-d2553b7eb6d9 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucywishart1?igsh=aGJwdHV5ZWhmZmU%3D&utm_source=qr I wasn’t in crisis. I was in clarity. And that — in certain environments — is enough to make you a threat. They didn’t say it out loud. They just assessed. Monitored. Reframed. They whispered things like “complex,” “intense,” “risk.” But I knew what was happening. They weren’t reacti

Read at Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/holy-enough-to-be-a-problem?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucywishart1?igsh=aGJwdHV5ZWhmZmU%3D&utm_source=qr What happens when a spiritually clear, coherent person enters a system built to manage crisis? A short reflection on presence, power, and being too whole to fit. They didn’t know what to do with me. Not because I was chaotic — but becau

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