Read the full article here: https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/how-i-work-when-psychosis-is-actually-precision-5840d20a4a8d People often assume that those experiencing psychosis lack insight. But in my experience, it’s often the opposite. Many of the people I’ve worked with — and many I’ve met on locked wards — are highly attuned. They’re noticing subtle dynamics, sensing emotional shifts, tracking meaning the rest of the room can’t hold. The system reads this as delusion. I re

Read the full article here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/it-wasnt-psychosis-it-was-initiation?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true What if what we call psychosis is sometimes a conversation with the universe? Not a breakdown, but a breakthrough. Not confusion, but clarity that the system can’t hold. I’ve written a new Substack piece about the experience of spiritual awakening inside a psychiatric framework — and what happens when yo

Read the full article here: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/when-care-becomes-control?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true We are taught to see care as an unquestionable good. If someone is worried about us, involved in our lives, or seeking help on our behalf, we are encouraged to assume good intentions and be grateful for the attention. But there are situations where care quietly crosses a line. Not into obvious harm. Not into cruelt

Find out more in my Substack articale: https://open.substack.com/pub/lucywishart/p/the-problem-with-professionalising?r=71cs29&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true Lived experience is increasingly welcomed into research, service design, and healthcare training. People are invited in as Experts by Experience, and this is often framed as progress. But professionalising lived experience doesn’t dismantle the injustice that made it necessary in the first place

Read more on Medium: https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/they-made-the-lampard-inquiry-inaccessible-and-that-matters-fc998553cb38 The Lampard Inquiry is public and serious. It exists because of widespread concern about deaths in mental health care. And yet, for many people, it’s inaccessible. Not because it’s too complex to understand, but because it isn’t written for them. Dense institutional language, legal framing, and clinical shorthand place the truth at a distance from tho

Read the full article on Medium https://medium.com/@lucywishart1/when-the-system-condemns-closeness-d79132f8f765 During one of my hospital admissions, another patient and I — both adult women — held hands for comfort. It wasn’t romantic or secretive. It was a human response to fear and isolation. Later, we were accused of having an “inappropriate relationship.” What was being named as inappropriate wasn’t harm. It was closeness. Mental health systems often equate safety with