How I Work: When Psychosis Is Actually Precision

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 read it as unintegrated sensitivity.

This is the core of how I work.

I don’t diagnose or pathologise.

I listen. I attune. I meet people in the field of what they’re actually experiencing — not what the file says.

And often, when someone labelled “psychotic” is given space to be met without fear, correction, or flattening, something extraordinary happens:

Their system begins to settle.

Their clarity starts to land.

And their so-called symptoms lose their charge.

I’ve written a new piece on Medium about this approach, sharing a scenario that shows what’s possible when we stop trying to fix — and start trusting what’s true beneath the surface.