Why I’m Starting This Blog

I’ve wanted to start this blog for a long time.

There are many hats that I wear and things that I carry. As an emerging researcher, psychiatric survivor, someone who has moved through systems that claimed to be care and were not. I’ve sat in classrooms, policy meetings, and clinical rounds where people like me were talked about not with. I have watched the same tired narratives recycled over and over again. Narratives about “compliance,” “lack of insight,” “the burden of care,” etc. The list goes on.

This blog is a refusal.

But also, it’s a reaching toward something different.

I want a space where I can think out loud, tell stories, and challenge the frames that reduce our lived to diagnoses and deficits. A space to share ideas that don’t fit nearly into academic journals or policy briefs. A place for reflection, resistance, and repair.

Some posts will be personal. Some will be critical or policy oriented. Some will be creative (fragments, poems, field notes from my experience of madness). I will write about psychosis, peer support, coersion, extreme states, lived experience research, and what it means to fight for systems we don’t always believe in.

I’m not writing from outside. I’m writing through. Through complexity, through pain, and through hope.

If you’re here, I hope it is because you’re curious. Or perhaps confused, angry, grieving, surviving or trying to build something better. Welcome, this is for you.