Is certainty a type of psychosis?

This week we’re joined by a bonafide listener! Elliott Chadwick emailed us a story about a young man on anti-psychotic meds who turned out not to be psychotic. We had to know more, so we invited him on the show.

Mal also tells us about her brother, and the strange and beautiful world he inhabits, and we talk about how to tell the difference between numinous experiences and psychotic episodes.

It’s a doozy.

Elliott is a psychiatric nurse practitioner turned bodyworker, and co-host of The Glimmerance — a show about creativity and spirituality against the materialist overculture

What do most people think isn’t real, but Elliott does? “Not all hallucinations are psychiatric symptoms”

Nearly an atheist a few years ago

The dark figure in the young man’s room

“Have you ever tried to ask this guy to go away?”

What antipsychotics meds do to a brain that isn’t psychotic

Trauma, fight-or-flight, and the brain filling in the corners

“Magical thinking”

What’s the difference between people like Robin Lassiter and Kelly Chase and psych patients?