Psychology Today | 20.08.2026 06:40
Finding community among peers is just as important for me as it is for others, regardless of where I am in my cognitive and emotional recovery. Even for someone like me, who leads support groups, does presentations on life after psychosis topics based on my blogs with Psychology Today and Teva Pharmaceuticals, and speaks in front of crowds, it is hard even for me to meet people with a diagnosis like mine or similar. I love meeting peers because it breaks the chains of stigma and allows us to feel normal and less ashamed of our experiences. I realized even during advanced recovery, when starting to facilitate a support group, that I still had healing to do that was obtainable only through sharing my experiences with peers and hearing stories similar to mine.
