I spoke at NAMI meeting

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I went to a NAMI meeting tonight and my story came out. The guest speaker knew who I was and asked me to introduce myself — as the author of Beyond Meds. The subject of the meeting was psych drug withdrawal. Telling my story in a NAMI gathering was a rather intense and scary thing.

November 13, 2014 0

Madness, Possession and Transformation: A Personal Narrative of Healing

By Jon Keyes

In the early 90′s, I went through a profound experience of psychosis, a complete and radical change of my consciousness from a state of relatively normal perception and comprehension to a state of deeply unsettling confusion, anxiety with a persistent altered mind frame. Thoughts were easily jumbled. I alternated between periods of frenetic excitability and then spiraled into deep despair and hopelessness. Social interactions could often be torturous to the point where isolation often felt like a good answer. I felt like I was cracking, coming apart. On a deeper level, I believed something had happened to me, changed me; that something possessed me. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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