Un-binding chronic psychosis

I have lived with psychotic illness (DSM-V diagnosis: schizophrenia) for many years. In my experience, the so-called ‘positive symptoms’ of hallucinations and delusions represent a disintegrating paradox: un-binding characterizes its psychosocial core. To the degree I am estranged from other people, I become bound to hearing voices that preserves the feeling of my existence. To the degree I encounter binding solidarity in interpersonal relation, I become un-bound from psychotic persistence and rebond with everyday reality and human sociality. Here I seek to elucidate why hearing voices might be significant for chronically psychotic individuals notwithstanding the voices’ often distressing contents. I explicate how to understand the deep personal needs underlying psychotic manifestations; and correspondingly what best treatment might help resolve the chronic circle of psychotic symptoms and psychosocial alienation.