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How compassion may help me

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  • Mark Ellerby

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I have experienced psychosis for 20 years. The main symptoms are voices and delusions which interact and reinforce each other. I have written a lot about my illness over the years in a series of autobiograhical books called The Stages of Schizophrenia (Chipmunkapublishing 2007). I have had numerous medications including risperidone and clozapine as well as two years of cognitive behavioural therapy. In 2005 I relapsed and having tried many things already it was decided by my CPN to refer me to a more psychological approach and I quickly was nominated to meet a psychologist at my local (mental) hospital. I was told by the psychologist that I would be referred to group work entitled compassion-focused therapy. I wondered what that meant. It was explained that by developing compassion we can soothe the fear caused by schizophrenia. This has been a lengthy and ongoing process as I shall now describe.

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  • Mark Ellerby, 2014. "How compassion may help me," Psychosis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(3), pages 266-270, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsyxx:v:6:y:2014:i:3:p:266-270
    DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2013.816338
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