u/neilnelly

This is a short post. I noticed that the west likes to use the term ‘radical Islam’ when talking about splintered militant Muslims. I find it somewhat intriguing that they would use that term, because it’s misleading. When you consider the pedophilia, murder, violence and narcissism in Islam, those militants are just more compliant Muslims than the so called ‘moderates.’

Remember, radical Islam is just Islam.

What are your thoughts, dear apostates?

Like a good number of people here, I am a survivor of long psychosis. I have been psychotic for about 28.5 years. I am about two years out from psychosis. It took me about 1.5 years post-psychosis to figure out that my psychosis started when I was 12 years old.

With my story aside, I want to share a recent interaction I had with a friend I knew since I was eight years into my psychotic episode. He was telling me all the good times we had together in the early years of our friendship. In all honesty, I was taken aback. I told him to the effect that what he said about me being amicable in the past is like saying that me getting beaten up by henchmen with steel pipes is worth romanticizing because the lighting ambiance is just right.

Please don’t romanticize positive experiences from your psychosis. They were moments of great suffering, at the very core. Psychosis is severe suffering throughout.

Stay strong, my friends.

I hope I did not come across as pushy.