New Year’s Eve has always been my favorite holiday—until 2018, when it became a dividing line between the person I was before my hospitalization and the one I was trying to become after. In Into the Fog of Psychosis: Part 2, I walk you through what comes next—the exhaustion of recovery, the identity crisis that follows psychosis, and the quiet war of trying to exist in a world that wasn’t built for people like me.

From job interviews that feel like performances to the infuriating reality of getting (and affording) the right medication, this episode is about what happens after the crisis, when the world expects you to be fine again. Because the truth is, recovery isn’t linear, it isn’t neat, and sometimes, just existing is the biggest battle of all.

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