Autistic people and psychosis, David Gray-Hammond with Chloe: Aucademy in discussion

Originally aired on Aucademy: Saturday 7th November 2020, 20:00 GMT/London; 13:00 PDT:
Autistic people and psychosis, David Gray-Hammond with Chloe: Aucademy in discussion
Chloe will be chatting to David Gray-Hammond about being Autistic and experiencing psychosis (or voice hearing, or hallucinating).
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Potential TRIGGER WARNINGS: potential strong language, disclosure of cPTSD/PTSD, suicide, addiction to substances, paranoid delusions, voice hearing
Guest speaker:
David Gray-Hammond is an Autistic addiction and mental health advocate from the South East of England. He has worked in substance misuse consultancy in his home city of Brighton since 2016, and has worked with commissioners to make sure that neurodivergent people are represented when services are commissioned and treatment policy is written. He writes on the topics of autism, addiction, and mental health, and is also Chief Operating Officer of NeuroClastic, Inc.
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[@pugninja7037]

Lovely watch x. More compassion and understanding from society x

[@lindadunn8787]

Interesting topic. Thank you for putting this out for us. 🎉

[@LaVeci]

Thank you for this. I love that you also want to throw the DSM in the bin.

[@aucademy6195]

You are so welcome!

[@CoreLabb]

Thank you so much for providing thorough details of the experience. Most people just use technical terms without giving exact examples. So thank you again. Well said.

[@aucademy6195]

Glad it was helpful!

[@estherq763]

Thank you for sharing

[@jackd.rifter3299]

I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 5 years ago and at that time the people that diagnosed me said I have some strong autistic traits and wanted me to look into that, I ended up going through a lot and wasn't able to process that possibility. I've been hallucinating since kindergarten.

[@aucademy6195]

Hi Jack, this might of use aucademy.co.uk/starting-your-autistic-discovery-journey-a-guide/ Thank you so much for sharing ❤

[@starqueen5141]

Thank you for this podcast, could you drop the Griffith paper 2019 into a link please

[@aucademy6195]

The Vulnerability Experiences Quotient (VEQ): A Study of Vulnerability, Mental Health and Life Satisfaction in Autistic Adults: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2162 ❤

[@piksibelle]

I have experience of psychosis poss asd but not diagnosed yet , do you feel in relation to the delisions coming for you from a place of fear that an over anxious over stressed autisti c mind will process unconscious material visually so its experienced viscerally rather than as a neurotypical person who would have unconcious material remain unconcious - but in people who are autistic the subconscious mind brings up the unconcious material through a waking conscious mind . You have experienced similar delusions to me and voice hearing etc - maybe our brains create a scenario that makes our irrational thoughts plausible . If that makes sense . Im still recovering after the third pyschosis breakdown , all of which have followed significant traumatic or traumatising experiences or periods in my life . Or long term periods of supressing trauma or it not being recognised by others - also cptsd which had gone untreated and undiagnosed for 2 decades . Flash backs to psychotic episodes also means its difficult to discern if its a relapse of the psychosis or a flashback to the trauma of the psychotic delusions and hallucinations .

[@emergentdivergence]

Hello, I'm David from the video. This is quite similar to my experience. I would definitely agree that my psychosis is my brain trying to make sense of irrational things. In particular, trying to make connections between repeated and seemingly unconnected traumas. I am very much of the opinion that my psychosis is a manifestation of my deepest fears and traumas.

[@annaynely]

The more your environment criticized you & the less understanding you got from your environment the worse it got. It is important to radically change environment something some experience in the person's life makes it worse.

[@piksibelle]

Theres actually a higher correlation of mh disorders in the autistic community and a higher insidence of psychosis depression and anxiety than those without autism including incidence of schizophrenia. The percentages are higher than the nt population . Significantly higher .