{"id":326625,"date":"2025-12-05T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326625\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:05:07","slug":"psychosis-therapy-helped-stop-me-feeling-powerless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326625\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Psychosis therapy helped stop me feeling powerless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Chris Taylor, clinical psychologist and chief investigator on the trial, said: &#8220;We know that imagery has a more powerful impact on emotions and how we feel than just words alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Imagine you&#8217;re somebody who&#8217;s suspicious with paranoia and you have a fear that someone&#8217;s going to break into your flat and attack you and hurt you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you get a visual mental image of that as well, it makes you feel more anxious, more worried, worsens your paranoia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he hoped a full clinical trial would take place into the cost and clinical effectiveness of the treatment, and lead to it being used widely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Brandwood-Spencer said the therapy helped him separate the images from the &#8220;menacing feelings of threat&#8221; they caused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the most difficult aspects was the powerlessness and the idea that what was happening to me was permanent and inescapable,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;IMAPS helped me to address this, by changing this narrative of powerlessness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He now works in the substance use and mental health sectors, where he said he was &#8220;able to give people what I needed when it all began&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Chris Taylor, clinical psychologist and chief investigator on the trial, said: &#8220;We know that imagery has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-326625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}