Name: Katie Mottram - CRAZYWISE Stories of Lived Experience
Uploaded: 2026-02-28T14:17:41.000Z
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I was led to spiritism because of my personal experience, which could have been described as a first step inside.

Psychosis happened during meditation and I'd worked in the mental health field for 15 years and the experience I had was channeling a message from spirit which I'd never experienced before, never really believed could happen, had pushed that from my kind of frame of reference because my mum had had psychosis when I was growing up, had made two very serious suicide attempts when I was a child, had been hospitalised.

She was convinced that it was a spiritual experience, but

was disbelieved and I didn't want to go that same way.

I decided to go and find an alternative conceptual framework and I found it here.

Spiritism brings in all of my experiences and all of the past couple of years of learning, I found along my spiritual journey has kind of come together and been very, very validated here.

I've just written my whole life experience in a book called Mend the Gap.

And when I experienced my spiritual awakening, which I now know to be a spiritual awakening, I was given the message that I am a vehicle to bring a new conceptual framework around spiritual crisis into the Western psychiatry framework, for it to be normalised, for us to be acknowledged as natural emotional beings rather than.

We've spent so long being pathologized and it's been.

It's become very medicated, the system over, you know, we're seen as biomechanical human beings, which.

And my book kind of documents the journey through my extreme trauma and trying to repress my emotions, to having them come bubbling up in every possible way, my anger coming out, all of the anger I felt around my mum's experience, feeling abandoned, feeling like I wasn't loved because my mum tried to commit suicide when I was born and again when I was 17 and I hated myself, which then culminated in my own very serious suicide attempt six years ago.

And so many times this week I've thought, wow, I'm in Brazil with Crazy Wise, with Emma Bragdon, working on my journey, getting information to take back into the mental health world within the uk.

And six years ago, I was laying on the side of a road, having taken a huge overdose because I felt like I had nothing to offer the world.