ABSTRACT
This chapter touches upon three individuals who suffered psychotic breakdowns and underwent hospitalizations with medication regimes. Two discovered transformational possibilities in severed and shattered states. The third was helped to cope with a semi-reduced lifestyle compared to what he once envisioned but found creative and relational satisfaction. All became hospital free and two medication free. The author brings together common themes, images, and ideas growing out of raw experience of breakdown, with awareness that selections are partial and suggestive.
