'My brain snapped': Harry's sudden psychosis

All In The Mind

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Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Harry had been lucky. He'd never struggled with his mental health.

Then, when he was 18, seemingly out of nowhere — he had his first psychotic episode.

It was an abrupt change, with ripple effects across his family.

Today, the shock of experiencing psychosis, why you're most likely to get it when you're young, and how you can recognise the signs and support a loved one.

If you'd like to hear more about this topic, we have an episode called A musician processes her bipolar diagnosis.

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0:00.0	ABC Listen, Podcasts, Radio, News, Music and more.
0:07.6	How does a person go from totally healthy, no history of mental illness, young and fit,
0:13.5	to all of a sudden, one day, psychotic?
0:16.9	I had never felt like that in my life, and I didn't know why.
0:20.3	So I rang up what any Greek person does as a young lad.
0:23.8	You ring up your mother and you say, I don't feel good.
0:26.2	Can you pick me up from work?
0:28.5	But even stranger, how is it that a person can eventually return to normal, so to speak,
0:34.1	with no ongoing changes to their mental health?
0:37.7	This is the story of one young man's sudden, completely unexpected experience of psychosis.
0:45.5	It's not a story you often hear because of how abrupt it happened and for no reason.
0:50.0	This is all in the mind.
0:51.7	I'm Sana Khadar.
0:52.7	Today, what it's like to experience psychosis for the first time and how to support a loved one through it.
1:05.6	I'll just get you to start by introducing yourself.
1:07.9	So your name, whatever else you want to say to introduce yourself,
1:17.0	what you do. Okay. My name is Harry, Harry Jordan. Don't be fooled by the Anglo-Saxon sounding name. It's Haralambosur than I need this. Wow. And I live in St. Georgia-Laura region,
1:23.9	but I don't go for the dragons. I go for the roosters. I'm 30 years old, which frightens me
1:29.2	every day, but that's okay. What did you just say in Greek? My name, Hara Lambos, Harry,
1:35.2	Jordanidis, Jordan. Wow, okay. I never knew that Harry Jordan could sound like that.
1:41.2	Well, yeah, it's my grandfather's name, So when he came across, it could not be pronounced.
1:46.1	And here we are.
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