Psychosis is just "loss of contact with reality" but is applied to extreme cases where violence and obsessive behaviour that affect a certain lifestyle is involved. The whole idea hangs on what reality is.
If you take purely physical reality, we were born naked in a gruesome and painful process called birth. But somehow, the life apparent in the new baby causes most mothers to smile and love and create a new reality surrounding the child called a family in all it's many cultural colours.
If you dwell on the blood, pain and danger involved in birth itself, it is perhaps more real than the psychosis of our desire for family security and joy. At the moment the baby appears in the world outside the womb, the actual physical reality is negative. Yet our desire for life in the baby and his/her potential causes many to dream and create.
Since it hasn't happened yet, is the family or joy we feel seeing the baby unreal? If you look at the blood and the pain, it is a kind of psychosis.
The point of looking at birth this way is not to pour cold water or destroy the joy of seeing new life but I just want to say, we can create reality that will happen. The choice of how we deal with the new life that occurs everyday is just like the moment of birth in a new baby.
Unlike the joy of a new child though, many face life with dread and fear because the circumstances facing us is often not good. How is the psychosis of living a hopeful life different than that which we place on a baby?
It's just what we choose to see and do. I'm not saying it's easy to live with new hope and joy everyday. I was in the doldrums and personal dread. Yet, psychosis or loss of contact with reality is precisely what hope is.
It is a dream that we can make real.
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