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  Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Having frequented the lock-up wards myself during the last stages of my active alcoholism in the late seventies, I know all too well what it is like to suffer from uncontrollable hallucinations (delirium tremors) and to see no hope in life.

  Most of the people that I met in those places are either dead now or are still their behind locked doors. The straight jackets are not only made of canvas, they come in the form of powerful psychotropic drugs.

  I am particularly grateful that I could make this video and present it without shame or pride, for it is love and understanding that makes recovery possible for any of us.

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    mcgrievysr2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Spadecaller----Thank you for sharing both your and Nash's tribulations. I'm glad that you've both been dealing with them successfully.

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  Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Charlotte Church' recording of "All Love Can Be," is from the musical score of "A Beautiful Mind," a Hollywood move nominated for eight Oscars. The story is based on the biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. - a mathematical genius and his struggle with schizophrenia. This video depicts the suffering and triumph of the man, who battled his way back into the mainstream of life after shock treatments and repeated hospitalizations, and who later was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences (1994).

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  not2needy2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Thanks SC, the horrors of mental illness isn't possible to understand unless it touches you personally. Great video!

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    Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Is that why they say "touched"?

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      not2needy2 months, 3 weeks ago

      Hadn't thought about it in quite those terms, but sounds right to me, lol..

      Before becoming a social worker, i worked with mentally retarded for 5 years. That was the most rewarding job i have ever had.

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  cowboygrandpa2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Nicely done Spadecaller.

  I've had some friends that were not quite in the same reality zone at all times.

  Frightening how terribly real the terrors and traumas are to them.

  I'm sure that we have all experienced, thinking we heard or saw something that wasn't actually there. And we think little about it as we just think it was our mind playing tricks on us. How terrible must it be to not know it is not real?

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    Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Nash learned to cope with his schizophrenia; the hallucinations did not disappear. He just learned not to trust them. What a horrible way to have to live. He's still alive and dealing with the same demons that put him into the hat factory.

    Sometimes it's hard enough just dealing with what is.

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    Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Duck! Flying propeller.

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      cowboygrandpa2 months, 3 weeks ago

      LOL

      Whew must have been a close one.

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    cowboygrandpa2 months, 3 weeks ago

    I'll relate this to you as a sadly disturbing incident I encountered.

    I was working and going to school day and night. So my girlfriend used to have her friends over. I came home late from work one night and heard an argument going on. I came in ready to beat the hell out of someone.

    What I found broke my heart. There was a friend of my girlfriend standing and yelling at the refrigerator. She was yelling at the refrigerator to shut the f*ck up.

    My girlfriend was sitting at the kitchen table crying and trembling.

    We found out later she was on serious psyche. drugs and had not been taking them for a week.

    This woman was the sweetest girl in the world when on her meds. But she was scary as hell when she wasn't.

    I ended up calling the paramedics, she was just completely out of it.

    It is really sad to witness things like that and then see the funding for the mentally ill cut to nothing.

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  Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

  Nash learned to cope with his schizophrenia; the hallucinations did not disappear. He just learned not to trust them. What a horrible way to have to live. He's still alive and dealing with the same demons that put him into the hat factory.

  Sometimes it's hard enough just dealing with what is.

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    Spadecaller2 months, 3 weeks ago

    :~)

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