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Old August 22, 2008, 12:10 PM
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You know, Poli, I was thinking and maybe I do have a multiple-personality disorder. You know: Iris, Gemma and now María José...Just kidding.
But on a more serious note, there's something which I have always found fascinating. A lot of famous writers, poets, painters, composers ... have suffered and suffer from mental illnesses. Is it just a coincidence? Is it that we learn about it because they are famous? Or is it true, as some mental health professionals say, that a high IQ is often related to mental instability or neurological disease?
Some examples that come to mind are:
- Mary Lamb (who co-wrote Tales from Shakespeare)
- Sylvia Plath (though been married to Ted Hughes might have precipitated her tragic ending )
- John Nash
- Iris Murdoch
- Goya
- Beethoven
- Mozart
And we could go on and on. I don't know but there seems to be a link between being a great artistic genius and suffering from 'depression' (a very blurry term, I know)
Sorry if this is getting too depressing (another redundancy) but it's cloudy at the moment in Madrid.... The thing is... I like cloudy!
Cloudy in Madrid? That's rare. Cloudy in New York. Not so rare, but not today. I definitely think that mental illness opens up a well of creativity in some individuals-- a well that sometimes unfortunately cannot be controlled without heavy duty drugs. One thing I know for a fact: mental instability does not discriminate. People with high IQ's and low IQ's suffer
from it, and it is a source of creativity for some, and I am grateful for that some.
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Old August 22, 2008, 05:02 PM
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Yeah, Poli it's dificult for the person who take the treatment, above all, it's more dificult for the family, altough they don't take the treatment of heavy duty drugs but they feel over things what happen to the familiar.
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Eso es cierto CrOtALiTo, la persona con el problema mental está metido en su propio mundo y busca escape usando alguna forma de arte, pintar, dibujar, escribir música, etc. La familia de esta persona sufre porque ellos se sienten impotentes, no saben que hacer, no saben como mejorar la vida de estos individuos y muy, pero muy por dentro quizás hasta se sientan culpables por la condicion de su hija/hijo.

Es muy dificil, me imagino, vivir con un problema mental o con una persona que sufre un problema mental.

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Old August 23, 2008, 10:19 AM
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Yes, it's dificult for the family of the patient.
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In a way, maybe not to the extent that Sybil suffered, I think we all have different personalities. The difference is that we know how to control them and use them specifically depending on the situation.

We have a personality when we are home or on the job, when we meet new people, when we want to make a good impression, etc.

What I think happened to Sybil is that she was horribly abused by her mother and she used the different personalities as her defense mechanism. This type of behavior is quite prevalent in children or people in general that suffer abuse at the hands of their caretakers. Not everyone that is abused goes into some type of psychoses but usually there is some form of mental illness that requires treatment in the long run.

What a boring world this would be if we acted the same all the time.

I think that the only constant thing in life is change, and in my opinion change is always spurred on by learning and increased knowledge/awareness. It essentially doesn´t stop at speaking another language, or intended to make one another person, but a better person, someone who´s able to rise up to any situation, to relate well with most people, basically a flexible person (when the need arises), and we usually find that the knowledge of another language widens our scope.
And like Elaina so sweetly put it,
"What a boring world this would be if we acted the same all the time."
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Yes, it's dificult for the family of the patient.
We have a saying that someone caring after a sick person is not well himself.
Usually, the emotional and psychological stress on the caregivers are tremendous.
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We have a saying that someone caring after a sick person is not well himself.
Usually, the emotional and psychological stress on the caregivers are tremendous.
Totally true, I think both the sick person (whether it be a physical or mental disorder) and the caregiver need some kind of support network, either from friends, relatives or professionals.-----
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I agree wholeheartedly! No matter what your endeavor is, there should be a support network.

Does this mean we are all part of a network and we "assist" each other?

How exciting......our support network expands throughout the world!


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I agree wholeheartedly! No matter what your endeavor is, there should be a support network.

Does this mean we are all part of a network and we "assist" each other?

How exciting......our support network expands throughout the world!


I'm not trying to be , but you are great with the smilies too. I love the two globes with the football in the middle.
Sure, we are (part of a network), you are even helping me re-learn Spanish.
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Bravo!

Bravo!

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