Posted by OddipusRex on January 22, 2003, at 20:30:21
In reply to typos, remissions, and other ramblings, posted by Willow on January 22, 2003, at 10:38:49
John Nash in his own words
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash.html
There's also a link to an article about schizophrenics who recover. It's not as rare as people might believe and it's not necessarily linked with being medicated.
> Regarding the typos, I think we are a "persnicky" group about details, and I've wondered how much of this characteristic has to do with our "conditions." Does our love for detail drive us nuts and, if so, can I learn to tune it down? Are we like those old albums that keep skipping at certain points repeating the same thing over and over again??
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> Regarding the remissions, way back in the spring SLS wrote a good reply concerning how the picture of depression changes with age. I luckily added it to my favourites with the intention of replying. Hmmm, how many times have my intentions fruited nothing? Well even Mother Nature isn't perfect; my plum tree will bear blossoms, even once had a few green plums but alas they vanished before ripening. But the anticipation of someday being able to sample it's treats keeps it from being added to my little night-fires; although, the depressive in me says do it because the plum will be too bitter to eat. Am I beginning to ramble yet? (I thank the increased dosage of meds or for those reading may want to curse it.)
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> So, here's the link to the post I was referring to: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20020313/msgs/97946.html
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> SLS stated at the beginning of the post: "What you have described here is probably the rule rather than the exception. As one ages with depressive illness, the features of the depression change. Most often, the trend is towards dementia and away from depressed mood or melancholia. Dementia is a generic term with the following definition:"
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> The first noticeable difference as a result of my father's illness, schizophrenia, was probably caused by delusions which progressed to hallucinations, and thus odd very peculiar behaviour. Now, more than twenty years later he doesn't have either of the two. I would have to say he is left with the so called "negative" symptoms, which coincidentally are a more severe form of the same symptoms I have.
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> I don't know how factual the movie was but could see parallel's to my father's illness; though, his delusions, in my opinion, were more scattered, with each psychotic episode having a different theme, but all being based on paranoid thinking. Along similiar lines, I believe the movie called "Frailty" is a good portrayal of a child's life who has a parent with this illness, hollywood style of course. Signs is another movie which I see as synonymous too. After discussing it with a friend, she felt I saw too much. She thought the reactions of the family in Signs would be normal. I couldn't get her to understand that an adult watching television in a closet expecting to see space aliens was off from normalcy.
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> On a lighter side, she'll also argue with my viewpoint regarding the weather. Lately I don't recall her disagreeing with the fact that it is cold, but the depth of it is another story. The weather forcasters are promising that the temperature will rise to the minus teens in a few days, yet I'm sure I can find a forecast that would argue with this.
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> Enough rambling, off to bed.
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> Whooping Willow
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