The photo is Oxford scholar, Yale law student, and USC legal professor Elyn Saks, who revealed in her memoir some of the “horrors and demons of schizophrenia,” as described in the article A secret life of madness, by John M. Glionna (Los Angeles Times), who writes that “she wrestled with uncouth visions, violent commands and [...]
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An incredible time to be bipolar
Terri Cheney, a former entertainment lawyer, recounts her decades-long struggle with bipolar disorder in her new book “Manic: A Memoir.”
Hilary MacGregor writes in the Los Angeles Times, “The book is not the first to give an autobiographical account of living bipolar. It joins the ranks of Kay Redfield Jamison’s “An Unquiet Mind,” Carrie Fisher’s “Postcards [...]
Learning to befriend our demons
“My therapist gives me permission to accept that I’m human.”
Actor Claire Danes also explained in an interview that, as a kid, she “was on this whole perfection trip. And that’s just totally boring. And arrogant!…
“I finally realized after years of therapy.. that you can encourage yourself to move further in a nurturing way.”
Taking care to [...]
Schizotypal personalities and creative achievement
“Psychologists believe that a number of famous creative luminaries, including Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Emily Dickinson and Isaac Newton, had schizotypal personalities.”
That quote comes from the ScienceDaily article Odd Behavior And Creativity May Go Hand-in-hand, which explains, “Often viewed as a hindrance, having a quirky or socially awkward approach to life may be the [...]
Elizabeth Swados on bipolar and burning rubber
Tony-nominated playwright Elizabeth Swados revealed in an O Magazine article ["Bipolar Diaries," October 2007] that in her work she functioned at a high level, but in private she was in the frantic throes of bipolar disorder.
“I was talking as fast as an auctioneer, dashing from one activity to another with such intensity that I practically [...]
Psychiatrist Darold Treffert on savants and hidden potential
In his article Is There A Little Rain Man In Each Of Us?, Darold Treffert, MD asks if it is possible “to tap and use those still existent, but less frequently used, capacities and circuits, with some of their savant-like characteristics, in those of us more wedded to left brain capacity and higher level memory?”
He [...]
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