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8. Easy to read, and a wonderful research tool. Well, I would write more but I think I have bored you enough? but it must be interesting to hear from one of the family from a book you included in your bibliography. To repeat as I said, your book is written extremely well and is a tremendous contribution to the study of schizophrenia. —Charles Antin
7. In Schizophrenia, - The Bearded Lady Disease, Mike Mahoney offers an outside the envelope approach to this regrettable staple of today's psychological problems. Mahoney's question, answer, and case study approach reflects serious thought, yielding a productive and fascinating read for any one interested in the mental illness that plagues today's society. —Eugene R. Baker
6. I am a 21 year old schizophrenic male living in... I always suspected I was going to suffer from the illness until there was a break when I was 17 (prodrome) and my first psychotic break on valentines day age 20. I´ve always supported the hypothesis of gender role confusion and agree with Freud, Schreber. I spend my time on the computer reading about the illness and have discovered lots of things myself before reading them on the internet. I have this hope that I might solve the riddle or get cured as I have some advantages which first is the illness itself, always been interested in psychology and studied it in university, and I am/or partially a highly intelligent individual in domains where the illness has not damaged. I am analytical as well. This summer has changed my life. I had lots of stress and I spent some time living with my father. He used to take me for drinks to the bar under his home. This was the last times I felt like me. I used to drink beer and talk with everyone in the bar (males). I was totally charming, funny and intelligent and interesting to talk to. Everybody wanted to know about me as I was totally different and emotionally free. However the last days it became clear, so to say, I was not a man rather a kid or a feminine hermaphrodite psyche (what the hell, a bearded lady!). He was spirited. Comments of "lady" or homosexual were suggested although not in a hostile manner rather in a friendly way. Since then I haven't been the same and everyone in the bar sort of misses that special/eccentric wonder-kid. After those spirited beer drinking days I had a psychotic episode which was different to the ones I had before as I had it during day time and not at night when I lie down to sleep. It lasted 3 days , no eating and no sleeping. After that I think I might have violently repressed those qualities/tendencies and I felt libido energy rising from the end of the back towards the brain (hallucination?). I feel I have forced myself into being a man, however since then I am unable to feel like I were myself and affect has also been blocked so I have problems with all the friends/family I had before that violent psychotic break. I think it is pretty clear that your hypothesis applies to me perfectly and I would like to offer you my acquaintance to support your research. I am ready to devote my life to solving this riddle and i am sure I can help you in your research if you would like to start a dialogue thru email and I am sure as well you could help me. Furthermore, I am son of a schizophrenic mother and a neurotic father. I have noted sexuality issues in all mentally disturbed people I know. Paranoia definitely is repressed homosexual libido and psychosis is discharge of the libido although in a toxic manner. Pleading to God you might find my acquaintance valuable and worthwhile. Perhaps we can complete the puzzle. —Name Withheld |
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