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On July 20, 2009 at 12:24am -0500, "thePCwarrior" <thepcwarrior@gmail.com> wrote:

Dude, as someone termed schizoaffective I can tell you that you're dealing with a subject whose scope and pathos you have no real identification with. Anyways, such a book with its "elementary schism as all-encompassing crux" does nothing to shed light on the subject. I could just say you're an old crusty bastard posing as intellect, but that would be too easy. That you would want to spread such a mind as yours "eros pervading day and night-all-solvent".such a granted knowingness always betrays a temperament. That this effort gives you pride is sad indeed.

[Note: All quotations in this Impressions item are the PCWarrior's own quotations, and not those of the author.]

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Hi Mike,

I first heard about John Nash when the movie, A Beautiful Mind, was first released. I didn't know really who he was until 60 Minutes ran a piece on him. Because of my own history, anything to do with schizophrenia always catches my interest. During the segment the interviewer asked Mr. Nash if he was a homosexual and he answered no. His wife Alicia then spoke up and said that she has been his wife for a long time and believe me he is not a homosexual. When I heard that question the first thing that I thought was that Nash must have gone through the same kind of confusion that I had gone through. After all, where did that question come from? It wasn't until after I read Sylvia Nasar's book did I understand where that question came from and why it was asked. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, was really well done as movies go, but there was much that was not covered in his life and I noticed that the dates or time line when his psychosis first appeared were wrong. The American Experience documentary that I sent you does a much better job of covering Mr Nash's life story, but it also doesn't mention anything about early bisexual confusion that Sylvia Nasar mentions in her book. Nasar did mention that the the old Freudian theory that the anxious panic of a schizophrenic is a homosexual panic at its core is now rejected by the psychiatric community. I wish that more people, psychiatrist especially, would take the time to read Kempf's paper at your website. Katan's theory that hallucinations are a discharge of repressed homosexual libido also makes perfect sense to me. The way that Nash's symptoms slowly receded as he got older could be a result of lessening of hormones and thus libido energy as a person ages. Anyway Mike, that is my take on the curious case of John Nash.

Best regards, John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrAc5CVw2zQ

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Hi Mike,

[....] has been in and out of the hospital twice in the last 10 days. He insists that the men he is living with have stolen his brain and want to do him harm. He also told [....] that he doesn't like being around men. That he dislikes all of them and is refusing to go back to the community living arrangement with other men. His father suggested again bringing him to [....] for awhile if he is relatively normal. This reminds me of some of the cases in your book.

Are you aware of anyone anywhere in the country that would be willing to see [....] for Psychoanalysis in the manner that Kempf Did? [....] is thinking once again that your theory may be correct and that is the only way to address the problem.

Hope all is well with you. [....]

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Hi Mike

I just watched an episode of The American Experience about Jim Jones. It is a PBS documentary that I recorded on my VCR the other night. Different people were talking about Jim Jones and his sex life. This one lady said that Jim Jones believed that he was the only heterosexual person in the world. He believed that all of the women were lesbians and all the men were gay. He would sodomize some of the different men in his congregation but he publicly said that they should give themselves enemas first. Jones seems like a classic case of the bearded lady syndrome. I still have the documentary recorded on a VCR tape and could send it to you if you'd like.

Best regards, John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7IxGGfpSWk

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[----] is back in the psychiatric hospital. [----] went down to SA and got him in yesterday afternoon after receiving calls from him all day that were about the voices etc. He has been calling here since arriving quite often on their pay phone and telling her that he has gotten rid of the anthrax and gangrene right away but that he couldn't find his cigarettes. [----] is now afraid that he will be thrown out of his program. I will keep you updated. Hope you are well. [----]

55.

Schizophrenics have unresolved gayness.

--- a personal communication

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You are so damn cute. O.K .. I get what you're saying .. to say that is the case for ALL mental illness is interesting for thought .. and I will continue to contemplate this! I do see it SO MUCH, especially being in my position where I was living the "right" way, then the choice was truly insanity, or living my truth .. I see SO MANY PEOPLE who are wound up beyond belief, almost coming out of their skin with anxiety &/or anger, and I always think "they seem gay to me, wonder why they don't just come out?" You know, I think a lot of it is too much of a sense of self importance. They think they're so almighty important that the world will stop turning if they come out of the closet. If I could tell 50 Catholic family members.. little old Catholic parents, a husband and 2 teenagers that I'm gay.. then anyone can do it. And look, everyone's fine... kids are alive and yes, bummed that their parents got divorced, but not bummed that their mom's living her truth. Hopefully they learned a lesson about getting through huge identity crisis' -- and about unconditional love.

I just adore my name next to the title of Psychologist! I actually headed into grad school to get my Masters in PSych when I was 40, but decided that I was going to need to focus on coming out and getting divorced instead, my head was too not screwed on tight to make it through .. and the classes were TOUGH. I took neuropsychopharmacology and it kicked my booty... without 100% focus I couldn't make it.

Did I tell you that I sat with my clippings the other night.. it was my little meditation time. I rarely take time to "chill out" anymore.. and it was a real treat. I'll have to tell you about my 93 year old gay client.. she never says it.. but it's obvious. From that time they're conditioned with words like "woman friend" .. "no, I never found the right man" I always want to say "ya.. cuz your right man had a vagina!"    ha!

I must get to work!

A big fat hug across cyberspace

Susan  2071rental@gmail.com

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Hi Mike. An update on [deleted] that you may see a progression in? He has been saying for the past two weeks that his mind is being taken away from him. He has dropped most of the predictions of great things coming to him. Girls, prizes, awards etc. and has become very depressed saying over and over that he is dying. He has accused his mother of sending him to places that stole his mind. One in particular was the NIH institute in Maryland that he spent about a month at for diagnosis and treatment in 2001. He told her that they had him watch horrible pictures of people being tortured and mistreated and he keeps having recurring visions of this. He is sure that this is what started his mind going bad. He has spent the last two weeks with his father from [deleted] who came to [deleted]. He told his father over and over that he needed a woman. His father took him to a lap dance place the night before last and bought him two lap dances. He told his father that during the last one he had a climax which was what he needed. His father is now considering getting him a prostiture. This was related to [deleted] this morning by the father.

In your past experience do you see any progression in this and what it might be? Thanks in advance for any comments you might have. [deleted]

[Deleted], He is still terribly ill. The lap dance thing was probably very good therapy for him, especially if he really did climax. The prostitute idea is also a good one, I think, because he can't get much sicker than he already is, except if he suicides, which is an ever-present danger in these cases. Even better than a prostitute, I believe, would be a female "sex-surrogate" who works with sexually-dysfunctional males. If the dad does get a prostitute for him, I hope he picks out a nice, gentle and caring one. The dad should talk with the girl beforehand and make sure she is suitable for the task ahead!

What does [mother] think about all this? [afterword: She approves.]

Very best, Mike

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Dr. Mahoney: Your book has 'rocked my world.' I have a paranoid-schizophrenic brother, but I have experienced manic-depression myself. I feel strongly that there is a link there; have you explored this? I resolved my sexual ambivalence, and my symptoms went away. Can you comment?

[name deleted for privacy reasons]

Dear Mr. [deleted],

Many thanks for your email. (I am not a "Dr." - I am a lay researcher.) From the research I have done, however, I have come to the conclusion that "manic-depression" and "schizophrenia" are one and the same illness, with the same cause, namely, severe bisexual conflict/gender confusion. It seems you have done a very admirable job in resolving your own mental turmoil by coming to terms with your "sexual ambivalence." Many congratulations!! Unfortunately, once a person slips into the paranoid stage of the illness it become much more difficult to effect a cure because the paranoid person is so terrified of his (or her) "perverse" sexual feelings that he would rather die than admit to them, so to speak.

To my way of thinking, all functional mental illness is caused by this basic bisexual/gender confusion conflict, from neurosis up to the most severe forms of so-called "schizophrenia". The degree of the illness always depends upon the severity of the conflict.

I am very sorry to hear about your brother. I do hope he is receiving psychodynamic psychotherapy of some sort. It would be his only chance ever to recover, to provide him with the necessary insight into his severe bisexual conflict and gender confusion. (Pls refer on my website to the article by Dr. Edward J. Kempf.)

Many thanks again for your email, and the very best of luck and success to you.

Mike Mahoney

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Sir.

I have recently come to read your hypothesis as to the cause of schizophrenia and realized you may be interested in this work of mine.

I have for a number of years being trying to explain how I made a discovery..

The discovery I have made has now been shown to be more effective in more diseases than any treatment in history.

It has now been shown to be .. recommended .. for more diseases than any treatment in history.

I came across the finding of man being a herbivore eating meat.

The iron from the meat we eat builds to toxic levels in the body causing all disease.

One of the results is endocrine disorder.

Hypogonadism / low testosterone at one time had only one treatment .. iron reduction therapy.

It has been shown iron excess is known to cause schizophrenia but they believe it doesn't cause all schizophrenia.

I believe a hypothesis must be proven .. false .. before a statement of 'it cannot cause all schizophrenia' can be used by reasonable men.

If iron is KNOWN to cause schizophrenia then one MUST eliminate iron in order to disregard it.

My work is found on the Nature Network and this work .. iron reduction therapy .. has now been shown to be more effective in more diseases than any treatment in history.

The treatment is bloodletting / blood donation which lowers the iron levels down to normal.

It seems you have done alot of work and may not have been thanked properly ... but .. such is life isn't it ..

Thank you for your work ,

Tom

Herbivore Hypothesis

http://network.nature.com/groups/herbivore/forum/topics