I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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However I am still making the effort and it is conceivable that with the gap period of about 25 years of partially deluded thinking providing a sort of vacation my situation may be atypical.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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Statistically, it would seem improbable that any mathematician or scientist, at the age of 66, would be able through continued research efforts, to add much to his or her previous achievements.
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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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