In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
JOHN FORBES NASHI would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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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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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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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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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
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I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.
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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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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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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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Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.
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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.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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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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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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