I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton.
JOHN FORBES NASHIn a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
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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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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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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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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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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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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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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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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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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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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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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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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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