Posted by syringachalet on January 24, 2003, at 5:28:06
In reply to Re: remissions, John Nash and other ramblings, posted by OddipusRex on January 22, 2003, at 20:30:21
Hello Willow and all other posters,
This has been a busy week...
Regrding your post above, Willow, you are right that people with schizophrenia "mellow" with age and that their symptoms seem to not move so fast and furiously all their waking hours..
All a living beings age; we all "mellow" with age and time..look at your parents with your kids and see just how much more tolerant they are with their grandchildren than they were when you were growing up.
For some of us, we have personally started to experience this 'mellowing' in our physical health as well. Those 5 pounds that we could drop in a week at 25 now take two weeks or more at 45 or 50 years old.
Also something happens to most people when they hit their 40s is they start to realize that they are no longer 'bullet-proof' and start to have more realistic and long-term expectations of themselves and those they choose to have in
their lives.They also start to learn get 'more comfortable' with themselves and who they are and how they fit into this world. I like to call it starting to the 'age of prespective'...LOL
Most of these things above are seem also in the mentally ill population in varying degrees.
By this time they have started to adapt as much as they can to their illness(both mental and physical should any exist). They have been through lots of pdocs and meds and have all the 'war stories' to prove it. Some are bitter because they got treated unkindly or were hurt deeply by someone they trusted or allowed themselves to be vulnerable to.I think John Nash, did this aging thing with great gusto.. as he did live his life... and although he had some dandy wars stories of his struggles with his MI, he probably had his share of periodic set-backs and times when he should have been or was on medications for reasons that this movie glossed over.
Yes, there could be that rare individual that might be able to survive without the medications that contain the chemicals that help him keep his brain and thoughts in check.
I would wonder just how much of a struggle it is for JN to have to fight those thoughts every waking hour and how tough it was on his own physical health and the lives of those he lives with on his really 'bad days'....Willow, now who is rambling...
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