Word: schizophrenia
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...Gone—and that’s saying a lot. Equal parts lilting lullaby and drunken caterwaul, Bows and Arrows sounds like the demented brainchild of a beer-spattered New York hustler with only his inflated sense of self-importance for company. But through each bout of sonic schizophrenia, the Walkmen’s intent and delivery shine clear: each arrow reaches its target with the precision of a Tolkien elf to create gorgeously ethereal, emotionally wringing music...
DIED. JANET FRAME, 79, whose intense explorations of mental illness made her one of New Zealand's most acclaimed authors; of leukemia; in Dunedin, New Zealand. After suffering a breakdown that was misdiagnosed as schizophrenia, she spent eight years in two mental hospitals; she was about to undergo a lobotomy when a hospital worker read that her work had won a literary prize. She went on to publish 12 novels, as well as poetry, story collections and a three-volume autobiography...
...Romance continues the grand post-punk PGMG tradition, with the schizophrenia of the band’s tempos and chords supplementing the delicate imperfections of Andrea Zollo’s vulnerable voice. The disc’s highlight, “This Is Our Emergency,” serves as a perfect exercise in false-climactic restraint...
Diagnoses--from a string of doctors that included Carl Jung--ranged from neurosis to schizophrenia to syphilis to barbiturate addiction to simple moodiness. Whatever ailed Lucia, it made her both impossible to live with and unable to take care of herself. She spent the last 45 years of her life in institutions, incarcerated and medicated, until she died in 1982. Shloss's patient research expands what could have been a footnote to literary history into a tragedy of wasted promise. Shloss gives us a James Joyce we have never seen before, a portrait that encompasses both the great writer...
...society it is still the case that mental disorders may be misunderstood, seen as frightening, belittled or treated as a moral taint rather than an illness. Such stigmatizing attitudes are entirely wrong. Modern science makes it quite clear that depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders are diseases of the brain. Just like diabetes or heart disease, mental disorders have their roots in the interaction of genetic and non-genetic risk factors. Just like these other medical disorders, the symptoms reflect abnormal physiology—in the case of mental disorders, abnormal physiology...