Cassie, it remains great to see a screen where the vertiginous
first feeling of seeing it peppered with posts called 'poets and madmen'
is replaced by admiration for the continued sensitive and nuanced
discussion, your point about halos and angels and connections, in
combination with Mark Weiss's point about diagnosis being like
unpacking a medieval fragment has me decide to send the text
below which I wrote but held back some days ago.
Manics can do amazing things. Story:
Young and totally deluded (more off the planet than at any time in my life)
from quite other prior stress, I reacted to my best friends crisis and after
weeping for a bit at the doors of the mental hospital where she'd been
committed, started the process of getting her out.
It's relevant to note she often worked as a model. She was locked up:
the only lock on the exit, male psychotics numerous on the ward
(harassment incidents every few hours). Her girlfriends and I decided
to go on with the hearing to secure her release even though
her divorced parents couldn't attend, partly as neither lived locally and
also as both were just too upset... Despite me being very gone and
by that stage obviously so to closer friends... even though she as a
trained actor could have performed more helpfully (and I mean
that well)... On the day, it was almost certainly the respectable books
industry witness to the mental health review board, offering
quiet job in a bookshop (with a little help from a girlfriend's evidence)
that got her out... Talked like the suit I was wearing
and smiled gravely as they discharged her into my care.
It's not as good to have that success with bank managers, however.
yours faithfully
Hugh Tolhurst
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