Posted by stjames on October 15, 2000, at 12:58:50
In reply to Some psychos i've gotten to know and love, posted by pullmarine on October 14, 2000, at 19:45:58
> Erik Satie, French composer and all around psycho. Very interesting life, not to mention his writings and compositions
> Mozart, german French composer and all around psycho.Great list. Satie was probably OCD. Obsessed with 3. 3 can be found througout his music in theme, form and analysis.
His living quarters, which nobody saw when he was living, were OCD spotless. He had multiple sets of the same clothes.
Always appeared neat as a pin.Ah, Mozart ! Prodigy with stage father who really pushed him. It is common with a prodigy that was pushed from an early age
to develop odd behaviors. Van Cliburn, for instance. Tom Hulches manaical laff in "Amadeus" has a factual basis.
Throughout Mozarts letters one finds the phrase "And I laff'ed and laff'ed and laff'ed". Mozart never saw much sucess, no patron and only
a minor court appointment. Very poor, there are very sad letters to Mozarts father begging for money.> Van Gogh, possibly Bi-polar, Committed suicide)
The body mulitation is sugesstive of schizoid disorgers. Thank god for his brother !
He was an art dealer who supported Van Gogh all of his life (Van Gogh sold no paintings, people hated his work,
burned a lot. His brother saw the greatness a head of its time and supported his brother and picked up the peices after
many breakdowns) Clearly Van Goug had mental illness but painting at that time
was very toxic as paints were lead based. Painters lick their brushes to get a good point. Lead and
other metals are neurotoxic. The solvants painters use are toxic, too. There are letters from Van Gogh to his brother
saying he was eating paint and drinking solvants. Nice ! Crazy to start with and the metals and other
things really did him in.> Salvador Dali. spanish painter. Psychotic.
White hot brilliant. Chaos theorist.
> Kurt Cobain. Musician.Bi-polar. Heroine addict. suicide.As if being married to Courtany was not enough !
> Joan of arc. easily schiozophrenic.possibly trans-gendered.Well said !
> Edgar allen poe. depressive.
Very addicted to laudinum (opium) or mophine. Self medication, perhaps ?
The drugs he was on contributed to the distinict tone to this writing.
> Francis farmer. us actress. bi-polar.Poor Francis ! What treatment she got was pre-med.
Insulin Coma therapy, a high dose of insulin is ingected. produces
a seizure, shock. Barbaric. Also high dose and frequancy ECT.I'll add my list later, thanks pullmarine, this is an intresting thread !
james
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