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Expres do ráje - Mark Vonnegut
První kniha syna známého spisovatele je autorskou výpovědí o světě za hranicí reálného a normálního, je strhujícím vyprávěním o cestě mladého muže napříč krajinou šílenství. Autor-hlavní postava po absolvování univerzity odchází znuděný akademickým životem a nedůvěřivý k náhlé slávě svého otce do lesů kanadské Britské Kolumbie, kde se svou přítelkyní zakládá komunu. Po počátečním nadšení se u něj začnou projevovat zřetelné rysy duševní choroby.
Brian Wilson and I - Mark Vonnegut challenges the myth of "creative genius"
In this personal essay, author and pediatrician Mark Vonnegut draws parallels to Brian Wilson and challenges the stigmas of mental illness. He reflects on the thorny label of “creative genius” that was assigned to both Wilson and his own father, author Kurt Vonnegut. Brian Wilson and I, being born in the 40s and barely surviving the 60s, shared many of the same diagnoses, treatments and side effects. Brian Wilson is a creative genius.
Letter: Stop spending money on a deer problem that might not even exist in Blue Hills
To the editor: Enough. We’ve been hunting deer in the Blue Hills Reservation with guns and bows and arrows for six years. We’ve killed about 300 at a cost of approximately $2,000 per deer. We still don’t have an accurate count of how many deer there are, or whether hunting significantly decreases the population. Deer can and do give birth to more fawns when the population goes down. The health of the forest has not improved. There’s just as much Lyme disease as ever.
Recovery and Service: On Being a Physician with Mental Illness
Personal Narrative Jun 2016 Recovery and Service: On Being a Physician with Mental Illness Mark Vonnegut, MD Abstract For physicians with psychiatric illness, especially when newly diagnosed, one concern can be what effect patients’ knowledge of their physician’s diagnosis can have on their relationship.
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What It Feels Like to Be Genuinely Psychotic
In the beginning the voices were fairly friendly, but then they became more insistent and critical. Unfortunately, they have a lot of inside information that can and will be used against you. You don't know you're mentally ill, so you simply assume that things have changed for everyone. Maybe hearing disembodied voices is just part of the new deal. I remember sitting down next to a friend and saying, "So what are your voices telling you?" He got up and found himself a different place to sit.
There’s a Book for That: Mental Health Awareness
May has been Mental Health Month since 1949. This year’s theme is “Life with a Mental Illness.” Over the decades, the topic of mental health has certainly become more prominent, with the help of a growing number of recognizable people “coming out” with their mental disorders and increasing reporting in popular media. However, not all of this coverage has been helpful.
Excerpt: 'Armageddon in Retrospect'
More Recommendations Get more summer reading picks from Alan Cheuse. Armageddon in RetrospectBy Kurt VonnegutHardcover, 240 pages List Price: $24.95 Hear Vonnegut's Stories Rip Torn reads Kurt Vonnegut's newly published 'Wailing Shall Be In All Streets' Mark Vonnegut is a pediatrician and author of the memoir The Eden Express. He wrote the introduction to Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of posthumously published writing by his father, Kurt Vonnegut.
A doctor shares his story about overcoming mental illness
Being related to a famous person is somewhere between a cruel joke and a minor distraction. My father was immensely talented and worked very hard at his writing, but the degree of his success was a fantastically unlikely bit of luck. There are lots of talented, hard-working artists who don’t make it. The important thing in overcoming mental illness, whether or not you have a famous last name, is to want things to be better — and being willing to get help to make that happen.
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