Tag: schizofrenia

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Don McLean about Vincent: “I had to argue he wasn’t crazy.” Mental Health Awareness Month.

Antonella Barberini

  In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms,” he says. “I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of ‘crazy’ – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics … Continue reading Don McLean about Vincent: “I had to argue he wasn’t crazy.” Mental Health Awareness Month.

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Emotional Pride vs Memory pill.

Antonella Barberini

What stand emotions for ? Why can they be negative, and not only positive, and how can we better manage the negative ones ? Especially, after burn out, or trauma ? Do we feel the same at same level? Of course, we don’t. Since we are unique beings. Unique hearts and minds. As unaware empath and higher sensitive person, I struggled to gain emotional balance all my life. In forty three years, I have been thinking : « This is my fault. I am not strong enough. I won’t ever fit in the box » To be honest, fitting that box, the more I try, the … Continue reading Emotional Pride vs Memory pill.