Comments on L'eggs Up And Laughing: Storytelling

Gosh, that's seems like a lot of victims. And ther...

2009-06-04T08:02:48.096+10:00

Gosh, that's seems like a lot of victims. And there's so little understanding in our culture that mental illness is a real illness. We've had bouts of depression in our family. My youngest has suffered with it. He's done well in so many ways and no one understands, Including him, that it is a health issue that can be treated. I hope you're doing well. Miss your blogs.
I've moved away from blogger... my new site is http://www.bettyjf1.typepad.com/ Still a work in progress.

I read a positive review of this play, but I knew ...

2009-05-29T17:49:02.134+10:00

I read a positive review of this play, but I knew I'd never be able to see it...because you don't get to see plays when you have a baby!

Now I feel like you've seen it for both of us. Thank you for your evocative reaction and the chance to ponder the artist mum's dilemma.

The play sounds like one I would have avoided but ...

2009-05-28T08:40:13.182+10:00

The play sounds like one I would have avoided but ultimately one about a subject I should know more about. The stigma in relation to mental illness is huge and it probably doesnt help people get the treatment they deserve (and not only in the medical sense).

Schizophrenia affects so many. A dear, funny, ir...

2009-05-27T02:25:54.790+10:00

Schizophrenia affects so many. A dear, funny, irreverant friend of ours, a professor at a big university, has twin boys. Grown-up men now: one just fine and the other wandering the streets of San Francisco, homeless and delusional, resisting all help, a schizophrenic, brilliant mess of a young man.

One day our friend said something that just pierced me at my core. When we'd called to invite him round to dinner he told me he couldn't possibly. When I asked why, he just said, "Oh Lin, it's been one of those days and when I walked through the door tonight, relieved to be home, my legs just gave out on me. My grief, today, has taken over. Let me take a raincheck."

And that is what it is like for the family of these tortured souls. There are drugs that help, but unless hospitalized, so many schizophrenics will not self-medicate in a way that best helps them. It is heartbreaking and why I always give a homeless person something and think, there but for the grace of...

Schizophrenia is so scary and traumatic. I know t...

2009-05-26T09:58:45.055+10:00

Schizophrenia is so scary and traumatic. I know the reason my cousin committed suicide was partly because she hated being a burden and felt imprisoned by her mental illness. When she was medicated she hated "the fog," and when she wasn't medicated no one could bear to be around her.

Another cousin, after years of drug abuse, has recently been diagnosed schizophrenic after he was locked up for pulling a gun on his mother. He hates being alive, too... but instead of drinking cyanide he's killing himself by starvation.

Please Mary, Joseph, Jesus and Sweet God spare my Zoey...

It was hard Betty, and in some ways not a play i w...

2009-05-26T07:30:57.066+10:00

It was hard Betty, and in some ways not a play i would have chosen to see ( my friend had got the tickets) but I was really aware that it was very true to other people's lives and, who knows, perhaps reflective of ours in the future. I live in a house with four small boys I love very much. Schizophrenia mostly appears between 15 and 25 years. At least 1 in a hundred people have it in Australia...

I really enjoyed your post. The play sounds like s...

2009-05-25T23:53:13.818+10:00

I really enjoyed your post. The play sounds like something, I'd have a hard time getting through. Someone close to me has spent time searching through skid rows to find her oldest son who has been addicted to drugs and alcohol since he was 12. She's actually found him from time to time. The light and hope is a day by day thing for her. I'm glad you were able to get out for a while.

Enjoyed this post. Lots of food for thought. I th...

2009-05-25T16:11:53.537+10:00

Enjoyed this post.
Lots of food for thought.
I think you just have to live each day as it comes and get the best out of each day, as time goes so quickly (faster as you get older) and no one knows what is round the corner. Enjoy you little son. Write when you can.
Friends and plays will still be there if you wait a while.