Posted by deirdrehbrt on April 21, 2004, at 22:29:26
In reply to Help with psychosis questions, posted by DramaGirl on April 19, 2004, at 12:08:41
Drama Girl,
I think that one of the best resources for that project might be to watch "A beautiful Mind". It is about John Nash, a Nobel Prize winning mathematician. He was a schizophrenic, and a briliant man.
If your character just has occasional hallucinations, I might help a bit. I have ocassional psychotic symptoms, and they are in the form of hallucinations. I have visual, auditory and olfactory hallucinations. Right now, I don't drive because what I see isn't always really there. I once hit a car that I didn't see.
If you want to understand what it's like, look in front of you, and imagine that one of the objects that you see isn't there. Imagine walking down a street, and thinking you just stepped on something, and when you go back to look, you find it wasn't there. As time goes on, you find that when you see something that you don't expect, you have to look again. You find that you can't completely trust your senses. Everything has to be checked again. You become pleased when you experience something and find it to be real.
Good luck on your play. It's quite a task, but I am sure that you are up to it. You are obviously doing some good research. I hope you get to see it performed someday.
Dee.
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