Reminds me of the movie “A Beautiful Mind”.
Good call. I think the character played by Russell Crowe, game theorist John F. Nash jr., got to suffer from schizophrenia around his 30th year, and only seemed recovered in his mid-fifties.
In turn this reminds me of the life story of head Beach Boy Brian D. Wilson. He was terribly abused in his youth, and around his 25th year, he developed ‘schizo-affective disorder’, a close relative of schizophrenia. He heard voices in his head that threatened to kill him. But he also heard the most beautiful music imaginable in his brain. And put it on paper, and on record. Wilson got into the claws of a psychologist who sought total control of his patient; and that man prescribed him enormous quantities of legal, but not appropriate drugs. As a result, Wilson experienced horrible setbacks, physically and mentally, for long years. Only around his 50th year he began to wrestle himself loose from that ‘doctor’. (That man, BTW, had snuck so deeply into Wilson’s life that he got his patient to change his will and leave half of his fortune to the doc, as a reward for ‘saving his patient’s life’).
Wilson fought and got back. I saw him live in London and Amsterdam, with superb shows, in 2002 and 2004. He’s recording two new albums now, one with Disney songs, and one with works by George Gershwin.
Mind over matter, or what?