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Jul 2, 2021 16:06:08 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 2, 2021 16:06:08 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Jul 2, 2021 16:15:05 GMT
I guess that means the movie won’t be released until November! I hope we at least get a trailer long before then.
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Jul 5, 2021 21:33:06 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jul 5, 2021 21:33:06 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2021 10:45:56 GMT
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Jul 11, 2021 12:00:51 GMT
Post by mllemass on Jul 11, 2021 12:00:51 GMT
They tweeted about it, too.
If you were wondering just how long 900 words are, I looked it up!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2021 12:34:05 GMT
So, it’s very short! 😉
I don’t know why I bothered to read the comments but I did and I was angered by one…again! Lol Someone claiming that schizophrenia doesn’t exist! I thought he or she would say that there was doubt about Wain having schizophrenia or not, which it’s a valid point but no! The person agrees with BC about oddballs and then claims schizophrenia doesn’t exist! This reminds me to when some online activists claiming a few years ago that it was just “another way of thinking” and there wasn’t anything wrong with it and anyone who thought it was an illness was a bigot!
I know someone who suffers from it and it’s a horrible and devastating thing. Thinking that people around you want to hurt you and hurt them before it, it’s in no way just “another way of thinking”! There is a debate about what happened to Wain but he wasn’t institutionalized because he was an oddball who drew cute cats but because he thought his little sisters killed the older one and become violent against them. It wasn’t him anymore. He was sick and he was a danger to his sisters. I don’t know if the film will include all these. I hope because that’s the painful truth of mental illness. It’s not just about eccentricity or oddballs!
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Jul 11, 2021 12:56:14 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Jul 11, 2021 12:56:14 GMT
I saw a tweet of someone speculating on the possibility of the movie opening or closing LFF.
The 65th BFI London Film Festival will run from 6 to 17 October 2021.
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Post by ellie on Jul 11, 2021 13:00:11 GMT
They tweeted about it, too. If you were wondering just how long 900 words are, I looked it up! They probably only asked for 200 words. 😂
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Jul 11, 2021 14:00:47 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Jul 11, 2021 14:00:47 GMT
I worked years with a person who was clinically diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and it was very scary. Scary for me, for others and for her. It was when I was a library technician, before becoming a teacher. Her parents were influential people in our community and decided to pull their adult daughter out of a mental institution and "dump" her in our high school library as a "volunteer" to "help" her learn how to socialize (get her out of their hair). And it is definitely NOT just another way of thinking... it is a terrible illness.
She destroyed books, card catalogs, and library supplies. She threatened and scared the students. She exposed herself in public places, and she talked about hurting others with scissors (and other weapons). She would go into trance-like states in which she would repeat chants for hours and she would talk endlessly about how EVERYONE was out to insult her, degrade her, hate her, and plot against her. She would repeatedly tell me that even if anyone complimented or said nice things to her, they were really insulting her because they hated her and wanted her to fail. So I didn't know what to say to her because she absolutely didn't accept any correction if she made a mistake (even if you couched it in the most mild, positive terms)! I was always walking on eggshells when I was around her. This is NOT normal behaviour! I don't blame her - she was ill and not responsible for her actions. I completely blame her parents (and yet there is a part of me that pities them too).
I eventually got them to agree not to send her to the library when I was working alone with her during the summer months when the students weren't there. I was actually fearful that she would become violent towards me and I was so isolated from any other person (the library was a long way from the school's main office) that I would be very vulnerable in case she attacked me.
Schizophrenia exists. It is real. It is definitely an illness. And to say it isn't is to be in complete denial of reality.
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Jul 11, 2021 14:56:50 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2021 14:56:50 GMT
Yes, my experience is similar. Also a co-worker and someone with an overprotective parent (even when she is in her 50s) that deludes herself that everyone is indeed “bullying” or “abusing” her daughter until she began accusing her own family members and/or physically attacking them. She have never physically assaulted us but it’s very scary when you hear the family stories or when she behaves in a threatening way.
She isn’t always like that. She has these psychotic paranoid episodes that frequently end with her being institutionalized for short periods. She says she actually prefers being there when she has these episodes because she is treated nicely. But yeah, I am perplexed by her mother always believing that people are indeed harassing her daughter or her blaming others for her behavior when she knows very well her condition. It always ends with both apologizing when it becomes clear it WAS another episode.
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