Download or read book The Ravings of a Madman written by Camino Elgarc and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you are about to read is dark and confronting. It represents a period, long gone, when my life collapsed, and I had no answers. Lack of purpose and immense grief pushed me into a marginal existence where life itself became irrelevant and at times I imagined death as offering the only release from pain. This is not uncommon; many people will have been through similar circumstances. Most survive and I am one of them. When I gave my draft to a good friend of mine for advice and comment she suggested that I write an introduction that showed that I had come through these events and that I had prospered. I have. At the time I saw no way through, I didn’t care to find a way through. Psychoanalysis and associated drugs, and support from friends, allowed a thinning of clouds over time. I do not believe my mind would have allowed me to rest without the release of medication and I do not believe medication would have been an option without professional help. When in a situation such as that depicted here, drugs offer a small clearance of light in a world of shadows. Yet, at the same time, I believe that trauma has a function. It slaps you in the face with a realignment of values that sometimes leads to growth. A growth partnered by change at a time when all your focus is on keeping things together; batting down the hatches to allow you to weather the storm. When the storm passes you find a new you. The first thing to suffer was business. Not only did I not care about it, but I held it partly responsible for some of the damage to my family. I was very fortunate to have some people who continued to grind away at their job, who offered support in the best way they knew how, by doing their job. It somehow survived though substantially diminished. I have never again really worked at it. The new me did not have the capacity for prolonged effort and I became a person of “projects”. Most were purely indulgent, others for gain. Enough have succeeded so that I do not have an empty box awaiting a tick. I have done OK

Download or read book The Ravings of a Madman written by Wil R P McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ravings of a Madman is a look into my broken mind. An anthology of short stories, poetry, prose, and freewriting that I have written to help me cope with my Schizophrenia and Manic Depression. I have suffered from both of these ailments for most of my adult life, and I have finally found an outlet in my writing. I write not only to help myself. I write in hopes that others may see my words and find solace and see that they are not alone.

Download or read book Ravings of a Madman written by Stephen Walz and published by . This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

Download or read book Raving at Usurers written by Dwight Codr and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr’s development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of—rather than in spite of—early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics. Beginning with the reconstruction of a major controversy provoked by the delivery of a sermon against usury in the financial heart of London, Codr goes on to show not only how the ethic at the core of the discourse surrounding usury in the eighteenth century was culturally mediated but also how that ethic may be used as a lens to better understand major works of eighteenth-century literature. Codr offers radically new perspectives on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, examining how these novels reacted to emergent financial ways of knowing and meaning as well as how the texts formally bear out the possibility of a truly open and uncertain future. By reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, Raving at Usurers offers a reassessment of what has been called the financial revolution in England and provides a revisionist account of the intimate connection between risk, ethics, and economics in the period.

Download or read book Poetry Past And Present Or the Ravings of a Madman written by MAC Mcgovern and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry based on a celebration of life accumulated through living, loving, spiritual and educational experiences.

Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

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Download or read book Madness written by Justin Garson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. In Madness, philosopher of science Justin Garson presents a radically different paradigm for conceiving of madness and the forms that it takes. In this paradigm, which he calls madness-as-strategy, madness is neither a disease nor a defect, but a designed feature, like the heart or lungs. The book will be essential reading for philosophers of medicine and psychiatry, historians and sociologists of medicine, and mental health service users, survivors, and activists, for its alternative and liberating vision of what it means to be mad.

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Download or read book In the Mouth of Madness written by Michael Blyth and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neglected upon its initial release in 1995, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness has since developed a healthy cult reputation. It now appears as one of his most thematically complex and stylistically audacious pieces of work, prescient and more essential than ever. This book seeks to position this overlooked masterpiece as essential Carpenter.

Download or read book Madness and the demand for recognition written by Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madness is a complex and contested term. Through time and across cultures it has acquired many formulations: for some, madness is synonymous with unreason and violence, for others with creativity and subversion, elsewhere it is associated with spirits and spirituality. Among the different formulations, there is one in particular that has taken hold so deeply and systematically that it has become the default view in many communities around the world: the idea that madness is a disorder of the mind. Contemporary developments in mental health activism pose a radical challenge to psychiatric and societal understandings of madness. Mad Pride and mad-positive activism reject the language of mental 'illness' and 'disorder', reclaim the term 'mad', and reverse its negative connotations. Activists seek cultural change in the way madness is viewed, and demand recognition of madness as grounds for identity. But can madness constitute such grounds? Is it possible to reconcile delusions, passivity phenomena, and the discontinuity of self often seen in mental health conditions with the requirements for identity formation presupposed by the theory of recognition? How should society respond? Guided by these questions, this book is the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the claims and demands of Mad activism. Locating itself in the philosophy of psychiatry, Mad studies, and activist literatures, the book develops a rich theoretical framework for understanding, justifying, and responding to Mad activism's demand for recognition.

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Download or read book Theaters of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.