What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you weren’t living in reality, and that reality was nothing more than a psych hospital? Would you go? Would you make that leap back into reality, leave such a vivid life, for ceramic walls and metal gurneys?
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Thursday Jan 01, 2015
Thursday Jan 01, 2015
I competed these films while undergoing a dark, deep experience with depression, existential despair and with new tears for old grief.
Friday Dec 19, 2014
Friday Dec 19, 2014
Whoa! One of my many mental health
conditions may require a more accurate diagnosis after creating and viewing
this long, but fascinating study of the possibility of schizotypal personality
disorder currently diagnosed as “not otherwise specified.” This documentary may
hold specified content from my real-deal private life. I feel accomplished this
morning after a load on my back was removed finally finishing this film and
with the publication of my latest novel on Christmas 2014. Jonathan Harnisch (who
writes this) is an acclaimed author and all-around artist with many artistic
and technological achievements under his belt. He is not (as of 11 December
2014 - the day this video was shot) diagnosed with schizotypal personality
disorder, though it definitely sounds accurate to Jonathan (to me, and
seemingly to my wife as well) but he is (I am) currently diagnosed with
schizophrenia, more precisely schizoaffective disorder, a personality disorder
NOS (not otherwise specified) and PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) with a
“side dish” (my own humor mentioned in the film) of Tourette’s syndrome.
Schizotypal personality disorder is in a league of its own, a mental health
condition in which a person has trouble with relationships and disturbances in
thought patterns, appearance, and behavior, eccentricities in everyday
behavior, a rather mixed blend of mental illnesses, similar to many other
conditions, and with an emphasis on shared traits with histrionic personality
disorder. Spend a day with Jonathan if you can handle it! This video is made to
be educational, first, and for entertainment otherwise. It was indeed therapeutic
for me to make and watch and perhaps I may be able to shed some further light
in terms of helping to fix the troubled mental health system as an open
advocate for severe and rare mental, and physical conditions and disabilities.
I appreciate your support. Feel free to write me via Twitter @jwharnisch. Thank
you again.
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
The collected writings of Jonathan Harnisch
mark a magnificent contribution to the public understanding of mental illness
through a masterpiece of transgressive fiction with a heart. The general reader
is finally able to see mainstream literary author Jonathan Harnisch at his
best. Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia contain the works of 2014, Jonathan
Harnisch: An Ali Biography and Second Alibi: The Banality of Life, in one complete
streaming narrative. The monumental scale of Harnisch’s achievement through
adversity flourishes and can now be appreciated in this diverse, invaluable,
and thought-provoking collection of fragmented fiction, which will make your
brain spin as Harnisch's sense of the inner machinations within the human
experience spring into life through the written word. It forces one to question
reality and step into another world wanting the protagonist and his alter ego
to get it together and be okay. The author reveals himself through a series of
alibis in the day-to-day meetings of multiple personalities, a corner of
psychiatry that is hardly understood, and shedding light on the experiences of
schizophrenia in a language that the non-sufferer can understand, albeit from
the author who suffers himself. Not for the faint of heart, this fictionalized
account of a disparate mind triumphs.
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Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Georgie is driven by Ben to an orgy held in a
palatial mansion where Georgie completely indulges his foot fetish with a woman
who resembles Claudia but has a mouth scar that makes her grimace rather than
smile. He then crawls around on salt grains—the pain feels great. Ben asks why
he hurt himself. Georgie tells Ben about the nanny that abused him, to explain
his craziness. Georgie tells Ben he is seeing Claudia. Georgie returns to his
house, but there is no message from Claudia and her house is empty. He stares
at her house for days. He runs into Margaret again, who suggests they get
together. He decides he will pretend he’s not home if she shows up.
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Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
Wednesday Dec 17, 2014
From The Novel: Jonathan
Harnisch: An Alibiography, Second Alibi: The Banality of Life, and Sex, Drugs,
and Schizophrenia [Lover in the Nobody]
Chapter 5.
Emptying His Pockets
Georgie is driven
by Ben to an orgy held in a palatial mansion where Georgie completely indulges
his foot fetish with a woman who resembles Claudia but has a mouth scar that
makes her grimace rather than smile. He then crawls around on salt grains—the
pain feels great. Ben asks why he hurt himself. Georgie tells Ben about the
nanny that abused him, to explain his craziness. Georgie tells Ben he is seeing
Claudia. Georgie returns to his house, but there is no message from Claudia and
her house is empty. He stares at her house for days. He runs into Margaret
again, who suggests they get together. He decides he will pretend he’s not home
if she shows up.
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Thursday Dec 04, 2014
Thursday Dec 04, 2014
A Chance Encounter: Reality?Ben encounters Heidi in a convenience store parking lot. She is in town for a psychiatry convention and decided to get her nails done. He gives her a pedicure in her hotel room. They meet and walk in the neighborhoods and along the beach. Heidi encourages him to write. She skips her conference class and has a bath instead. Ben joins her and gives a foot massage. Ben finds his writing block has gone.
Thursday Dec 04, 2014
Thursday Dec 04, 2014
THE HEALING POWER OF CREATIVITY THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION
Notes:
Complimentary
Outlet
In touch w/ feeling and inner thoughts
Ind/couples/family/group
Express myself
Drawing/painting/sculpting/drama/dance/music …
movies/writing
Self-discovery
Find out who I am
Evaluate and w/ therapist
w/o judgment (artists – very judgmental of work)
Breaks the depressive thoughts
Let go
Trust in self . . . therapist and healing process itself…
Not just for artists . . .
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
Wednesday Nov 26, 2014
How I live with schizophrenia questioning if recovery is
possible through medication therapy and counseling and if there is a conspiracy
of hope but a diagnosis of schizophrenia is not always grounds for despair as
we all have both good and bad days living with schizophrenia.
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Friday Nov 14, 2014
Person-centered therapy (PCT) is also known
as person-centered psychotherapy, person-centered counseling, client-centered
therapy and Rogerian psychotherapy. PCT is a form of talk-psychotherapy
developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. The goal of PCT
is to provide clients with an opportunity to develop a sense of self where they
can realize how their attitudes, feelings and behavior are being negatively
affected. —Wikipedia
Thursday Nov 06, 2014
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