Bukko Boomeranger

Just a wayward wombat, snorfling through the Gippsland of existence

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@Chris900782016 U say that because UR not A-merkin. There, owning guns is like breathing. USA makes it hard 2 vote but easy 2 buy weapons.

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@Shan900782016 Course, I encounter MI ppl I prefer @ a looong arm's length. Unless my arm has a BIG butterfly net. Or a syringe of Acuphase

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@Shan900782016 Society used2 vu cancer like that. "Let's stay at arm's length from the person." Not so much now. How long B4 same with M.I.?

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@Shan900782016 I liked the line in the essay about how ment. illness is not a "casserole disease." No 1 brings hot dishes when U fall unwell

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@Hugo900782016 Re: "prodigal" -- that word works in this situation Hugo. Jeremy was like the prodigal son from the Bible story 4 his dad.

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@amanda900782016 Do U know fatuous ppl in real life? Does something in schizophrenia lead to fatuousness? Is our reality like a jest 2 pts?

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@amanda900782016 He did come off as a tad fatuous. A word we toss around AXing psych patients' presentation which is rarely used by most ppl

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 2 many patients alienate everyone around them so they have 2 go it alone. Jeremy was a nice enuf bloke so he was not abandoned.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 Good example of Recovery Model -- a MI person's milieu got him as high-functional as poss. Good he didn't burn all his bridges.

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@nurs90078 I saw this as a therapy-thru-family film as well as coping via art. It was ppl around Jeremy (inc. a nurse) who pulled him up.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@arya9007816 Glad U liked it. I've had Sunnyboys cuts in my CD 'brary since early 2000s. "Alone With U" part of my "Jangle Pop" playlist.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@mel900782016 Interesting concept: Oxley could be paranoid of something TRUE. Reality-based delusional thinking. He had a psycho analysis.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 OK, this morning the link via Twitter works. The movie is also accessible through a link on the Assessment course's LMS.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd), Brian Wilson, Jeremy Oxley: which other famous schizo musos can we list? (Franz Liszt was not)

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 The Sunny movie trailer I saw embedded in a 2014 Sydney news article makes Jeremy Oxley seem like Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@nurs90078 Anyone have trouble starting the Sunnys? I did. They were a good Aussie post-punk band. Here's a Youtube: https://t.co/pVVFXx5OLo

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@Chris900782016 @helenS90078 If great artists had been medicated, would their work still be worthy? Does Syd Barrett + meds = Ø Pink Floyd?

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@Chris900782016 @helenS90078 Reams of psychoanalysis has been written about Van Gogh, tho. All posthumous. Not much help when he was alive.

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@Chris900782016 @helenS90078 What Dx would apply to cutting off an ear? I'd like to do a DSM formulation on Van Gogh. MayB for extra credit?

[Bukko Boomeranger @Bukko900782016]

@Chris900782016 @helenS90078 I got a sense of schizophrenia from the Van Goghs. His wavery brush strokes suggested visual hallucinations.