(March 22, 2015 at 6:20 pm)TubbyTubby Wrote: Just watched the first episode of this. I love Louis' style of interview and he manages to get responses from mentally ill patients where others would fail. This one is from a secure hospital in Ohio and is a great insight into a world that most of us will never see.
Revealingly, even though the documentary made no claims to a common issue, 3 of the 4 patients in this episode were religiously delusional. One young chap had clearly been involved in evangelical work, whether it was a cause or effect of his obvious mental state I couldn't really work out. He was in a bad way though, and his mother appeared to have her own set of issues as well.
Anyone watch it? I look forward to the next episode.
The cause of the evangelical guys mental illness in my opinion stems from him taking a lot of LSD at a young age.
I can only remember 2 delusional people who had mentioned religion, the evangelical guy and the woman who said she was Jesus.
And I think there were 5 people I remember, the guy who slit his dads throat, the evangelical guy, the jesus woman, the guy who beat the cop with a pole to try and get president obama elected, the black guy who shot 2 strangers in a bar.
The episode reminded me of this woman I used to see when I used to catch the bus, I remember her talking to a man once randomly talking about how people can't follow other people or something odd and he just moved his daughter away from her. She also has this collection of about 100 key rings on her handbag, and she used to look at me so angrily and suspiciously sometimes I'd just be thinking please don't be hearing voices telling you to kill me.
The people in the episode were sort of like the stereotypical people you do not want to live near.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
