North (NJC)
> One more coincidence, Mark: this same Dr. Carol North is mentioned several > times in Newsweek's March 11 cover story on schizophrenia. She is described > as "a respected psychiatrist and researcher at Washington University," > apparently first heard voices when she was 16, and tells of how they taunted > her with the "fact" that she wasn't good enough to get into medical school, > couldn't pass an exam, etc. According to her book her symptoms began long before she was 16. She was hearing voices and having hallucinations as early as the time she & I were playmates. That would have made her around 6 or 7 years old. She actually got through 2 years of medical school while experiencing severe chronic symptoms of schizophrenia - voices that told her to kill herself more than once, hallucinations, hearing non-existent helicopters and sometimes even going into near catatonic states. Later in the article, she says that she thought > there were "10,000 universal truths that I needed to understand, that there > were messages in the pattern of paint on the wall and in the pattern of > concrete." > I'm going to have to hunt down this article. Thanks for the heads up, Mary. Mark E in Seattle
