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Re: The Lighthouse
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2019 Dec 22, 20:03 -0000
From: Francis Upchurch
Date: 2019 Dec 22, 20:03 -0000
Thanks Rommel, As a physician of over 45 years experience I can confirm that mental illness, especially severe depression is more common than most people think and many think far worse than a broken leg and other physical problems. I suspect Sumner had schizophrenia, rather than bipolar depression , although the 2 can co-exist. I have met many sailors who have both and some find solace and cure at sea. (See first chapter of Moby Dick). My occasional dark deep blues usually disappear in a fair wind with amiable crew. Politics, like last 3 years in UK make it all worse. (Horror) Hobbies such as CelNav cure many ills in my experience. Keep it going Frank, it is an important social service. NavList helps me keep standing and thinking. If you don't use it, you'll loose it. Carry on fellow sufferers. Best wishes for Xmas and New year. Francis -----Original Message----- From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Rommel John Miller Sent: 22 December 2019 19:32 To: francisupchurch@gmail.com Subject: [NavList] Re: The Lighthouse Amazing, a battered crater on the moon is named in honor of a man whose life was battered through his committal to "lunatic" asylum. As a mentally ill disabled veteran of the Navy I too wonder if I won't be one day involuntarily to a mental "health" ward in a VA Hospital one day. Last night I watch the seventh episode in the Crown series season 3 on Netflix, it was about the 1969 moon launch. In the episode Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh is going through a mid-life crisis of identity and ineffectualness -- it isn't easy being the second banana and male to the big cheese who is female. The actor played the role quite well, and showed genuine disinterest in the things in his life -- the classic signs of depression, I will say no more about this episode or series, but it is amazing to see that the Royals are uniquely human and subject themselves to human faults and foibles, which I think is the whole reason behind the series in the first place. But thank you for sending this picture and of talking about Sumner, Christmas is a particularly hard time for a lot of people not just the mentally ill, and it is good to know that great navigators and sailors themselves suffered with the disease and hopelessness of mental illness. Rommel John Miller : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Lighthouse-Miller-dec-2019-g46528