Stephen Fry has disclosed that he attempted suicide last year and only survived the “close run thing” when a colleague found him unconscious after he had taken “huge” quantities of pills and vodka.
Fry suffered a nervous breakdown in 1995 while he was appearing in the West End play Cell Mates and disappeared for several days, coming close to suicide.
In 2006 he made a two-part television documentary called Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in which he spoke to other celebrities including Carrie Fisher and Tony Slattery about their own problems with the illness. In the programme he also disclosed that he had first attempted suicide aged 17 by taking an overdose.
In 2011 he said of his illness: “The fact that I am lucky enough not to have it so seriously doesn’t mean that I won’t one day kill myself, I may well.”
I hope he is on lithium!
Unless he is doing a Carrle Fisher!
Atacama Desert of Chile.
As one of the firm advocates of Lithium, he thought he needed to be where much of the world's Lithium could be cheaply produced.
As a lover of wild life he soon finds himself in a difficult position especially as much of the Lithium would be used in batteries for cars such as the $100,000 plus Tesla and your iPhones and Tablets.
Chile could produce lithium cheaply by using water and in a desert where the water is scarce this creates a problem: especially for the Flamingos. A third of the lake water is now used for extracting the Lithium.
All photos © Am Ang Zhang 2015
There is a view that the water will run out and with that the Flamingos will perish. Just a worry especially as The Cockroach Catcher was not sure if any Lithium will be left for Manic Depressives (Sorry: Bipolars!)
A reprint:
A reprint:
Chile: Salar de Atacama & Bipolar Disorder.
Some of the world’s most important deserts are around the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and here in Chile
Our guide told us that as the snow melts in the Andes
Amazing what a desert can yield!
Please spare some lithium for Bipolar Disorder though.
Lithium Bipolar and Nanking
77 years ago, the people of Nanking , China 's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking . The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China and Japan Japan Japan
In 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army, captured Nanking on Dec. 13. No one knows the exact toll the Japanese soldiers exacted on its citizens, but a postwar Allied investigation put the numbers at more than 200,000 killed and at least 20,000 women and girls raped in the six weeks after the city fell.Nanking and the brutalization of an entire populace that eventually convinced Japanese military leaders that they needed to contain the chaos. Japanese soldiers began rounding up women and forcing them to serve as sex slaves in so-called comfort stations.
This is what most historians believe. But not in Japan China Nanking .
Not surprisingly, all this minimizing and denial enrages the Chinese and others in Asia . But this is a familiar pattern.
On November 9, 2004, Iris Chang (張純如), who was propelled into the limelight by her 1997 best-selling account of the Nanking Massacre “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II”, committed suicide. Earlier she had a nervous breakdown and was said to be at the risk of developing Bipolar illness. She was on the mood stabilizer divalproex and Risperidone, an antipsychotic drug commonly used to control mania. There was a detailed report in San Francisco Chronicle.
Lithium for Manic-Depressive Disorder (Bipolar Disorder):
6 comments:
Anna :o]
... but I never liked the word 'underclass' ... or 'subhuman', two of the same vocabulary, because of the degradation to humanity that is associated with such expressions. Surely, humanity with all it's ills, is still less vicious than that, or am I underestimating our 'exclusive' arrogance?
Well done, as usual, CC, you've made me think, and stirred some emotions :-)
I am glad you liked the portrait. Photography portraiture is difficult as it was only a split second thing unlike painting which often takes many sittings (painting from photo is the modern way and that is why much of the BP stuff is not good in my humble opinion.
Saw One Man, Two Guvnors at the National: all the classes were bad----Public School class, butler class, mafia class, lawyer class, waiters class.
... one of the most amazing, and very disturbed, paintings done from a photo, is [Gorky's mother and child]. He was influenced by Cezanne and Picasso, but that painting has something, a life of it's own, despite it's artist death long ago ... I find it scary and very disturbing ... Gorky needed you CC, check him out :-)
It is the same with many Catholic countries and Portugal is one of them.
He was given some bread so from under his seat he pulled out some raw garlic cloves and ate the bread with it. He is going to live a long life.
My old man was doing good, much good.
COI: I did give him some money, after the photo of course.