But I– A couple of years ago, a man came up to me after… my show. He had an opinion. Now, in the show, I’d spoken about taking antidepressant medication, and he had an opinion on that.
Now, interestingly, I’d also spoken about how unhelpful unsolicited advice is, in mental health plan, but he mustn’t have heard that bit.
He said, “you shouldn’t take medication, because you’re an artist. It’s important that you feel.” He said, “if Vincent van Gogh had have taken medication, we wouldn’t have sunflowers.”
I never, ever, ever thought that my art history degree would ever come in handy.
I tore that man a college debt-sized new arsehole.
I said, “good opinion, mate, except that he did medicate. He self-medicated a lot. He drank a lot. He even nibbled on his own paints.
He didn’t just paint sunflowers, he did quite a few portraits of psychiatrists. Not even random ones. Psychiatrists who were treating him. And medicating him.
And there’s one particular portrait of one particular psychiatrist, and he’s holding a flower, and it isn’t a sunflower. It’s a foxglove. And that foxglove forms a part of a medication that van Gogh… took for epilepsy.
And that derivative of the foxglove plant medi-fucking-cation…”
I must’ve skipped a dose that day ‘cause I was feeling.
“The derivative of the foxglove, if you overdose out a bit, you know what happens? You can experience the color yellow a little too intensely.
“So perhaps… we have the sunflowers precisely because… van Gogh medicated.
“What do you honestly think, mate?” I said. “That creativity means that you must suffer? That is the burden of creativity? Just so you can enjoy it?
“Fuck you, mate. If you like sunflowers so much, buy a bunch and jerk off into a geranium.”]
To be honest.. if more children were shown from birth that they are loved, cared for, and listened no matter their gender we might not have some of the problems we have now.
steve jobs leaving his illegitimate daughter lisa brennan jobs so disconnected from objective reality that she just released a memoir detailing her fathers psychotic behavior toward her and like apparently i guess literally didn’t even realize it would (appropriately) be perceived as insane abusive treatment and was like intending that he come off as some kind of difficult but brilliant morally grey antihero is one of the saddest things i’ve heard recently
“When her mother found a beautiful house and asked Mr. Jobs to buy it for her and Lisa, he agreed it was nice — but bought it for himself and moved in with his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs.”
this man was literally fucking evil and the fact that she doesn’t realize how terribly she & her mother were treated is…. actually really depressing
“If a boy loves princesses and a girl loves baseball, that’s not indicative of their sexuality,“ Fox says. “It’s indicative of their communication and creative expression. We can’t limit children by telling them how they should play.”
Like god I can’t get over this!! The intelligence the perceptiveness the eloquence!!!!!!!!!! She’s incredible we shall stan until the end of time
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