Thomas Edison was Mentally Ill

[Newton's Cat]

As a child, and as an adult, Thomas Edison exhibited clear signs of being afflicted by
an inherited mental illness. He "played up" at school and was declared to be
"uneducatable". Once he even set fire to a train! As an adult he exhibited clear signs
of "not being normal". When his uninsured laboratory burnt down - his life's work going
up in flames - he stood watching the blaze from a hill. He commented to one of his staff:

"Doesn't it look beautiful?"

He had a bizarre habit of laying down on the floor and going to sleep - and often stayed
up for several days obsessively working on his latest crazy idea.

Yup - Edison was a looney.

All children who exhibit similar symptoms to Edison should be rounded up and
medicated!

Then there's Einstein - another nutter!

[The schizo warrior]

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[nexus]

Where ever greatness is found, madness is not far away!
Einstein was schizotypal, his son schizophrenic through and through.
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[debbie]

Post by nexus
Where ever greatness is found, madness is not far away!
Einstein was schizotypal, his son schizophrenic through and through.
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Madness does not come after greatness but synthetically induced
madness is a possibility to consider, though.

Madness comes to commoners & normaloes who cannot accept greatness.









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[nexus]

It is an old expression which highlights relatedness, how madness runs in
families. It is not meant to be taken literally as a progression.
Historically many famous and infamous folks had family members and relations
who suffered from "madness" of one variety or another, dependant upon how
madness was defined due to the historical socio-political environs in which
disease and disorder were constructed. Not only that, but many of these
characters, be they artists or scientists were loopy themselves.
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Post by debbie

Post by nexus
Where ever greatness is found, madness is not far away!
nexus

Madness does not come after greatness but synthetically induced
madness is a possibility to consider, though.
Madness comes to commoners & normaloes who cannot accept greatness.
http://www.geocities.com/asian_kim_2001

[chinesebastardprick88]

Post by nexus
Where ever greatness is found, madness is not far away!
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madness is a possibility to consider, though.

Madness comes to commoners & normaloes who cannot accept greatness.

(TRUE)........!

[Lone Deranger]

Post by nexus
Where ever greatness is found, madness is not far away!
Einstein was schizotypal, his son schizophrenic through and through.
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IMHO, Einstein wasn't schizotypal. Where did you hear this?

m.

[nexus]

From a number of sources, most recently from Horrobin (neuroscientist and
schizophrenia researcher).
There is a chapter in "The madness of Adam and Eve" (2001), where a
discussion of the link between greatness and madness (including Einstein)
and many other greats, their relations, politics, incarceration and eugenics
ensues.
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