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Glenn Jarvis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

There were a lot of

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

scanned official looking documents and the one that really disturbed me was like it was graphics it was like a camera which turned around and flashed at me and yeah that really scared me I put my head on the desk and someone said you're all right Glenn and I said I'm just gonna get out of here so that's what I did.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

What do you recall of your first proper psychotic episode after that?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Yeah, it's hard to tell.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

All this sounds a bit like just like my descent into madness, but I reckon I became properly psychotic probably a day, a day and a half after I walked out of Enron.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Became completely delusional and I started hallucinating and kind of hearing voices, not very loud ones.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Yeah, that's a very perceptive question because it was a bit of both.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

It was terrifying.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Like I thought people across the street in the flat were monitoring me somehow so I went over there and it was like I was on some kind of a drug.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I once watched a documentary about this drug called Angel Dust or PCP.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

It was like I had this incredible strength and I was just trying to

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

kicked down the door of this flat across the road.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

It was very definitely interesting times.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I mean, some of my psychosis was just me being psychotic, but yeah, I definitely felt like there was a lot of stuff going on.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So I ended up having three psychotic episodes.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

The first two, I kind of thought, did something occur to me or something like that overseas?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

And I thought, yeah, maybe it had, maybe they'd got at me at work somehow, but...

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

By the time I had my third episode back in Australia, I hadn't been overseas.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I'd just stopped taking my medication.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So I just figured out however this happened, I've got a problem and I've just got to deal with it now.