Richard

Were you getting some insight by watching the other people in the unit?

The thing about schizophrenia is that its symptoms appear so publicly.

It's enacted so publicly and sometimes it freaks people out.

Does that mean schizophrenic people are more likely to run into the criminal justice system as a result of that?

So once your mind cleared up a bit while on medication, once that happens typically, do you then have to sort of come to terms with what's been happening to you over however long, however many months and years that have been passed in and out of the psychosis of schizophrenia?

Do friendships formed that you'd formed before your psychosis surfaced, do they tend to fall away?

Yeah, they do.

So how did you get a job after having gone through these episodes and then being on regular medication?

What sort of an insight does it give you into humanity?

I know that's a big question, but having gone from the highly paid, steroidal world of international finance to living in supported accommodation, working with people who are suffering from such things like yourself, in some ways it might seem like a smaller life, but in other ways it might seem like a much larger one as well.

What do you think about that, Glenn?

Then there was the self-help rehab program you invented for yourself at the local bowling club, the local bolo.

How did you sort of creep into that?

Do you think of it like that?

I'm just thinking about those people at the Bolo.

You know, those institutions of sort of quiet sociability in Australia, they've been disappearing over the last 20, 30 years or so.

They seem to have all these benefits that aren't always immediately obvious for people in their lives.

Yeah, we had a great friendship after that.

Like you say, the next step was to conquer the world of ACT squash.

Tell me how far you were able to get with that.