English Porphyrics and Boston Tea Parties...
Well, King George III was on the British throne at the time that America fought for Independance. And I think its in the genes, since Porphyria is the most likely answer to what is wrong with me, and seem to have started a few Boston Tea parties of my own over the years!
KING GEORGE III. PORPHYRIA. PORPHYRIA IS A HEREDITARY DESEASE CAUSED BY INSUFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF HEMOGLOBIN. SYMPTOMS OF THE DESEASE INCLUDE PHOTOSENSITIVITY, STRONG ABDOMINAL PAIN, PORT WINE COLORED URINE AND PARALYSIS IN THE ARMS AND LEGS. THE INTERRUPTION OF NERVE IMPULSES IN THE BRAIN CAUSES PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS ALSO, AND IN ADVANCED CASES OF THE DESEASE EPILEPTIC CONVULSIONS OCCUR AND THE PATIENT EVENTUALLY LAPSES INTO A COMA.
GEORGE III, BECAUSE OF THIS DESEASE WAS CONSIDERED INSANE. HE WAS THOUGHT INSANE AT A TIME WHEN TREATMENT OF THE INSANE INCLUDED ABUSE. THE KING SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF HIS LIFE IN ISOLATION, OFTEN KEPT IN STRAIGHT JACKETS AND BEHIND BARS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
The treatment of this desease unfortunately has not advanced a great deal since the days of King George. Even diagnosing it is vastly overlooked. I spent many years incarceerated in the nut house, thought to be a hopeless schizoprhenic, and one way or another oddly its only thru my illness that i've been vindicated to a great deal for those years. I would like to say it wouldn't happen in today's modern world, yet I can't. But a nine year old child being given the label of schizorhenic and then to go on to lose around 15 years inside mental hospitals, is another form of abuse when its through medical mismanagement and mis diagnosis. So, for those who've heard me speak out strongly against the psychiactric system, then it is with just cause. This is a small compressed vdo clip about the King and his desease. And despite how physically ailed I am, with everything that has gone before, yes, I feel as George did, when I feel head stuff kick in, "I wish to God I may die, I'm going to be mad." To paraphrase a quote by someone or other on death, its not the dying that worries me, its the bit in between. (click the play button on the console. its not great quality, but it was for compression sake)
And now I have stuff to do, but if the two minute warning for nuclear war goes off, I'll be playing my harpsichord!
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