Comedian Joshua Walters, who's bipolar talks about being mentally 'ill' and mentally 'skilled'. I've always been fascinated by societal need to label a person with a mental illness and that desire to pigeonhole and correct that disease. Our obsession with wanting to soothe these so-called sickness back to normal - then again where is that fine line that divides normality, manic and creative genius or is there? He might be right to say there's no such thing as being crazy, just that some others are more sensitive. Or that everyone is just a little bit mad. A little bit mad wouldn't be so bad. Well, this talk isn't particularly a performance (in the regular sense) but I think it sparks some thinking in me, which I wanted to share here today.
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