Alan Alda
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
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Is Your Mother a Paranoid, Skitsophrantic?
I don't know if i ever really had a defence against her mental illness until i was almost tyitit. There were just the three of us in the family, and my father and i never discussed or illness, or even acknowledge that she had an illness. But you have to understand, that was a time in the entire culture where you didn't talk about mental illness. So i didn't really have the tools to deal with it. Internally, i was angry that i didn't feel i had a motherand she loved me. It was later, after she died, that i realized, much more than i ever had before, that despite how she saw the world and thought everybody
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