27th June 1991
An extremely complicated picture as I feel
I am closing in on the essential image of my schizophrenia. I
am transparent firstly. Make crazy attempts at some sort of
control over what has become an impossible situation (the man with
the control stick). My brain, my ego is transfixed by nails
as the Christ who could not move freely on the cross without severe
pain. My self respect my ego my feelings about me are crucified
as the Christ. From here on in enlightenment about my condition
creeps in and imagery become even more difficult to find. I
realised that the fear caused by the anger (symbolised by the red
tied beast, muzzled because the anger arises through not being able
to reply to the abuse heaped on me) this fear is causing me to hallucinate
telepathy and E.S.P. which is not there. Or not there when
I am no longer in fear. I express this as best I can through
the mouths on the end of the enormous bent up eyebrows. My
senses are being bent by fear into hallucinations. Like eyelashes
it is something about the bending taking place at the periphery of
my sight. That is why I had been feeling blind all the
time. Anger, "He's mad at you, he's mad", is cause
of fear, the anger being in a latent, unconscious state, but giving
rise to paranoia which in turn gives rise to characteristic schizophrenic
hallucinations and symptoms. But I am still at an acute disadvantage
socially. Can this ever change or will the anger always remain? I
intend to record my progress with more self portraits to add up when
they are all joined together as an important document as to life,
at the end of the twentieth century. "Self Portrait" will
state with depth what it is to be human and schizophrenic.
One 1 1/4 tabs Depixol (3 mg. each) from 22nd June 1991
