Can we help Das Goravani?

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To GJ List Members;

Someone is going to have to intervene in this situation. I don't think this

is completely the result of someone sitting around drinking and feeling

sorry for themselves. Warnings are going out here. I've seen this before.

He is talking about Autism, I think he might mean Schizophrenia.

People who have these brain changes can go ignored until it is too late.

Everybody thinks they've got it together or they should know better.

 

Personally, I no longer think these are moral lapses. We are tending to

think he has to resolve certain issues spiritually but now I think this is a

serious untreated or misdiagnosed health problem.

The world is not making complete sense to him anymore. I wouldn't be so

quick to pass it off as a phase he is going through or entirely because of

drinking.

He talks about "being looked at funny, needing a mast, someone to guide him

and many other things that are leading me to this conclusion.

quote from one letter he wrote to the list recently:

 

"You have to know that the downs, and ups, are both extreme. The downs are

very extreme. I won't go deeply into it. It is much worse than the average

"depressed". It is more like shaking in the corner. It borders on

schizophrenic behavior, psychosis, etc. It's really bad."

 

It is not getting better. He doesn't understand why no one will return his

calls and talk to him anymore. He has indicated he is disintegrating.

Brilliant man, spiritual person, what can we do?

I am on the east coast and can not go there, Can someone suggest what to do?

Please believe me the worst case scenario can happen here and people will

just think he did it in despair or because he couldn't accept his

circumstances.

It is really a cycle here, he's driving people away, he can't help it, they

go away and he needs their help more than ever at this time in his life.

 

He has written about being afraid, shaking in the corner, strict mental

control, sitting in a stare". He has said some things I think are "out of

character", which is what I am concerned about.

He may need an MRI and a doctor to find out what can be done.

 

Das Goravani needs swift, competent medical help. I'm praying he gets it

right away.

 

Das, I'm only saying this on list because I care that you get well and I

want to know who can get you to a good neurologist with some of the symptoms

and problems you've been writing about.

Lydia

 

 

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"Das Goravani" <>

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Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:25 PM

[GJ] Solutions out of reach

 

 

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> When I try to think of solutions, like, go to a store which is lively, and

> set up a booth in the corner with owners permission, for doing free charts

> maybe, and just say positive things, and be lively and bubbly, I think,

OK,

> that could work, I'll make friends, but the fact is, that as I see the

> woman, who listen then walk away, and who never call, I will suffer

extreme

> inner pain, which I'll take home, and which will make me cry. If I reach

out

> to them, they ALWAYS reject me, never call, use excuses, look at me funny.

I

> obviously don't know how to "do it right", hence I think I'm autistic.

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> These days you can buy a shotgun easily. You can saw all the barrel also

> easily. Take it to the woods, and blow your brain via your mouth sky high.

I

> saw a picture of a guy who did this- nothing above the top lip remained.

> Pretty total. End of problem.

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> The pain is great. 8 years of trying to figure it out. 8 years of pain and

> longing. So many recommendations. No humans in my life. I can't believe we

> are to be so alone. They tell me I'm loveable, but I"m alone. It's so

hard.

> I should'nt write this but I am overly compelled to say something.

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> Please forgive me. I have to write or do something. The quiet and lack of

> possibilities or answers is knawing away at me, day after day.

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> One day they'll realize that some people need another to be their leader,

> guide, whatever, their balance, their mast, their rudder. THey'll realize

> it's a condition that some have. It will be too late for me. I didn't get

> it. Nobody was there to do it. I was wasted, allowed to go to waste,

despite

> whatever gifts I have left to offer.

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> Don't get freaked out in writing back. I probably won't buy a shotgun

> anytime soon. I will continue to sit in a mess, drink, empty fridge, cry,

> wander around, collapse on bed, check email hoping for answers, hope that

> something happens, nothing will, one day, one day, one day, end it.

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> Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya; Hare Krishna; Om Tat Sat

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