It was a dense forest, and it took me years to come back out.īelarus Free Theatre is the only theatre company in Europe banned by its government on political grounds. I had already disappeared into the forest. I was picked up by the police and a doctor and brought to a closed ward. This raw and imaginative new production explores Lauveng’s controversial text to challenge our perception and understanding of the condition. The first time I met him I was writing in my diary, and I suddenly realized that one of my sentences ended in a different way than I had wanted. Based on the extraordinary memoir by Arnhild Lauveng, it tells a unique personal story of living with and recovering from schizophrenia.
“Drawing on her own terrifying experiences to address the carefully constructed definitions and understandings of the disorder, challenges some entrenched ideas about schizophrenia.Belarus Free Theatre’s Tomorrow I Was Always a Lion is a theatrical investigation into the nature of psychosis and recovery. While sometimes critical of mental health care, she ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness-not the illness incarnate. Though Lauveng was told her disorder was a lifelong sentence, she now calls herself a “former schizophrenic.” No longer on medication, she currently works as a clinical psychologist. Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng’s own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. In these pages, she illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, her relationship to the voices she heard, and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. An extraordinary look into the life and mind of a schizophrenic-a powerful memoir for sufferers, their families, and the professionals who care for them.įor ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time.
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