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Aug. 04 2010, 11:46 am
But didn't Van Gogh cut off his ear, perhaps in an attempt to cut off the voices in his head from his being bi-polar? I saw this in an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" for full disclosure. But in "Vincent and the Doctor" he had both ears, or am I wrong? |
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Aug. 05 2010, 5:50 pm
Quote: grigori @ Aug. 02 2010, 5:17 pm | Then Leela would have been lost with Gallifrey, along with the Doctor's mom. I really wish it would be Susan. What a WAY cool full-circle story if the Doctor could run into his grand-daughter living out her life on Earth! |
Maybe Carol Ann Ford will be up for an episode in 2013?
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Aug. 08 2010, 3:37 pm
Quote: Challengerdyer1 @ Aug. 04 2010, 11:46 am | But didn't Van Gogh cut off his ear, perhaps in an attempt to cut off the voices in his head from his being bi-polar? I saw this in an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" for full disclosure. But in "Vincent and the Doctor" he had both ears, or am I wrong? |
He still had a few years left after the Doctor and Amy visited him. Greatly aggravated by years of absinthe abuse and alcohol (no one related lifestyle to mental disturbances back then), Van Gogh was on a manic bender the night he cut off his ear. Supposedly, he was originally gunning for his buddy Gaugin, a love-hate relationship (untreated bi-polars seem to have no other kind).
It's also posited by many neurologists now-a-days that Van Gogh also experienced--as do I--partial complex seizures, a condition that often overlaps bi-polar tendencies. I can tell you first-hand that the mind is capable of creating hallucinations as vivid as drugless LSD trips. The difference between these seizures and schizophrenia is, schizophrenics tend to believe hallucinations as but part of larger delusions. To the otherwise sane, having hallucinations you know can't be real is enough to drive you crazy! Dosteovsky had 'em, too. It's said to be the "Saints'" disease--or the Shaman's disease--those who seem to connect with another world and yet are otherwise sane and intelligible. (If you know how to spin it for your benefit. Van Gogh did not, and suffered for it.)
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