When A Beautiful Mind Goes Wrong

A beautiful mind is a fragile thing, Take care of your mental health like you would your physical health.I always refer to the mind as a light bulb. Giving light to thoughts and ideas but will blow out and shatter if not properly or over used. Kanye tells Leno he is ashamed and apologetic regarding the Taylor Swift incident and that he wants to take time off to self reflect. The first step to getting help is acknowledging you need help. Kudos to Kanye for that one! Which brings me to my point, I often see the talents and gifts of great people lost in utter confusion and imbalance. Brilliance in over drive causing a break down in the nervous and mental areas of our fragile state of being. I can remember telling a friend I could see her light "bulb about to shatter" because she was mentally distraught and her nervous system was shot. That she needed to chill because unlike being able to replace a bulb, we cannot replace our minds and often find ourselves the same as before even with medicine purposefully intending to repair us. I have observed(from afar) strange behavior in brilliant people such as Prince, Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson , R. Kelly and now Kanye West and wondered, "What the hell is going on with them?!". When amazing and unique things flow excessively from one person consistently the way they do these people, they are without a doubt phenomenal. Often times there is a negative imbalance of what to do with and how to relate to the gift(and others). they lose perspective and start to spiral out of control. In the case of John Forbes Nash, whom Russel Crowe betrayed in the film A beautiful Mind, paranoid schizophrenia was evident cause of his downfall and I wonder with the rise of if this illness can it be the case with others. Such is the is the same observation I see in up close and personal relationships around me including myself. There are many facets that come into play here,but in the end taking care of one's mental health is a MUST! Therapy such as counseling, psychiatry (if you dare!)meditation, yoga,spiritual, self reflection, etc. I think it essential to have peace in your life with EVERYTHING that has EVER affected you in your life, to have a happy and healthy mental state of being. When I take a bulb that has blown out and hear and feel the wire loosely dangling inside, thus is how I perceive the mind state of a person(s) who has allowed themselves to push themselves too hard with out care. Who has gotten lost in all the bravado of their very existence and right to live an ordinary life because they have a gift or talent they cannot contain or control for it is a very big part of their being. Sometimes you have to step back away from it all to keep control of it all. To keep from getting lost in it all in order to stay the master in all of it.