{"id":3085,"date":"2011-08-06T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T20:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/08\/nyt-the-job-was-gone-the-gun-was-loaded-and-a-voice-was-saying-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-a-waste-give-up-now-do-it-now%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2011-08-21T10:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T17:26:58","slug":"nyt-the-job-was-gone-the-gun-was-loaded-and-a-voice-was-saying-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-a-waste-give-up-now-do-it-now%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/06\/nyt-the-job-was-gone-the-gun-was-loaded-and-a-voice-was-saying-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-a-waste-give-up-now-do-it-now%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a voice was saying, \u201cYou\u2019re a waste, give up now, do it now.\u201d’"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Learning to Cope With a Mind\u2019s Taunting Voices<\/h1>\n

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Living With Voices:<\/strong>\u00a0Joe Holt, a computer consultant and entrepreneur who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, describes how he’s learned to manage the voices in his head.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0<\/span>BENEDICT CAREY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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LEE\u2019S SUMMIT, Mo. \u2014 The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a voice was saying, \u201cYou\u2019re a waste, give up now, do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a command, not a suggestion, and what mattered at that moment \u2014 a winter evening in 2000 \u2014 was not where the voice was coming from, but how assured it was, how persuasive.<\/p>\n

Losing his first decent job ever seemed like too much for Joe Holt to live with. It was time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I remember then is a knock on the bedroom door and my wife, Patsy, she sits down on the bed and hugs me, and I\u2019m holding the gun in my left hand, down here, out of sight,\u201d said Mr. Holt, 50, a computer consultant and entrepreneur who has a diagnosis of\u00a0schizophrenia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0click to continue reading at the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Learning to Cope With a Mind\u2019s Taunting Voices Living With Voices:\u00a0Joe Holt, a computer consultant and entrepreneur who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia, describes how he’s learned to manage the voices in his head. By\u00a0BENEDICT CAREY LEE\u2019S SUMMIT, Mo. \u2014 The job was gone, the gun was loaded, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}