Alive Inside Page #4

So they want you to

Come now and take them.

No.

Listen, you know it's

Important, okay?

Look how you're acting,

Okay, you need your medication.

Well, Gil is a little different.

As you can see, he's a big guy,

He's a strong guy.

When he gets agitated,

We really need things in place

That are going to work and

Work quickly.

My anger manifests itself in

Very many different ways.

The anger is there, but

Sometimes I can't express it.

I like to think of

Distress as communication.

If you give a highly sedating

Medication to that kind of

A person, you're actually

Taking away the one avenue they

Have to tell you they

Have a problem.

And the problem with that is you

Can turn a person who is engaged

Into a person who

Is withdrawn into themselves

And no longer able to connect to

The world around them.

I wish I had my freedom.

That's the most important part.

That is what makes me the most

Pissed off of all.

That I can't go out.

The thing people lose most

Is those intangibles... The idea

Of choice and control.

We're going to do your

Medicine now, all right?

Just every aspect of

"What am I going to do next?"

Is dictated to you in

Most institutional environments.

Drink some of that.

And music creates

Spontaneity that you cannot

Create in an institution.

It takes you to a place where

You can leave the regimen

And go off in a world

That you create and that you

Connect with on your own terms.

Hi, Gil.

Hi.

I brought you your music

That you requested.

And put it on your

Ears, over your head.

That fit okay?

Yeah.

Okay. And here's your iPod.

All you have to do is click the

Center button, one time.

The magic of your sighs

I think you're all set.

Would you still love...

tomo...

tonight with words

Unspoken

you said that I'm

The only one

There is no pill that

Does that.

And medicine can dim the

Spark or the light, it never

Brings it out.

What they need is engagement,

They need to succeed in

The world around them.

So, you want an iPod, too?

First, what is an iPod?

I don't know anything about

Electronics!

He has his favorite music,

And it's playing.

That's all it is.

It's like your own jukebox.

Okay, let's start.

She wants to see what it

Looks like, the iPod.

Small.

No kidding.

Denise is

A bipolar schizophrenic.

She's been with us for about

Two years.

I like...

Denise doesn't hold back any

Emotion.

Her joy is off the charts.

Unfortunately, so is her

Sorrow and her anger.

So, she's very raw, she's very

Real.

Do you know

What I'd like to do?

Denise is probably

An extreme resident that

We have here.

I'm being emphatic,

And I have a very vivid

Imagination.

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