新SAT阅读必备名人演讲：Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
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新SAT必读演讲：Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough.文中附有翻译讲解，欢迎大家学习。
今日名人
Joshua Walters
Joshua Walters is a bipolar comedian whose work explores language, creativity, beatboxing and madness ...
Why you should listen
Joshua Walters is a comedian, poet, educator and performer. He incorporates elements of spoken word and beatbox into his shows in a mash-up of comedy, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. In the last two years, Walters has performed at theaters and universities throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.
His eclectic combination of performance disciplines and activity as an educator in mental health has given Walters a national platform and audience. In 2002, Walters co-founded the DBSA (Depression Bipolar Support Alliance) Young Adults Chapter in San Francisco, one of the few support groups specifically for mentally ill young adults in the country. As a facilitator, Walters developed humor to address the subject of mental illness, reframing it as a positive. Walters speaks as a mental health educator and has engaged in mental health advocacy at conventions and in classrooms nationwide.
新SAT必读演讲英文字幕
00:11
My name is Joshua Walters. I'm a performer.
00:17
(Beatboxing)
00:26
(Laughter)
00:29
(Applause)
00:33
But as far as being a performer, I'm also diagnosed bipolar. I reframe that as a positive because the crazier I get onstage, the more entertaining I become. When I was 16 in San Francisco, I had my breakthrough manic episode in which I thought I was Jesus Christ. Maybe you thought that was scary,but actually there's no amount of drugs you can take that can get you as high as if you think you're Jesus Christ.
01:12
(Laughter)
01:16
I was sent to a place, a psych ward, and in the psych ward, everyone is doing their own one-man show. (Laughter) There's no audience like this to justify their rehearsal time. They're just practicing.One day they'll get here. Now when I got out, I was diagnosed and I was given medications by a psychiatrist. "Okay, Josh, why don't we give you some -- why don't we give you some Zyprexa. Okay? Mmhmm? At least that's what it says on my pen." (Laughter) Some of you are in the field, I can see. I can feel your noise. The first half of high school was the struggle of the manic episode, and the second half was the overmedications of these drugs, where I was sleeping through high school. The second half was just one big nap, pretty much, in class. When I got out I had a choice. I could either deny my mental illness or embrace my mental skillness.
02:48
(Bugle sound)
02:52
There's a movement going on right now to reframe mental illness as a positive -- at least the hypomanic edge part of it. Now if you don't know what hypomania is, it's like an engine that's out of control, maybe a Ferrari engine, with no breaks. Many of the speakers here, many of you in the audience, have that creative edge, if you know what I'm talking about. You're driven to do something that everyone has told you is impossible.
03:19
And there's a book -- John Gartner. John Gartner wrote this book called "The Hypomanic Edge" in which Christopher Columbus and Ted Turner and Steve Jobs and all these business minds have this edge to compete. A different book was written not too long ago in the mid-90s called "Touched With Fire" by Kay Redfield Jamison in which it was looked at in a creative sense in which Mozart and Beethoven and Van Gogh all have this manic depression that they were suffering with. Some of them committed suicide. So it wasn't all the good side of the illness.
03:54
Now recently, there's been development in this field. And there was an article written in the New York Times, September 2010, that stated: "Just Manic Enough." Just be manic enough in which investors who are looking for entrepreneurs that have this kind of spectrum -- you know what I'm talking about --not maybe full bipolar, but they're in the bipolar spectrum -- where on one side, maybe you think you're Jesus, and on the other side maybe they just make you a lot of money. (Laughter) Your call. Your call.And everyone's somewhere in the middle. Everyone's somewhere in the middle.
04:49
So maybe, you know, there's no such thing as crazy, and being diagnosed with a mental illness doesn't mean you're crazy. But maybe it just means you're more sensitive to what most people can't see or feel. Maybe no one's really crazy. Everyone is just a little bit mad. How much depends on where you fall in the spectrum. How much depends on how lucky you are.
05:35
Thank you.
05:37
(Applause)
新SAT必读演讲参考翻译
00:11
我叫约书亚·沃尔特斯。 我是名表演者。
00:17
(节奏口技)
00:26
(笑声)
00:29
(掌声)
00:33
但远在我成为表演者之前， 我也被诊断为 双向人格障碍症患者。 我把这病症重塑为一个积极方面， 因为我在台上越疯狂， 我变得更加娱乐化。 在旧金山当我16岁时， 我的突破躁狂症发作 那时我想我是耶稣基督。 或许你想到那是很可怕， 但实际上你不用吃任何药丸 你就可以爽得赛似神仙 好似你想到你就是耶稣基督。
01:12
(笑声)
01:16
我被送到一个地方， 精神病院， 在精神病院， 每个人都在演着他们自己的独角戏。 (笑声) 没有像这样的观众 来证明他们的排练效果。 他们只是自己排练。 假若有一天他们会站在这儿。 当我出来时， 我被诊断治疗 我从精神病专家那儿 得到一些药物。 “好吧，乔什，我们为什么不给你开些-- 我们为什么不给你开些再普乐(抗精神病药)。 好吧?嗯? 至少这就是我的笔要说的话。” (笑声) 现场中的你们一些人懂得，我可以理解。 我可以感受到你们的噪音和认同。 高中的第一半学期 是躁狂发作的艰难时期， 下半学期是这些药物的过度滥用， 导致在高中时，我就在睡觉。 下半学期只是一个大午睡，在课堂上非常过瘾。 当我经历之后 我有了一个选择。 我本可以拒绝 我的精神疾病 或者拥抱 我精神上的巧妙之处。
02:48
(喇叭声)
02:52
目前在进行着个运动 要重塑精神疾病作为一个积极面-- 至少在它的轻度躁狂的边缘方面。 现在如果你不知道什么是轻度躁狂， 它好似一个不受控制的引擎， 或许是一个法拉利引擎，没有刹车。 这儿的许多演讲者，观众中的许多人 身处过这种创造性的边缘， 那么你会知道我所讲的是什么。 你被驱动着做些事 每一个人都曾告诉你这事是不可能的。
03:19
有本书--约翰·加特纳著的。 约翰·加特纳写过这本名叫“轻度躁狂边缘”的书 在书里克里斯托夫·哥伦布，特德·特纳和史蒂夫·乔布斯 和所有这些商业头脑 都有这种边缘的竞争优势。 不久前 在90年代中期凯·雷德菲尔德·贾米森著有另一本书 名叫“与激情之火的碰撞” 在书中双向人格障碍症被看做是具有创造性意义 例如莫扎特，贝多芬和梵高 他们都承受着这躁狂抑郁症的痛苦。 他们中一些人自杀了。 所以这不是 这一疾病所有好的一面。
03:54
最近， 这领域有了发展。 在2010年九月份的纽约时报上 写有一篇文章， 它表明： “只是狂躁十足。” 只是要狂躁十足 投资者就是在找寻这样的企业家 他们有这种人格双向频谱-- 大家晓得我所讲的-- 也许不是完全的双向障碍症， 但他们可以感知双向人格频谱-- 在一边， 或许你认为你是耶稣， 而在另一边 或许双向人格会使你变得很富有。 (笑声) 你的命运召唤。你的召唤。 每个人都身处其中。 每个人都身处其中。
04:49
所以或许，大家晓得， 没有 被归为疯狂的这回事， 被诊断患有精神疾病 不意味着你就是疯狂。 但或许它只是意味着 你 对于大多数人所看不到 或所感知到的东西反而更加敏感。 或许没有人是真正的疯狂。 每个人只是有点狂。 多大程度上 这取决于你深陷这人格频谱的程度。 也多少 取决于你有多幸运。
05:35
谢谢。
05:37
(掌声)
