Mad to Be Normal Page #3

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I can see why you two, you know,

gravitated towards each other.

Maybe.

You've got a lovely smile.

Pffft.

Yeah, it comes from

somewhere deep, you can tell.

Now you're fibbing.

Yeah, it's the

truth, it's the truth.

I like you too Jim.

Well, thank you.

So I'll get back to me...

Thanks for talking to me Angie.

Thank you.

Angela, Angelis.

Boing, boing.

Do you remember that when

you were kid, the angelus?

Don't you find that time is

completely different in here?

Like outside it's

like, whurrrrrrr.

In here it's calm, calm.

Except sometimes when

I hear these voices

and they start telling me

to do things, you know,

like, they start in a whisper

and then they get louder

and louder and then,

like my head is going to explode

and I say f*** it, f***

it, f*** it, alright!

I'll do it!

What do they

tell you to do, Jim?

Oh, you don't want to know

what they tell me to do.

Sometimes they have a

bit of a laugh with you,

sometimes they say

like obscene things.

Other times they're

telling you to do things

that you just know,

you're just like f*** no,

don't want to do that.

And they're always

laughing afterwards.

Yeah, you see we made

you f***ing do it.

Hmmm.

Anyway, today is a good

day, it's a good day.

No voices today?

No voices today, no

writing on the walls.

Well,

no.

Anyway, thanks for

listening to me Angie.

Erm, if,

if Ronnie went away, I

don't know what I'd do.

I know.

Because, like,

sometimes you know

this thing in my head

tells me that if

you take him away,

I don't mean you to

take this personally

but that if you take him away,

then they're kinda telling me

that I'd have to take you away.

Loonies, loonies!

Loonies, loonies!

Loonies.

I'm 73, I've never

ever taken drugs,

and, well, I've heard

LSD sends you mad.

You're among friends.

What have you to lose?

But, I don't want to go mad.

LSD is controversial,

but it can have a

profoundly valuable

and therapeutic effect

if you take it in a

controlled environment.

It might help you deal

with your memories.

It might just unblock them.

People who've revisited

memories like you,

sometimes it just, they

can find an inner peace,

they can face up to it.

What do you think,

do you trust me?

I do trust you, yes.

Want to try it?

No,

but, I will.

Alright.

Here.

That's it, a couple drops.

There you go.

Just try and relax.

How long does it take?

Could be 10 minutes,

could be a couple hours.

See what happens.

- Nothing yet.

- No.

I think I'm seven.

I can smell something.

I can't, I can't.

Please, please, please, please.

Ahhh!

Please, please, please!

- No!

- I'm sittin' with you.

It's me, Sydney.

You're alright, you're safe.

It's me and Ronnie.

Some terrible things

happen in the name of love.

Well I love you Ronnie.

Do you love me?

Love's a terrible burden

to inflict on someone.

What's the matter?

You know Syd's mother died

'cause she loved him so much?

I don't think my mother

would've died to save me.

She didn't even want anyone

to know she was pregnant.

Maybe she didn't want me.

Certainly don't remember

her ever kissing me,

or holding me or puttin'

her arms around me.

Our house was not

a place of love.

Where was your dad?

Doctors said it was overwork,

nowadays they'd call

it a nervous breakdown.

So you were alone

with your mother?

I've been holding one

hand or another ever since.

[father breathing rapidly

I've spent my life

listening to people

that no one else

gives a f*** about.

You sound angry.

I'm not angry, I'm just

tired, I just need sleep.

I need to go away to

Glasgow to see Suzie.

She's still under the weather.

I'll come with you.

Nah, I don't think

that's a good idea,

she's really not herself.

Please.

Oh, for f***'s sake,

it's not a family outin'.

My daughter's ill.

She just needs to spend

a bit of time with me.

I didn't tell

you to leave them.

How are you?

I'm okay, Dad.

I don't want to talk about it.

Okay.

You seen your granny lately?

Last week.

Didn't we, Suzie?

Tell Dad what happened.

Tell me what?

Granny showed us a

little doll she made.

It's got real hair and

is dressed like you.

She's called it Ronald

and sticks pins in it.

She says she wants to

give you a heart attack.

She won't though, will she Dad?

No.

However hard she tries.

I'm pleased you haven't

brought that slut with you.

Susan, elbows please, you're

not at your mothers now.

Right, which slut

would that be, Mother?

Don't talk with your mouth full.

Don't behave like a

savage, use your knife.

Suzie tells me that you, um,

you made a wee doll.

Says you call it Ronald

and stick pins in it,

trying to give me

a heart attack.

Susan you're spilling your tea.

Tell me about the wee doll.

I think it's time

to go, come on.

I don't

quite know how to do it.

It's at midnight.

But that's

alright, you know.

- It's this way.

- Yeah.

You see, you know

what, you know I think?

- Yeah.

- Anxiety.

That's not good.

Nah, anxiety is

no good for you.

I know, well thank you.

No, no, I know

what that feels like.

Yeah, yeah I'm

feeling anxious now,

but I just don't know how,

how to tell him that

this doesn't work.

- Well, look.

What would you?

- Well, you did your best.

- I tried.

You spent a lot

of hours on this.

I've spent three

hours today doing this.

Three hours.

No, none of these

things fit that.

I don't understand them.

I used to, but my

memory's gone a bit.

I thought you could help,

I thought you would help,

but never mind.

The only thing

I know how to do

is read the front

of it, you know.

When you think about

it, really, you know,

when we've got

watches and clocks,

do you know what

the first clock was?

- No.

The Moon,

was the first clock.

Is that a clock?

Yeah, well that's how

With the dial on it?

Yeah, that's right.

Well, no.

People used to

look up at the moon

and they'd say, oh

it's night, it's day.

That was the first

kind of clock.

And then we

developed these things.

So it never had an

instrument going round

on the moon?

- No, no.

- It was all in the...

No.

What's wrong with

you, old sport?

You don't have to be afraid.

Hey, what's wrong with you?

Get away from me.

Get away.

Silence is golden.

Hey what's the

matter with you?

What's wrong with me?

Yeah, let's give

him some space.

He's got space.

Well let's give him some

You leave him alone.

Let's give him

some more, come on.

I am the alpha,

I am the omega,

I'm the beginning and the end.

Do you understand

what I'm saying?

- I understand.

- Alright.

But come on, let's, let'

Unhand me, sir.

Jim, let's go have a smoke.

Jim. Come on,

let's go have a smoke.

Jim, let go.

Let go.

- Jim!

- Let go!

Let her go, let's

go have a drink.

- Thank you very much.

- Cheers.

Thank you so much.

- It's all worth it.

That's not as far as me.

Hi.

Boo.

You come again.

You're a cult figure

here in the USA, Dr. Laing.

Are you surprised

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