galt54

I *was* in fact helped very much by Blue Öyster Cult`s music. My main problem when I was in the depths of schizophrenia was that I simply *ignored* the real world "out there". When I was psychotic my mind was constantly "looking inwards". I was obsessed with the thoughts going through my own consciousness. I wasted hours and hours on end spinning useless fantasies "in my head". Daydreaming about my fantasy worlds (I created entire fictional parallel universes in my head) was an obsessive-compulsive habit on my part which I seemed to be unable to kick.

But when by chance I began listening to the really *weird* music on my sister´s two BÖC albums in 1973 (their first two albums) the weirdness of that music appealed to me so much that I at long last became motivated to focus for significant spans of time on *something* out there in reality.

Some might say that listening to BÖCs first two albums was just as much a waste of time as daydreaming for hours on end. But it *was* a start. One thing led to another and eventually (with the major assistance of the anti-psychotic medication chlorpromazine) I began focusing on lots of other things out there in reality and eventually I began to function "normally". So I owe a major debt of gratitude to those five heavy metal boys from Stony Brook University!