Six Schizophrenic Brothers

[quote] would you have children of your own?

The voices in my head tell me you’re asking a trick question.

This was a great book

Six could be a handy number when it comes to problem solving.

Five were just pretending, they liked the attention the first nutter received.

The first review on the link says it's a trumped up piece of shit documentary.

Shicsh shcishophrenic brothersh.

That’s a lot of brothers

12 kids, 36 voices.

Comment from IMDB

[quote] What a hideously biased documentary that never actually says much of anything and was clearly made to give the martyr of the family attention. I felt so angry at the family's lack of willingness to dig deep and acknowledge the causes of the "schizophrenia", not to mention the ability to simply diagnose in order to disregard the very real trauma this family was dealing with. If you want to see a huge case study of denial and delusion, give this a watch. I question the ethics of the filmmaker as well, especially as they film the "sick" siblings in dark, dingy basements and seem to have asked them to act strangely in order to make them seem worse off than they were. The children's worship of their parents (who were clearly emotionally unavailable and distant to the point that the children believed that crying was a sign of mental illness) is almost cultlike. Was completely unsurprised to see in the credits that the family paid for this to be made.

Only one of my siblings is schizoaffective and it made several of the rest of us not want to gamble on having biological kids, lest we pass along those cursed genes.

Only two of the next generation children are featured in the doc. The one male, now 22, developed anxiety about the possibility of becoming schizophrenic at an early age & eagerly awaits his 26th birthday, believing he’ll only feel assured of escaping the family legacy if he’s still sane at that age. Poor kid.

So it’s about an only child with six personalities?

The smart brother would’ve already embraced anti-natalism for the simple purpose of reducing future suffering in the world. Not to mention, he’d be preventing suffering of his own bloodline.