Madness For Love

[Nico Sadiq]

Adelightful seascape done in pixel art, the characters are well crafted and the color balance is beautiful for the setting. While some smaller elements can get murky and the use of blackscreen for dramatic effect is a bit high, it works well.

Herding players towards one love interest or another is more compelling than the traditional harem approach of some visual novels. Save sequences are in good spots, but players might feel that time passes too quickly as a result.

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Very pretty. Somehow both clean and smokey at the same time. Spicy carnation is the most prominent floral on me, with a hint of the peony reading more as something bright and fresh rather than as the fruity floral I'm used to. I do smell the sandalwood, especially in the bottle, but it's not a heavy incense smell at all. I don't actually get rose. I was expecting this to be very pink and girly. It's not really that. Surprisingly lacking in sweetness, but still lovely. I'd say, if you are a fan of carnation and/or light incense, this is one to check out. It really is quite lovely, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it ages.

All the notes shine - the peony note is so lush and beautiful. The rose is also there and softened by the peony. The carnation lends a spiciness in the background. The carnation is quite subdued on me. The sandalwood is also there adding a depth to the blend but it is the smoke that really brings it all together and adds a spark. The smoke almost adds a warmth. It's like a freshly blown out candle or a touch of incense. It adds a sophistication to the scent and turns it into something quite beautiful.

On me, the pink carnation is the star of the show throughout wear, backed by some candlesmoke (slightly tinged with beeswax, but more smoke than beeswax, and the smoke here is not acrid in the slightest), and peony, with just a little bit of rose and sandalwood. But if I did not know to go looking for them, I wouldn't even notice that rose and sandalwood were in this scent! I think this may share the same pink carnation found in High-Strung Daisies, but here, it's accompanied by notes that make this a far more grown-up blend. This is NOT a beeswax scent for those who saw candlesmoke and thought it might veer into beeswaxy floral territory. It is very much a floral scent with far more pink carnation than anything else!

Something in this has smelled odd in its first few seconds of life on my skin for both of its tests. But Love Let Her quickly shifts into clovey pink carnations, pink roses, a blush of peony, and a little dusty smoke.

A bit powder puff at first, rosey. It's not smoky on me, I forgot smoke was a note, actually. The sandalwood behaves and adds slight, soft woods. I'm not getting any weirdness from it. It dries down to a pretty floral sandalwood combo, velvet is a great term for it, clean and soft. Coincidentally wore a velvet skirt with a ditsy floral top today and it fits the mood.

A bit timeless, although I could see this pairing well with a Sweet Lolita wardrobe. It's youthful and springy but I wouldn't say childish, any age group could pull it off really. Reminds me of Vasilissa a little bit. Elegant, classy, work appropriate. The final drydown has me considering a bottle.

I found this a lovely floral, mostly carnation-rose, with decent throw and long wear for something so floral heavy. I didn't struggle at all with soapy or powdery notes, which are often issues for me. I hardly get sandalwood at all, but that's a note I usually really like; someone who doesn't may have a different experience. The candlesmoke is barely present and not acrid or harsh at all. Something in here also gives a vanilla-ish impression - maybe some hidden beeswax in with the candle smoke?

Ohhhh, I love this one. Wet on the skin, I get a generic slightly powdery sweet floral with a lot of candlesmoke, but once it dries down it changes entirely. The candlesmoke fades to the barest hint, and spicy carnations come to the fore. Rose and peonie add layers of nostalgic sweetness, followed by the barest breath of sandlewood. No powdery note detected at all once dry. This is definitely going to be one I pull out on the regular.

Here are some thoughts that I wanted to share with you about how to effectively serve your clients, friends and loved ones who are having an experience of madness. These ideas may also be of help in doing self-care if you are entering or traversing a madness process yourself.

That formulation and these practical suggestions are mainly gleaned from my own un-medicated, untreated experience of madness in my early twenties, and from working daily as a primary therapist for almost 30 years with actively mad clients using a Jungian/Transpersonal, Laingian approach.

I also am drawing on my doctoral research follow-up study done on the San Francisco based, medication free Diabasis House sanctuary for clients in acute madness, and my 20 year relationship with its founder, Jungian psychiatrist John Weir Perry.

So, here are two basic principles for helping someone or yourself in a madness process which are distilled from my own personal and work experience and from the study of successful Bay Area alternative programs.

Every time you tell yourself or believe that the mad person you are being with, or you yourself has a tragic, lifelong, and threatening illness that has no inherent meaning or purpose- such as a neuro-biological, genetically based diseased brain, an incurable thought disorder, or chemical brain imbalance- try to suspend your disbelief that another explanation may be possible.

Once you are able to stay open to the possibility that this process is an important, potentially transformative natural life event, draw on all your skills of receptivity and empathy. Begin by simply listening and receiving the person or your own experience with an open, compassionate heart. Let the gentle feelings of love that you would feel for a loved one who is frightened and suffering be present within you.

As this process unfolds, gently invite and encourage the expression of both the emotional and symbolic content. People in a madness process may need to use modalities such as drawing, painting, movement and evocative music to express themselves in addition to or instead of speech. Somatic modalities of touch and bodywork can be especially welcomed and grounding and soothing.

The common and overwhelming evidence from the Agnews project, Diabasis House, I-Ward, Soteria House and other alternative programs from all over the world, confirms the basic need for a person in such a madness process to be believed in, listened to and lovingly received and responded to in this way.

It is the same very familiar feeling tone of caring love that we often feel for our children or mates as we nurse them when they are ill, that can be evoked between us and someone in a madness process if we open our hearts beyond what professional mental health training teaches.

He reported his healing dream with tears of gratitude and joy because in it he was a young boy again, held warmly and rocked for a very long time by his mother who repeated wonderful terms of endearment and told him over and over that she loved him..

So,.in that spirit of risking to call what we may feel for ourselves or others in a madness process as being in fact love, here are observations I slowly learned for myself the past 30 years about how to more specifically make yourself available to anyone in a madness process. The list is only an attempt to begin a conversation and exploration of all the possible ways we can be of service.

The efficacy results from the Northern California based Agnews Project, I-Ward, Diabasis, and Soteria House all clearly demonstrate that without medication, most first time, acute madness crises will in fact be the occasion for a life changing developmental and possibly even a spiritual transformation if a 24/7 alternative, non-medical model sanctuary is provided.

My experience and research into alternative approaches for serving those in an acute madness process has led me to believe that at least 75% of the consumers who become trapped in the mental health system could have avoided that fate if acute care, 24/7 Bay Area sanctuaries like Diabasis House, Soteria and I-Ward (where I worked )were available at first contact with the system.

John Perry acknowledged that my utilizing Jungian dream work with consumers who had been medicated for years such as the older man I told about above, extended his work on acute episode madness into another level. He had not worked with long term consumers.

Against conventional wisdom and the wishes of my clinical supervisor at work, but with the tentative encouragement of doctoral program clinical supervisors John Perry, David Lukoff and Jungian, Tanya Wilkinson, I started asking consumers to share their dreams. For many, their psyches had just been waiting to be asked!

The buried, un-experienced, un-named, un-expressed affect/emotion that was the prime causal factor in their becoming mad in the first place was re-animated as archetypal dreams of emotional power and symbolic expression came pouring forth.

The New Age and sometimes Transpersonal Psychology over emphasis on defining spirituality and spiritual emergency and spiritual emergence as being only enlightening and uplifting is an unfortunate mistake. The elevator goes down as well as up.

In my experience, behind every image, thought and word, there is an emotion first. Behind every emotion there is a universal so-called archetypal power and emotional energy that must come forth as imagery that expresses that deep emotion. Behind every archetype is a totally autonomous living force of deity that has no historical bounds, no time bound archetypal form.

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