Conversations

Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis


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In the 1990s, Glenn Jarvis was living in London working for a very powerful American corporation called Enron. He was under a huge amount of stress at work, when his mental health began to spiral downwards.

In the late 1990s Australian Glenn Jarvis won a job in London with Enron, a giant American energy and investment corporation. Life was exhilarating and he made lots of friends.

But after a time Glenn began to notice some very odd transactions at Enron.

Giant amounts of money were flooding in to the company that simply couldn't be accounted for.

Glenn took it up with with his bosses, but they didn't want to know.

In part because of the questions he was asking, Glenn's reputation at work began to change, and his mental health began to deteriorate.

He had a psychotic episode, and spent the next 2 years in and out of mental health units in Australia and the UK.

Eventually he found himself back in town of Queanbeyan where he grew up, with no job, no money, and few friends who understood what he'd been through.

His family stuck by him, but things were difficult, and he ended up in supported accommodation.

Across the road from where he was living was a local Bowling Club. He would go there and buy a single beer most nights, and eventually befriended some of the regulars.

With the help of these elderly friends, and meaningful work, Glenn began a slow and painstaking climb back into an entirely different kind of life.

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