Disorders

People with mental illnesses can enrich our lives. The following people experienced mental illnesses yet achieved success in their fields (and there are no doubt many more): 
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​   Abraham Lincoln,  Virginia Woolf,  Lionel Aldridge,
   Beethoven,  Gaetuno Donizetti,  Robert Schuman,
   Leo Tolstoy,  Vaslav Njinsky,  John Keats,
   Tennessee Williams,  Vincent van Gogh,  Isaac Newton,
   Ernest Hemingway,  Sylvia Plath,  Michaelangelo,
   Winston Churchill,  Vivien Leigh,  Emperor Norton,
   Jimmy Piersall,  Patty Duke,  Charles Dickens.




​Treatment begins with a patient describing his or her experiences. The quotations below give  an indication of how patients feel when experiencing some of the conditions treated by Dr Landman.

Bipolar

"The highest, biggest, quickest, can’t keep up with it all, from can’t possibly fail, to irritation to rage, and finally to the lowest, murky chamber of hell where the darkest of moods slowly struggles every hope… and, maybe in between all is all right."​

Schizophrenia

"Where is my life going? Whatever happened to all those things I was planning to do: the dreams, the hopes and the expectations? Was there really a time when the future didn’t seem so challenging, so difficult and so bleak? Why can the voices in my head not be quiet? The television send me messages but they also watch me through the television. I think that they are the Martians who want to abduct me."

Depression

“I doubt completely my ability to do anything well. It seems as though my mind has slowed down and burned out to the point of being virtually useless… (I am) haunt(ed)… with the total, the desperate hopelessness of it all… Others say, “it’s only temporary, it will pass, you'll get over it “, but they don’t know how I feel, even if they think they do. If I can't feel, move, think or care, then what on earth is the point?”​

Hypomania

“At first when I’m high, it’s tremendous… ideas are fast… like shooting stars you follow until brighter ones appear… all shyness disappears, the right words and gestures are suddenly there… uninteresting people and things become intensely interesting. Sensuality is pervasive, the desire to seduce and be seduced is irresistible. Your marrow is infused with unbelievable feelings of ease, power, well-being, omnipotence, euphoria… you can do anything… but, somewhere this changes.”