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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 9457" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I had a friend, a brilliant man with a gift for music and for his career as school teacher. He would raise the academic and musical standard of a school, all the time the kids enjoying what he was doing and doing well. But I saw the pattern when he was doing well, really well, and people were congratulating him - he had to sabotage himself. He would get romantically involved with the mother of one of his students, and then just as the relationship was doing well and they were happy, he had to break up. And, of course, move away.</p><p></p><p>I happened to have an other colleague on the other side of Sydney who remembered him from when he had taught her daughter a number of years earlier. She told me a similar story.</p><p></p><p>I followed his career as best as I could after he left our area - same story, he got the school's musical and performance standard up from woeful to brilliant in just a few months. Then he began another affair with another woman, with whom he broke up just as his life was looking good. And he left again.</p><p></p><p>My friend never did get a handle on his problems. He died ten years ago, I believe it was a drug overdose. He had been a difficult child with a history of being abused by his father. I believe, with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, that he was an untreated BiPolar (BP). But he lived his life sabotaging his success when it was at a pinnacle - he couldn't allow himself to be that successful without bringing it down as some sort of balance or redress.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if there's more than a passing similarity to Katie and what she said, but it reminded me.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 9457, member: 1991"] I had a friend, a brilliant man with a gift for music and for his career as school teacher. He would raise the academic and musical standard of a school, all the time the kids enjoying what he was doing and doing well. But I saw the pattern when he was doing well, really well, and people were congratulating him - he had to sabotage himself. He would get romantically involved with the mother of one of his students, and then just as the relationship was doing well and they were happy, he had to break up. And, of course, move away. I happened to have an other colleague on the other side of Sydney who remembered him from when he had taught her daughter a number of years earlier. She told me a similar story. I followed his career as best as I could after he left our area - same story, he got the school's musical and performance standard up from woeful to brilliant in just a few months. Then he began another affair with another woman, with whom he broke up just as his life was looking good. And he left again. My friend never did get a handle on his problems. He died ten years ago, I believe it was a drug overdose. He had been a difficult child with a history of being abused by his father. I believe, with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, that he was an untreated BiPolar (BP). But he lived his life sabotaging his success when it was at a pinnacle - he couldn't allow himself to be that successful without bringing it down as some sort of balance or redress. I don't know if there's more than a passing similarity to Katie and what she said, but it reminded me. Marg [/QUOTE]
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