Editing Brian Wilson (section)

==Mental health==
===Onset of illness===
Wilson is diagnosed with [[schizoaffective disorder]] and mild [[bipolar disorder]].{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=280}} Since 1965, he has regularly experienced [[auditory hallucination]]s in the form of disembodied voices.<ref name="freedom2007">{{cite news|last=Freedom du Lac|first=J.|title=It Wasn't All Fun, Fun, Fun|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2007/11/30/ST2007113001361.html|date=December 2, 2007|access-date=June 30, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> Wilson referred to the voices as "heroes and villains" that contributed to "a life of scare".{{sfn|Kent|2009|p=72}}

His family and associates faced challenges in discerning genuine mental health issues from potential manipulative behavior on Wilson's part.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=248}} Subsequent to his Houston flight incident from December 1964, Marilyn arranged his first psychiatrist visit, where it was ruled that Wilson's condition was due to work-related fatigue.{{sfn|Wilson|Gold|1991|pp=110–111}} Wilson typically refused counseling, and his family believed his idiosyncrasies stemmed from drug habits or were innate to his personality.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|pp=191, 277–278}}{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=171}}{{refn|group=nb|Gaines goes on to write that Brian receiving "intense psychiatric care in a hospital setting" would have been perceived as "an admission of defeat and an embarrassment" to his bandmates.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=278}}  Carlin recounted an episode where a friend from Wilson's childhood days visited him and observed him as being "detached from reality". Wilson's family seemed "less sympathetic than confused and, it's hard not to conclude, resentful."{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=171}} }} Marilyn countered accusations of neglect on her part, emphasizing her repeated efforts to get him professional help.{{sfn|Granata|2003|p=57}}

According to Wilson, he was introduced to recreational drugs by an acquaintance during a Beach Boys tour.<ref name="Oui" />{{refn|group=nb|In his memoir, Love wrote of an incident in which he had discovered drug paraphernalia in Wilson's hotel room during a tour stop in Texas in the early 1960s. Love was unsure of the drug contents, although it was certainly not marijuana, and he did not confront Wilson about the matter.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=105}} }} His hallucinations emerged early in 1965, about a week after his first time using psychedelics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brian Wilson – A Powerful Interview|url=http://abilitymagazine.com/past/brianW/brianw.html |work=Ability Magazine |first1=Chet |last1=Cooper |first2=Gillian|last2=Friedman}}</ref> Loren Schwartz, his supplier, said that Wilson's first dosage was 125 micrograms of "pure [[Owsley Stanley|Owsley]]" and resulted in "full-on [[ego death]]".{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=174–175}}{{refn|group=nb|Brian remembered taking the LSD at his home,<ref name="Boucher2007"/> but according to Marilyn, he took the drug elsewhere with Schwartz.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=133}} By her recollection, he returned home the next day and recounted his experience, telling her repeatedly that his "mind was blown" and that he had seen God.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|pp=133–134}}}}  Mike Love observed signs of irregular behavior in Wilson by July, recalling an incident where Wilson deliberately crashed his car, an act Love deemed out of character.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=125}} His drug use was initially concealed from his bandmates and family,{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=126}} including Love, who had thought Wilson to be strictly opposed to drugs.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=105}}

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|quote=[In mid-1965, Brian had] asked me to come down to Studio B. When we got down there, he said to me, "Let me play something that I hear when I've been on LSD." He sat down at the piano and played one note. He described what he was hearing. That's when I knew he was in trouble.
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Wilson, in 1990, attributed LSD to his developing "a [[Messiah complex|Jesus Christ complex]]" in the mid-1960s.{{sfn|Holdship|1997|p=212}} Following the advice of Four Freshmen manager Bill Wagner, Wilson consulted with a [[UCLA]] psychiatrist on the adverse effects of LSD. The psychiatrist later told Wagner, "I don't know if he is savable. He gives me the impression he's been on it for a while, and he's entirely enamored of it."{{sfn|Granata|2003|p=56}} By 1966, Wilson acknowledged using "pills" for introspection rather than leisure and viewed psychedelic usage as benign.{{sfn|Granata|2003|p=55}} His 2016 memoir states that he abstained from consuming LSD for a second time until he was 23, around 1966 or 1967.{{sfn|Wilson|Greenman|2016|p=169}} Marilyn suspected he had numerous LSD experiences in the ensuing years, although she only knew of two such incidents at the time.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=134}} Ledbetter, in 2004, claimed Wilson had taken LSD only thrice in his life.<ref name="LK2004" />{{refn|group=nb|[[Micky Dolenz]] recalled an occasion in the 1970s where he took LSD with Wilson, Harry Nilsson, and John Lennon in Malibu. Dolenz said that Wilson "played just one note on a piano over and over again" for the duration.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dolenz|first1=Micky|last2=Bego|first2=Mark|title=I'm a Believer|date=2004|publisher=Cooper Square Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-81541-284-7|pages=177–178}}</ref> }}

As Wilson's condition worsened, he grew susceptible to [[paranoid delusion]]s, believing that his auditory hallucinations were [[Satan]] coming "in the form of other people that were competing with me and had ideas of killing me."{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=330}} By 1968, following the birth of their first child, Marilyn's concerns about Wilson's mental health intensified.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=184}} Wilson was hospitalized later that year and prescribed [[Thorazine]] for severe [[anxiety disorder]].<ref name="Bedroom2014" /> He may have self-admitted and possibly received treatments ranging from [[talking therapies]] to doses of [[lithium (medication)|lithium]] and [[electroconvulsive therapy]] during this stay.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=141}}

===Post-Landy===
Wilson was given the since-retracted diagnosis of [[paranoid schizophrenia]],{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=280}} in addition to manic-depressive psychosis, when he was a patient at Brotzman Memorial Hospital in 1978.{{sfn|Love|2016|p=443}} Landy, in 1976, had initially refuted such a diagnosis, suggesting Wilson's main issue was "being scared".{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=200}} In 1984, doctors again misdiagnosed Wilson with schizophrenia, also finding evidence of [[brain damage]] caused by drug use.<ref name="A Boy's own story">{{cite news |first=Sean|last=O'Hagan|author-link=Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|title=Feature: ''A Boy's Own Story'' |newspaper=[[The Observer]]|date=January 6, 2002|pages=1–3|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/jan/06/features.review87}}</ref>

In the late 1980s, Wilson developed facial tics ([[tardive dyskinesia]]) symptomatic of excessive psychotropic medications.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|pp=271–272, 280}} Therapist Peter Reum stated that Wilson would have deterioriated into a "drooling, palsied mental patient", and potentially died of [[heart failure]] had he continued this drug regimen.{{sfn|Carlin|2006|p=272}}{{refn|group=nb|In 1991, Wilson told reporters that his prescribed medications included [[Navane]] and [[Serentil]] (anti-psychotics), [[Cogentin]] (to mitigate the side effects of the anti-psychotics), [[Alprazolam|Xanax]] (a sedative used for anxiety), and [[Eskalith]] (for manic depression).<ref name="Harrington91">{{cite news |last1=Harrington |first1=Richard |title=Brian Wilson and the Angry Vibrations |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1991/12/01/brian-wilson-and-the-angry-vibrations/17783698-814c-40fc-9a29-f0cf3fb63df3/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=December 1, 1991}}</ref>}} In a 2002 interview, Wilson stated, "I don't regret [the Landy program]. I loved the guy—he saved me."{{sfn|Granata|2003|p=214}} After Wilson sought medical care elsewhere, he was declared to have [[organic personality disorder]].{{sfn|Love|2016|pp=159, 367}}{{refn|group=nb|Musician Sean O'Hagan, who was invited to collaborate with Wilson in the 1990s, characterized Wilson as "totally dependent on other people", with signs reminiscent of [[autism]].<ref name="ohaganintermusic">{{cite web|title=Arranging Strings|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/295063269/Arranging-Strings|website=[[Intermusic]]|date=September 17, 2001}}</ref>}}

[[File:Brian wilson good vibrations 2017 (cropped horizontal).png|left|thumb|Wilson performing "[[Good Vibrations]]" in Washington D.C. in 2017]]

Wilson's mental condition improved in later years, although his auditory hallucinations persisted, especially when performing onstage.<ref name="AstonishingGenius2011"/> He credits his relationship with his second wife for allowing him to resume his career as a musician. In his own words, he said that he should have spent the early 2000s "in a mental institution under heavy sedation" due to the stresses of his condition; however, "Things have started to get a little bit easier, but I'm not always in a positive, happy place."<ref name="freedom2007"/> In 2002, he lamented that his successful treatment had [[Creativity and mental illness|inhibited his creativity and songwriting]].<ref name="A Boy's own story" />