a few hundred yards, then my headache becomes more pressing, more oppressive. I can still force myself to go further, but then my headache gets worse. Even when I was twelve years old and I would go shopping with my mother to buy clothes in a chain store, I found it difficult to walk with her because I felt a sort of dizziness in the head.
(G.V.): How old were you when these headaches began?
(M.P.): I don’t feel that there is a specific date I could pinpoint. (G.V.): More or less. When you were a child?
(M.P.): I do remember that when I was about seven years old I had a feeling of waking up refreshed after sleep; but even now I remember feeling that heat wasn’t very good for my headaches.(G. V.): The headaches are worse from the heat?
(M.P.): Well, it isn’t really that heat makes it worse; heat just gives my headache sort of a final blow. When the headache is constant, then heat is just an additional factor, like the straw that broke the camel’s back, sort of. The heat rises up into my head.(G. V.): Like flashes?
(M.P.): I feel almost as if I were going to faint.
(G.V.): Have you ever had a relationship with a woman?
(M.P.): No.
(G.V.): Didn’t you want one, or did you try but were rejected? (M.P.): I’ve never been rejected. I’ve always really had too much to do with my studies and all. I’ve always looked at women and seen women, observed them. But I feel I’ve always had too much to do, for example, when I was studying. I’ve always made a clear distinction between a woman that I was attracted to and a woman that I was not attracted to.
(G.V.): Do you feel that you have a strong sexual desire?
(M.P.): It was a strong sexual desire until about a year ago when it began to decrease.
(G.V.): Why was that?
(M.P.): It’s because I felt physically worse, my general perfor-mance as a person was worse. I feel that was the reason for the decline in my sexual desire.