Tuesday, October 23, 2007 @ 10/23/2007 10:10:00 AM
i've decided not to blog till the a levels..
but i came across this very interesting article
and i realise how lifes of others are so much worse off than me..
may it be physically, financially or MENTALLY..here's the story..
In a new book, a psychiatrist details his most challenging case, a woman with 17 personalities.Even for a psychiatric patient, Karen Overhill seemed unusually devoid of hope on the day in 1989 she walked into the Chicago office of Dr. Richard Baer. As weeks of therapy grew into months, antidepressants didn't help her, at least not consistently. She was suicidal—and the flat, emotionless way she stated her wish to die made Baer fear that she might actually follow through. Eventually, Karen began to volunteer stories of childhood abuse. And she mentioned odd memory lapses. She would find herself in strange places with no awareness of how she'd gotten there. She couldn't even remember having had sex with her husband, although she must have, since they had two children.
Baer suspected a much deeper problem than the depression and suicidal thoughts Karen admitted to. Still, he kept his speculation to himself during the first four years of therapy, for fear of planting ideas in Karen's mind. He waited for her to volunteer the information, and in a way, she finally did. In November 1993, an envelope with Karen's return address arrived in the mail. Inside was a single sheet of lined paper and a letter written in a child's penciled scrawl. "My name is Claire," it began. "I am 7 years old. I live inside Karen.". . . The creation of separate alters may seem a bizarre way to cope, but it's not as if patients imagine themselves as Cleopatra or Napoleon. Each persona handles a different aspect of the sufferer's life. As Baer explains in his book, an alter named Claire would emerge when Karen was dragged from bed at night, so that Karen had little memory of the abuse the next day. When the torture began, Miles would take over. As a boy, he couldn't be violated in the same way and therefore couldn't fully absorb it mentally. Elise was created so that Karen could go to school the next day and act normal, having donned long pants and sleeves to cover the bruises. Sidney was the ball-playing child who related to Karen's father as if nothing was amiss, allowing Karen to survive in a household where, as a young girl, she was dependent on her dad. Lacking decent parents of her own, Karen even created Katherine and Holdon to be the responsible adults in her life, modeling them on figures she saw in sitcoms like "Father Knows Best" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." The alters would come and go as needed, taking over Karen's conscious thoughts. When she regained awareness, all she knew was that she had "lost time."http://www.newsweek.com/id/57343/page/1read this..
you'll realise how much more fortunate you are..
someone out there had to split herself into 17 different personalities to cope with the torture and trauma she was going through..
~may the world become a better place
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Friday, October 12, 2007 @ 10/12/2007 08:37:00 PM
bless me and my friends =)~till then.........
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 @ 10/07/2007 03:18:00 PM
BOO!!
today is a nice day to sleep ya..
woo hoot...
woke up around 11.. went for breakfast and watch tv..
in other words... i did not study today!!
guess i'll have to study tonight then..
going to the airport later to fetch my lao jie home..
hahahaX..
it's been 2 looooooooooooonnnnnnng weeks since i saw her..
Ahlala~
i bet she'll miss the FOOD in here man..
arghX.. don't like the fact that no matter how much she eat she won't grow a teenee bit fatter..
hahaX..
but oh well.. life's unfair..
i bet she'll miss using the computer man..
cux all she did there was building some roads..
but nonetheless.. i still don't like the feeling of being at home alone..
welcome home !!
hee heee..
TADA!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUgv8BujaM4
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 @ 10/04/2007 11:26:00 AM
WOO HOOT!!!
i can't wait!!!
Out on 05-11-2007!!!
1. Home
2. Us Against The World
3. Something Right
4. I’m Already There
5. When I’m With You
6. Have You Ever
7. It’s You
8. Catch My Breath
9. The Easy Way
10. I Do
11. Pictures in My Head
12. You Must Have Had A Broken Heart
~whatever is enough??
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 @ 10/02/2007 08:09:00 PM
i can go on
i can make it
i can do it
i can move on
i can feel it
i can reach my goal
i wanna believe
i wanna see
i wanna become
i wanna keep
i wanna forget
i wanna remember
everything
endlessly
forever
lifetime
longing
falling
i don't want to
i don't need to
i don't see why
i don't like to
i don't seem to
i don't hide
i hope
i understand
i promise
i pray
i escape
i stay
~you can take my word
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