The patients with schizophrenia landed at the bottom-excluded from group therapy, seen as lunatic and raving, and incapable of fitting into the requirements of normalcy. I was in this group, and was perhaps even ranked as highly as the depressives, because I came from Yale. In the middle of the hierarchy were those with anorexia and bipolar disorder. We had already proved ourselves capable of being high-functioning, and thus contained potential if only we could be steered onto the right track. A precocious young person on a track to success, Wang experiences a manic episode at Yale that leads to her first hospitalization. The Collected Schizophrenias is a book of personal essays that was the 2016 winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Because we were in the Yale Psychiatric Institute (now the Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital), many of those hospitalized were Yalies, and therefore considered bright people who’d simply wound up in bad situations. Esm Weijun Wang is a novelist who has been diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Wang mixes in news stories about schizophrenia sufferers who have committed or been the victims of. From here, each essay focusses on a different aspect of either her own life or those of others. Depressives, who constituted most of the ward’s population, sat at the top of the chain, even if they were receiving electroconvulsive therapy. The way the collection is structured was clearly and excellently thought-out: first educating us, then encouraging empathy and understanding. “A natural hierarchy arose in the hospital, guided by both our own sense of functionality and the level of functionality perceived by the doctors, nurses, and social workers who treated us.
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Little blue truck makes a friend7/2/2023 And if you allow your child to be indoctrinated into the Red Army, before you know it she's going to run off thinking she can farm or smelt or push dump trucks or whatever, and let me be straight with you, friend: she can't. The American Way is you best call a tow truck, and if you can't afford a tow truck then you have a truck problem. Real talk: a frog can't move a dump truck. "With great labor we will fulfill the plan" But is any of that acknowledged in this insidious communist propaganda? Of course not! The real-life result was a lot of bad steel and no one had any pots left. You know what Little Blue Truck sounds like to me? It sounds like Little Red Book, and this story is an allegory for Mao's Great Leap Forward, during which everyone, regardless of their innate ability or training, was set to melting metal down into steel. "Everybody is fully occupied in production" Sound familiar? That's because it is COMMUNISM! If all pull together, even the largest tasks can be accomplished. Even if, like the frog, they are not best suited for pushing, they must join equally in the fight. Whatever their individual strengths, all must join in the struggle to move the enormous truck. In the end it's the addition of the little green frog who pushes them over the edge that last little bit is enough to help the dump truck.Ī mighty machine can only be moved by the combined strength of every citizen. A dump truck gets stuck in the mud plucky little blue truck can only get him out with the help of all his friends. Man Without a Shadow by Colin Wilson7/2/2023 He ascribed his lack of acceptance by British academia to the fact that he never attended a university that may have been so, but it is also a fact that far too much of his massive output was sloppy, superficial and, from an alarmingly early stage, outright silly. In his preface to an anniversary edition of Religion and the Rebel decades later, he stated that the only possible improvements he could make to the latter would be in the vocabulary (the word "Outsider" came in a bit too much, he thought). Wilson wrote The Outsider at twenty-five, became a best-seller, and promptly stopped developing. The basis of his philosophy, so far as I can discern it, was that optimism is truer than pessimism because it feels better that the universe, having produced George Bernard Shaw and then, in relatively short order, Colin Henry Wilson, must be a rather jolly place that human beings have vast reservoirs of as yet untapped psychic potential and that, given sufficient mental discipline, a man might become anything he wanted and live as long as he wished. The death of Colin Wilson, as a spring chicken of eighty-two, will have surprised nobody more than himself. The secret by rl stine7/1/2023 They also seem compelled to fall in love with one another. 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Sometimes marketed as a book in the Anne Shirley series, Anne plays only a minor role in the book: out of the 12 stories in the collection, she stars in only one ("The Hurrying of Ludovic"), and has a small supporting role in another ("The Courting of Prissy Strong"). It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. About Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. |