Dissociative disorders

Advise should be taken with a grain of salt because someone’s advise doesn’t always fit your situation. Yet sometimes, advice doesn’t need to be taken with a grain of salt because it universally applies to everyone. Yolanda Nava was given universal advise by her mother as she describes in the article “A Deathbed Lesson for Life: It’s All in the Frijoles.” When Nava asked her mother what made her strong, her mother told her that it was all in the beans. Later, when she was making frijoles en la…

to Milligan’s self defense against the traumatic events of his childhood (Phillips). For the next few days, without realizing, I found my thoughts drifting over to Billy Milligan’s disturbing yet fascinating account. Milligan’s multiple identity disorder became the constant source of my procrastination. Perhaps because he eerie reminded of myself. I felt an irrefutable resemblance between the whole idea of self-creation of identities and my social media…

Perks of Being a Wallflower is often referred to a “coming-of-age” novel and seems to cover all tribulations and complications that every teenager faces, but are all these themes discussed in the novel actually normal for a teenager to go through? Death, depression and sexual abuse are not uncommon occurrences in society, but they are lot to endure all at once. Charlie goes through or is affected by all of these things throughout the entirety of the text. The death of his aunt and friend, and…

Growing Old It seems that since the beginning of history we have seen explorers and kings search every corner of the world for the fabled Fountain of Youth in hopes that they will stay forever young. All of them failed. Everyone dreads growing older. We shrink from the responsibilities that age brings us in a futile attempt to return to the care free days of our youth. “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins is a poem focused on the loss of childhood innocence when someone feels that they are being…

The Three Musketeers My father didn’t like me, my mother tried to make it seem like she didn’t like me. Though my mother put in effort in her attempt, my father did not as much. My father only put up with me because she put up with me. If she’d ever wanted me gone, he’d simply ask her when. I don’t think I was supposed to happen. Not for him, at least. Upon hearing of my mother’s pregnancy, he optioned for her to abort me. He asked her again two weeks later when she said she would but never did.…

is clear this is happening in their own mind, but to some it is difficult to differ between reality and fantasy. In the short stories, William Wilson and The Secret Sharer, both of the narrators can be interpreted to suffer from split personality disorder just as Dr. Jekyll did in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Each of these stories explores the concepts of good and evil and the idea that mental illness can lead to self discovery and happiness while it can also result in depression…

From the beginning of her short story, “Seventeen Syllables,” Hisaye Yamamoto establishes the split personality of Rosie’s mother, Tome Hayashi. Having recently taken an interest in haiku, Mrs. Hayashi, under the pseudonym Ume Hanazono, increasingly spends her time writing and perfecting her own haiku. Mrs. Hayashi’s subsequent inconsistency as a person does have consequences, changing the dynamics of the Hayashi’s family life. Yamamoto effectively renders Mrs. Hayashi split into two separate…

Many people have a memorable event that shapes their lives; unfortunately, I was in a coma for mine. In February 2012 -- mid-way through my freshman year -- I suffered a brain aneurysm. There were no big warning signs, no red flags...just a nagging headache two days before. I went to sleep one night, and woke up two days later in a hospital room, surrounded by a dozen strange people, with a breathing tube down my throat...and everyone telling me to RELAX. Are you kidding me?! The good news is…

Varian Fry was a spark of hope for people in a time of Holocaust. He had to work really hard to get his work done, so much he got little sleep. "I still begin at 8 in the morning and work until 11 at night, and sometimes until one (Leepson).” Varian Fry was a man who stood up for the Jews where many other people did not at a time of the Holocaust. Varian Fry was born on the 15th of October on West 150th Street in Manhattan. His mother, Lillian, for a while, was in the hospital for emotional…

Hicksville high is a small school where every student knows everything about the other. Among the thirty students in the senior class of 2016 Bill, Lenard and Tony were the weirdest and coolest characters that always tried a certain fad or thing first. They were the major subjects of gossip in Hicksville high and whatever little thing they did in the morning would become a huge behemoth by the time school finished for the day. Like every teenage trio BFFs, they had a nickname and were dubbed…