When I Woke

cold, gloomy fall night, the windows had fog on them and I could smell the hot chocolate mom was makimg downstairs. I wasn't feeling too good at dinner time so I had called it an early night. As I was drifting off to sleep, something went bump and I felt my bed shake. Silly me just thought I had fallen into a dream but it happened again. This time I was jolted from my bed. I landed in the floor. I was on my belly, my hands started to tremble as I lifted my head off the floor. My eyes immediately…

He turned his head to the left wall which was closest to him, and sees a painting of a gray flower. Then turning towards the right he sees a white wall with a black door. He doesn’t move from his spot. Not now, it just didn’t feel right. He’ll do it when the timing is right. Until something heavy pressing against his legs alarmed him. He nearly jumps upon seeing what was there, which was a living creature sporting snow white fur. Pondering on the thought of why the small creature was present, he…

splitting and dissociation affect an individual’s behavior, worldview, and role in their environment. In addition, psychological mechanisms may also impact how an individual responds to the events he or she encounters. Martha Stout, the author of “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” tells stories about how her patients were affected by trauma and explains how an individual’s understanding of his or her past can influence his or her understanding of him or herself. Stout explains her…

two of her patients, in her article “When I Woke Up on Tuesday, it is Friday,” they have experienced the overwhelming pains than they can bear for, such as one for the patients is extremely fearful for her stepfather because she had been abused by him in her childhood. Stout also explained the definition of the dissociation,…

Little did I know that one day when I woke up my life would completely change forever, and created many difficulties that I will need to overcome. In the summer of 2014 my parents decided to get divorced, and sadly my mother did not take kindly to that. It was a slowly building tension in the house through the beginning of the summer. Both my parents tried to remain civil for the sake of my brother and I, but one day it all fell apart. I heard the doors slamming and the feet stomping from the…

Problems Universal concepts and culturally inflected ideas are two broad statements that pose an innumerous amount of uncertainty when deciphering what each categorizes. As suggested by Ethan Watters in “The Mega-Marketing of Depression of Japan,” culture differences means conceptual differences. Where as in “Immune to Reality” by Daniel Gilbert and Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday” a person’s knowledge of the world is generated through language. Whether it be from…

absence and that is true to an extent. Former Harvard Professor, Dr.Martha Stout, details this absenteeism as a result of traumatic experiences through the story of a patient, in her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday”…

interacts with the world. Leslie Bell’s “Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” Martha Stout’s “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It Was Friday,” and Andrew Solomon’s “Son” collectively address the idea that one of the consequences of individuals’ interactions with others…

to Reality,” Gilbert talks about the psychological immune system and explains how people at times are unable to predict their future emotions. In the essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday” Stout discusses disassociation, its causes and its effects. Although different in subject, the two essays “Immune to Reality” and “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday” share a common theme (Stout ---) (Gilbert ---). The two essays, using psychoanalysis, discuss how the brain attempts to…

as an individual matures he or she will try to go against his or her upbringing and family situation while other individuals may attempt to hold on to the past in order to discover his or her roots. This notion of self-discovery was explored in “When I Woke Up Tuesday, It Was Friday” by Martha Stout in relation to trauma victims. Stout, a psychologist, interviewed trauma victims, in…