Word: motherism
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...Hamill: Mostly because I'm at a comfortable place in my life, and it's something that I've dealt with, something that's been in my family on both my mother's side and my father's side. I think it's important for people to be more aware of it, to know that you can get help and still carry on and lead a fairly normal life, be successful and pursue your dreams. It's taken me a long time to not be embarrassed or ashamed. In spite of it all, I was still able...
...think it's a very common thing, especially that generation. My dad would come home from work and they'd have their cocktail hour. My father had two brothers who committed suicide. [There's] a lot of alcoholism on both my mother's side and my father's side, so there is certainly a huge stigma with that. And also people who were depressed or not able to function would [be] sent away. I just remember my mother at times, we'd be so frustrated because we wouldn't understand why she was acting...
...write that your mother wasn't in the arena when you won your Olympic gold medal. Do you attribute that to her emotional problems...
...know. I'm actually not exactly sure if that was the reason. I suppose it could be. I remember my coach, Carlo Fassi, always saying to people, 'Oh, Dorothy's mother makes her nervous and Dorothy never skates well when her mother is in the arena.' It's true. I could just sense when my mother was at a practice session. I could just feel her eyes boring holes through me. I could look up and just tell from the way she was sitting that she was either upset with me or not happy or I wasn't doing something...
...background, Schulz’s father Jacob (Carlos Uriona) and his mother (Carroll Durand) ponder their simple lives: Uriona slowly consumes a bowl of soup, and Durand looks over a Torah...