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...with schizo-affective disorder, whose cousin hacked her way out of the first floor of the Trade Center with an ax, calmly tells me he is glad she?s okay. "That?s my only story," he says, and asks for his prescription for Haldol, an anti-psychotic medication. A man with an almost crippling fear of leaving his apartment comes to his appointment. He is reorganizing his closets, "to do something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show...
...population, those with chronic psychiatric illnesses who don?t function well, start to show up in the emergency rooms. As the third week begins, no more waiting for people to turn up - we are busy. Over and over, patients? family members tell me the same thing, "She was doing okay, just barely, but then the Trade Center...." I think about how those of us who think of ourselves as stable feel - terrified, disbelieving, stressed to the limit - and try to imagine what it?s like to be paranoid already, and then have this happen...
...missing in the towers, only to have it turn out that the person was never married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech that I give - It?s okay to feel this way (insert symptom X: Sleepless, anxious, jumpy, won?t ride the subway, wants to move to Canada, convinced there will be a nuclear bomb, guilty about having seen a movie, experiencing ceaseless diarrhea). You are having a normal reaction to an abnormal event...
...wasn’t really thinking,” Foreman said. “I just came into the circle and I wanted to shoot since the defender wasn’t really coming towards me. I took the shot and hoped it went okay, just looking for a rebound. I just got lucky and it went...
...Okay, Dean Lewis. You’re right: Harvard students need to decompress more. But, let’s say that I actually do want to take your advice, and my idea of “unstructured” time well-spent is shooting the breeze with some friends after a long day of studying. The problem is, where am I to go on campus...