Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Tarsis is no more interested in the guests than Lipyan is. To the manager, the healthy ones are suckers who madly and drunkenly throw away their savings. The really sick cannot be cured in so short a stay...
...kind of behavior that gets people put in mental hospitals is called "sick" or "irrational." But conversations with these students suggest that given the interaction of genetic predisposition, personal history, and the circumstances of the surroundings, "sick" actions are entirely logical. The sickness lies in the interpretation. The alienated student who cannot conform is branded with a stigma that pushes him further and further out until he reaches the hospital...
Psychotherapy was intimidating. "First you discover that throughout your whole life you had been in the process of getting sick," one of the girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now--unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs . . . . During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging...
...first three years I got a job in a local Chinese restaurant where people knew my family, a place where upper middle class people would go to dinner. After I got sick of being around the neigbhorhood I got a job somewhere else where in the daytime they fed people from the local universities and a local medical center and in the evenings there were professional women; that is, prostitutes were my regular customers...
...IMPORTANT when my father got a nervous breakdown because then my family was split up. My mother was sick too and since we were a nice family, in most ways, we immediately found foster parents for the six kids. I lived in a lower middle class Italian-American family, very nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta...