No One Can Show You The World!
You Have To See It For Yourself!
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 Here Is How It Is, Copper-Top, Hotel Guests Are Hereby Warned That Exploring "THE WORLD" As It Is, Rather Than As We Might Like It To Be, Is To Risk Becoming "UNPLUGGED"! Hotel Bravo Accepts No Responsibility Should This Occur! We Only Discovered What "THE WORLD" Is By Accident Ourselves! If You Begin To Feel Nauseous Or Otherwise Uncomfortable To Be Here, Please Feel Free To Leave And To Check In With The Robot Sentinels On Your Way Out!Attitude check?!
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"APOLLO'S REFLECTION"
Outside Her back door
She found Him crumpled
down in the dirt
barely a Man always
Her hearts sun light
the eternal Boy playing
in the yard
yesterdays dream
of Manhoods power
gone now become
the relentless waking
nightmare wailing
cursing all the ears
in darkness beyond
when tears have long
ceased to be wet
as far beyond the yard
as sound can be heard
the Mother of Him
whose Soul gave Her life
meaning
crumpled in the dirt
tucking Him up tight
to Her breast
heaving body wracking sobs
without sense of time
passing into dawns
empty silence when We
emerge from hiding to come close
to Her downward gaze
evading Our eyes
straining to do
what Our arms
will not do
hugging the knots
in Our bellies instead
layering numbness within
the Heroes shield
against faltering
self-righteous rage
staring sightlessly all seeing
into the dawning suns
lifeless shadow
at Our feet stretching into forever...
--By E. Andrews
July 1969
"WHEN YOU DO IT
TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE,
YOU DO IT TO ME...
skin color, nationality, ethnic origin, language, political or religious creed, sex or sexual orientation, without difference!"
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DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA For DSM IV #309.81
POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
A. The person has been exposed to a traumatic event in which both of the following were present:
(1) The person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others
(2) The person’s response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror. NOTE: In Children, this may be expressed instead by disorganized or agitated behavior
B. The traumatic event is persistently re-experienced in one (or more) of the following ways:
(1) Recurrent and intrusive distressing recollections of the event, including images, thoughts, or perceptions. NOTE: In young Children, repetitive play may occur in which themes or aspects of trauma are expressed.
(2) Recurrent distressing dreams of the event. NOTE: In Children, there may be frightening dreams without recognizable content.
(3) Acting or feeling as if the traumatic event were recurring (includes a sense of reliving the experience, illusions, hallucinations, and dissociative, flashback episodes, including those that occur on awakening or when intoxicated) NOTE: In young Children, trauma-specific reenactment may occur.
(4) Intense psychological distress at exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
(5) Physiological reactivity on exposure to internal or external cues that symbolize or resemble an aspect of the traumatic event
C. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma and numbing of general responses (not present before the trauma), as indicated by three (or more) of the following:
(1) Efforts to avoid thoughts, feelings, or conversations associated with the trauma
(2) Efforts to avoid activities, places, or people that arouse recollections of the trauma
(3) Inability to recall an important aspect of the trauma
(4) Markedly diminished interest or participation in significant activities
(5) Feeling of detachment or estrangement from others
(6) Restricted range of effect (e.g. unable to have loving feelings)
(7) Sense of foreshortened future (e.g. does not expect to have a career, marriage, children, or a normal life span)
D. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal (not present before the trauma), as indicated by two (or more) of the following:
(1) Difficulty falling or staying asleep
(2) Irritability or outbursts of anger
(3) Difficulty concentrating
(4) Hyper-vigilance
(5) Exaggerated startle response
E. Duration of the disturbance (symptoms in Criteria B, C, and D) is more than one (1) month
F. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
Specify if:
ACUTE: If duration of symptoms is less than 3 months
CHRONIC: If duration of symptoms is 3 months or more
Specify if:
WITH DELAYED ONSET: If onset of symptoms is at least 6 months after the stressor Information taken from the: Diagnostic And Statistical Manual
Of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), published by the
American Psychiatric Association,
Copyright 1994
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"Everything is not well in the garden!"
--Chance (Peter Sellers in 'Being There')
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TEAM WORK!
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