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| User: | escher749 (3389159)
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| Name: | escher749 |
| Location: | Provincetown, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1979-05-18 |
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| escher749 | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| AOL IM: |  Mml74990 (Add Buddy, Send Message) |
| Yahoo! ID: |  mhyer98 (Add User, Send Message) |
| Bio: | " This is an account of a journey into that nightmare state ascribed to madness: that social condition, that experience of being cast out and confined. I am telling you what happened to me. Because the telling functions for me as a kind of exorcism, a retrieval and vindication of the self - the mind - through reliving what occurred. It is a journey many of us take. Some of us survive it intact, others only partially survive, debilitated by the harm done to us: the temptations of complicity, of the career of "patient," the pressures toward capitulation. I am telling this too in the hope that it may help all those who have been or are about to be in the same boat, those captured and shaken by this bizarre system of beliefs: the general superstition of "mental disease," the physical fact of incarceration and compulsory drugs, finally the threat of being put away and locked up forever, or if released, stigmatized throughout the rest of one's life. A fate, after all, held before all of us through the whole course of our lives, the notion of "losing one's mind." An eventuality I once would have regarded as absurd, impossible, someone else's bad luck but not mine." -Kate Millet, "The Loony-Bin Trip"
"There must be another way to go through life besides being pulled through it kicking and screaming." "Learning to accept yourself is the beginning of change. Learning to accept others is the beginning of wholeness. Love expands. It not only sees more and enfolds more, it causes objects to bloom" -Hugh Prather |
| Interests: | 59: a.m. homes, alix olson, animals, anxiety, backs, big fish, bitch, books, brocolli, brutal honesty, cats, cotton t-shirts, country music, depression, education, elizabeth wurtzel, equal rights, expanding my mind, falling leaves, feminist studies, hiking, hugh prather, human services, indigo girls, kate millet, l-word, light bright, lightning, m.c. escher, melissa etheridge, nerds, novels, photography, provincetown, prozac nation, psychology, rain, ralph wiggum, reaching out, rosie the riveter, sand, simpsons, socks, soft sheets, sounds, stars, swoops, tatoos, tea, the simpsons, thinking, trees, useless information, veganism, walking, water, women, worms, writing |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 10: | an_open_book, bippin78, boobearsguppie, cinderellasdead, eeyore_grrl, flamewithin, glitterrayne, mountain_lion, riiaa, starlight_120 |  | 12: | bellyfire, daily_gems, ed_feminist, fat_fem_issue, feminist, feministbkworms, gayveggie, lecollage, overeaters_anon, paintedlayouts, simpsonfriends, subtlesisters |
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| Friend of: | 12: ___vogue, an_open_book, bippin78, boobearsguppie, chapelier_fou_, eeyore_grrl, fallngislkethis, i_liek_2_strarv, jays_baby_girl, mountain_lion, riiaa, starlight_120 |
| Member of: | 14: alonendepressed, beautifulcurves, daily_gems, ed_feminist, fat_fem_issue, feminist, feministbkworms, gayveggie, lecollage, overeaters_anon, paintedlayouts, sad_shy_lonely, simpsonfriends, wordoftheday |
| Account type: | Plus Account |
