(Alvarez 1997) is a very good book, in fact I read it in one day. Which was great, but then at the end it made you want more. In the beginning of the book, it seems all of Yolanda’s sisters feel betrayed and hurt that Yolanda would write a book about their lives. Even though it is labeled a fictional book, the book seems to be based off their lives. The first chapter was told by FiFi, the youngest sister.
Most of the time people are diagnosed with PTSD on a higher scale. A lot of the times people do not even notice that people around them have PTSD. Whether young or old, if you experience some sort of traumatic event you are likely to receive PTSD. Medications can come in handy for a lot of the patients and sometimes even the smallest thing as family support can be the cure to get over any symptoms. In the case of my friend Alyssa, she has overcome PTSD even though she can recall the day of her event just as it was yesterday.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, is a book about learning how to see people for who they are and what’s inside. Naomi, the main character, is suffering the condition of amnesia. Amnesia is when you forget everything in past years. This book is written by Gabrielle Zevin, who is also the author to the book Elsewhere. The one main character in this story is Naomi, although the some of the other characters are Will, James and Mr. Porter (Naomi’s dad).
One thing that I do notice in my grandmother that coincides with my research is that a majority of her forgetfulness involves short-term memory loss. When I ask my grandmother about her childhood, or how she met my grandfather, she remembers it like it was
January was finally nearing its closure and God had allowed the wind to breathe again, and to ripple through our summer-tortured air that hung heavily on my shoulders. I was making my way to the Carramar tribe when my ivory stallion noticed the crystal sparkles of a nearby billabong. With no denying the horse of pure satisfaction, I allowed her to canter excitingly over to her relief. I strolled without purpose through the maze of dead grass, tall enough to keep me camouflaged. My eyes wandered through the blades stretching to the sky when they settled on a young Aboriginal girl weaving a basket by a small bark hut.
In conclusion the sugar glider is a very small animal that needs a lot of attention and also a playmate! A play mate could be another female or male, it could just be a friends sugar glider just to have someone to play with all the time and if you have a male and a female then you could have babies, which they have between 2- 4 babies, in the wild they only have 2 litters a year but being domesticated they can have between 2- 3 litters a year: their normal time to get pregnant is august till november, then they are only pregnant for 12 weeks all together. While you’re sugar glider is pregnant she might be very aggressive because they hold their young in a pouch and if the baby comes loose of the mothers tit then it will die because the joey can not reattach to the mothers tit, so means that if you move her around a lot while she is carrying the babies they can come loose and not be able to live. After 9 weeks the babies will
What I loved about the place was the slow and easy pace of life and the friendliness of the local people. The following year, 1986, I went to the south coast, to a much larger resort, but it wasn’t the same. There were too many British people there, it was really noisy and I couldn’t practise my Spanish because everyone spoke English. Luis and I got married in 1988 when he qualified as a doctor. Since then we’ve been to lots of different countries, even Australia and South America, but we keep going back to the village where we first met.
Patients who have bilateral medial temporal lobe lesions have an inability to learn and remember items of factual knowledge. They can’t remember people that they met the day before. They can’t remember what they did the day before. Some people will further parcel explicit memories as episodic (we remember events) or semantic (we remember facts). As Kandel (2000) points out, in either case the content of all explicit memories can be expressed by declarative statements such as “I was here yesterday” (episodic) and “The hippocampus has something to do with memory”(semantic).
Over time this becomes a routine forcing my soul to scream in desperation for air. I tend to close my eyes and day dream about a quiet and peaceful river with beautiful birds flying around me. As a child my father would take the family on road trips around Colombia excluding Cano Cristales, a paradise inside a natural park in the state of Meta, because it was part of the “red zone” where the guerrilla took over. Spending nine years of my life in a town where people vacation becomes suffocating. Life seems surreal with fake smiles and repetitive conversations.
One strength of the individual differences approach is that it takes experiences and personalities into account. For example, Thigpen and Cleckley’s case study on Eve White was very detailed and involved longitudinal, unstructured interviews, hypnosis and psychometric tests to gain a wider understanding of her past and her different personalities. This means that although it is time consuming, expensive and arguably subjective, the approach is holistic and specific to the individual whose experiences and personalities may be different to those of others. The approach allows the study of rare behaviours. Multiple personality disorder was very rare around the time of Eve White’s case and quite unheard of.