won't buy it wrote:
Wonder if the public library purchases this book? I mean they have Tropic of Cancer, right?
I borrow audio books all the time...Fast Girl is available at my library
won't buy it wrote:
Wonder if the public library purchases this book? I mean they have Tropic of Cancer, right?
I borrow audio books all the time...Fast Girl is available at my library
seriously... wrote:
won't buy it wrote:Wonder if the public library purchases this book? I mean they have Tropic of Cancer, right?
I borrow audio books all the time...Fast Girl is available at my library
It's read by Gilbert Gottfried
Yes. My library had it, and I read it maybe 3-4 weeks ago. Not worth buying but not because of the sexual content or anything, just because it had so little about her running or even about how she eventually was treated about her bipolar disorder. Sure it's suggestive but not nearly as graphic as I was afraid it might be. For some context I'm a conservative female in my 20s and in terms of graphic nature didn't find it to be bad.
voiceover artist wrote:
seriously... wrote:I borrow audio books all the time...Fast Girl is available at my library
It's read by Gilbert Gottfried
Thank you. I haven't laughed that hard in a month! If only that was true. Gilbert Gottfried would so be so perfect.
I have no desire to spend 35 bucks on her book but I would easily spend 50 bucks for an audio book of Gottfried reading the SFH story!
Benjaminz wrote:
. The only reason she was so prominent and visible is Hamilton money and influence was there to promote the crap out of her.
A far cry from the America's sweetheart rises to the top fairytale story you've been led to believe all these years.
She won the most NCAA titles by anyone and was extremely attractive. That is why she was popular.
Then she had some high profile meltdown which upped the intrigue.
wejo wrote:
Benjaminz wrote:. The only reason she was so prominent and visible is Hamilton money and influence was there to promote the crap out of her.
A far cry from the America's sweetheart rises to the top fairytale story you've been led to believe all these years.
She won the most NCAA titles by anyone and was extremely attractive. That is why she was popular.
Then she had some high profile meltdown which upped the intrigue.
So what you're saying is the Hamilton's mega millions and Hollywood advertising ties had absolutely nothing to do with it?
Just like the Kardashians money and Hollywood ties have absolutely nothing to do with their "miraculous" rise to fame?
Seriously, how naive can you be?
exthrower wrote:
Balian wrote:
She's a middle aged adult. Consenting too...she admitted that SHE LIKED IT. Why go all moral on the issue?
You admire a Woman who screws complete strangers for money?
Did you have parents who taught you values?
Posted the judgy judger. If she's okay with it, then what can you do? You can't protect people from themselves.
Correct, who are you to have morals in America today? Get out of the 1960's dude and get PC.
I can understand a woman who is in a desperate situation resorting to escorting on a very short term basis. There are likely a couple girls in every college xc race who have done it. College chicks are known to this stuff. finding a couple sugar daddies she knows is a better option. By Suzy seems addicted to it . I don't even think sh cares about the money, she enjoys the thrill of it.
She has a disease and ended up on the wrong meds.
These same meds could also turn your mother into a slut as well so give the girl a break.
Its easy for people to criticize a thing they didn't do. I think a lot of women are jealous of Suzy over the attention she gets. Everyone has their problems and she is willing to be open about hers while everyone else tries to hide theirs and talk trash behind peoples back or on the internet. Its a parthetic world we live in these days and social media does not help.
Ha, ha! You think the 60s were conservative.
Fastttt wrote:
Correct, who are you to have morals in America today? Get out of the 1960's dude and get PC.
So I want to weigh in a little on this issue.
I was a diagnosed with Bipolar disorder ~9 months ago. Also, for what it's worth, I competed in track/xc at the college level, so I feel a certain emotional tie to the SFH story that has been developing.
To start off with, this is how I describe mental illnesses (Bipolar, Depression, ADD, etc):
A mental illness is an exacerbation of feelings or emotions to the point where it interferes with your ability to function. For example, in the case of Bipolar, you alternate between stages of depression and mania (which are the 'highs'). I feel like the thing that makes mental illnesses hard for people to accept is that there really isn't an objective bar to gauge someone's mental well-being. I'm sure everyone on this board has had to deal with really tough times in their lives and really high times, and they never once thought to make the excuse of being mentally ill. So, it's very easy to say "I have experiences like that, and I don't make excuses, so why does that person need to use a cop out?" And you know what? I'm absolutely positive that some people have abused these kind of diagnoses as excuses for their actions. But for some people this really is a completely debilitating condition to have. Also, there are different degrees of a mental illness. In fact, there are even 2 categories within the diagnosis of Bipolar: Bipolar-I and Bipolar-II. So even when we compare 2 people with Bipolar, they could each have varying degrees of symptoms.
For another real life example, I say that Jordan Belfort (the main character in Wolf of Wall Street) is the quintessential personification of Bipolar. I say this, because when you are in a manic phase, and if you aren't on your mood stabilizers, you just go off the rails pretty much. I personally used a lot of drugs, mainly pot, but lighting up 3-5x a day. Your body and mind are in a constant state of euphoria. You want to screw anything that walks, and I would only sleep ~2-3 hrs per night, then wake up feeling completely energized. But, at the same time, you don't feel like you're out of control. You just feel like you're able to do whatever you want to do, and can get away with it.
Last thing I want to explain is the process for how one usually gets diagnosed for Bipolar. I imagine most never seek treatment when they are in a manic phase. Why would they? During this stage, everyday feels like the best day of your life. However, when you are in the depression stage, everyday feels like the worst day of your life, and it becomes a struggle just to get through the day. This is when most seek treatment, and they usually seek professional help for depression, not Bipolarity. So, the doctor will initially only prescribe anti-depressants. If one has Bipolar, and starts to take anti-depressants without mood stabilizers, that is when you really start to go manic. That's how it happened for me, and I assume it's a similar process for others. I believe this is what happened to SFH that led to her life becoming what it was during her escort phase.
However, the bottom line is Bipolarity (or any other mental illness) is not an excuse for what I have done. I have done several things that I regret, but just throwing around my diagnosis does not make everything better or undo any damages that I have done. Instead, I view it as a cautioning to how I have to live my life if I want to be accepted into society. It's not society's responsibility to cater to me in a special way just because of this. Now, I know that I have to be very careful about how I live, or else I know could end up hurting others or myself.
I hope this gave people some insight into Bipolar, and if you want another example of a Bipolar person, you can just google my user name.
-JP
JacoPastorius wrote:
So I want to weigh in a little on this issue.
I was a diagnosed with Bipolar disorder ~9 months ago. Also, for what it's worth, I competed in track/xc at the college level, so I feel a certain emotional tie to the SFH story that has been developing.
To start off with, this is how I describe mental illnesses (Bipolar, Depression, ADD, etc):
A mental illness is an exacerbation of feelings or emotions to the point where it interferes with your ability to function. For example, in the case of Bipolar, you alternate between stages of depression and mania (which are the 'highs'). I feel like the thing that makes mental illnesses hard for people to accept is that there really isn't an objective bar to gauge someone's mental well-being. I'm sure everyone on this board has had to deal with really tough times in their lives and really high times, and they never once thought to make the excuse of being mentally ill. So, it's very easy to say "I have experiences like that, and I don't make excuses, so why does that person need to use a cop out?" And you know what? I'm absolutely positive that some people have abused these kind of diagnoses as excuses for their actions. But for some people this really is a completely debilitating condition to have. Also, there are different degrees of a mental illness. In fact, there are even 2 categories within the diagnosis of Bipolar: Bipolar-I and Bipolar-II. So even when we compare 2 people with Bipolar, they could each have varying degrees of symptoms.
For another real life example, I say that Jordan Belfort (the main character in Wolf of Wall Street) is the quintessential personification of Bipolar. I say this, because when you are in a manic phase, and if you aren't on your mood stabilizers, you just go off the rails pretty much. I personally used a lot of drugs, mainly pot, but lighting up 3-5x a day. Your body and mind are in a constant state of euphoria. You want to screw anything that walks, and I would only sleep ~2-3 hrs per night, then wake up feeling completely energized. But, at the same time, you don't feel like you're out of control. You just feel like you're able to do whatever you want to do, and can get away with it.
Last thing I want to explain is the process for how one usually gets diagnosed for Bipolar. I imagine most never seek treatment when they are in a manic phase. Why would they? During this stage, everyday feels like the best day of your life. However, when you are in the depression stage, everyday feels like the worst day of your life, and it becomes a struggle just to get through the day. This is when most seek treatment, and they usually seek professional help for depression, not Bipolarity. So, the doctor will initially only prescribe anti-depressants. If one has Bipolar, and starts to take anti-depressants without mood stabilizers, that is when you really start to go manic. That's how it happened for me, and I assume it's a similar process for others. I believe this is what happened to SFH that led to her life becoming what it was during her escort phase.
However, the bottom line is Bipolarity (or any other mental illness) is not an excuse for what I have done. I have done several things that I regret, but just throwing around my diagnosis does not make everything better or undo any damages that I have done. Instead, I view it as a cautioning to how I have to live my life if I want to be accepted into society. It's not society's responsibility to cater to me in a special way just because of this. Now, I know that I have to be very careful about how I live, or else I know could end up hurting others or myself.
I hope this gave people some insight into Bipolar, and if you want another example of a Bipolar person, you can just google my user name.
-JP
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JacoPastorius wrote:
So I want to weigh in a little on this issue.
I was a diagnosed with Bipolar disorder ~9 months ago. Also, for what it's worth, I competed in track/xc at the college level, so I feel a certain emotional tie to the SFH story that has been developing.
To start off with, this is how I describe mental illnesses (Bipolar, Depression, ADD, etc):
A mental illness is an exacerbation of feelings or emotions to the point where it interferes with your ability to function. For example, in the case of Bipolar, you alternate between stages of depression and mania (which are the 'highs'). I feel like the thing that makes mental illnesses hard for people to accept is that there really isn't an objective bar to gauge someone's mental well-being. I'm sure everyone on this board has had to deal with really tough times in their lives and really high times, and they never once thought to make the excuse of being mentally ill. So, it's very easy to say "I have experiences like that, and I don't make excuses, so why does that person need to use a cop out?" And you know what? I'm absolutely positive that some people have abused these kind of diagnoses as excuses for their actions. But for some people this really is a completely debilitating condition to have. Also, there are different degrees of a mental illness. In fact, there are even 2 categories within the diagnosis of Bipolar: Bipolar-I and Bipolar-II. So even when we compare 2 people with Bipolar, they could each have varying degrees of symptoms.
For another real life example, I say that Jordan Belfort (the main character in Wolf of Wall Street) is the quintessential personification of Bipolar. I say this, because when you are in a manic phase, and if you aren't on your mood stabilizers, you just go off the rails pretty much. I personally used a lot of drugs, mainly pot, but lighting up 3-5x a day. Your body and mind are in a constant state of euphoria. You want to screw anything that walks, and I would only sleep ~2-3 hrs per night, then wake up feeling completely energized. But, at the same time, you don't feel like you're out of control. You just feel like you're able to do whatever you want to do, and can get away with it.
Last thing I want to explain is the process for how one usually gets diagnosed for Bipolar. I imagine most never seek treatment when they are in a manic phase. Why would they? During this stage, everyday feels like the best day of your life. However, when you are in the depression stage, everyday feels like the worst day of your life, and it becomes a struggle just to get through the day. This is when most seek treatment, and they usually seek professional help for depression, not Bipolarity. So, the doctor will initially only prescribe anti-depressants. If one has Bipolar, and starts to take anti-depressants without mood stabilizers, that is when you really start to go manic. That's how it happened for me, and I assume it's a similar process for others. I believe this is what happened to SFH that led to her life becoming what it was during her escort phase.
However, the bottom line is Bipolarity (or any other mental illness) is not an excuse for what I have done. I have done several things that I regret, but just throwing around my diagnosis does not make everything better or undo any damages that I have done. Instead, I view it as a cautioning to how I have to live my life if I want to be accepted into society. It's not society's responsibility to cater to me in a special way just because of this. Now, I know that I have to be very careful about how I live, or else I know could end up hurting others or myself.
I hope this gave people some insight into Bipolar, and if you want another example of a Bipolar person, you can just google my user name.
-JP
JacoPastorius wrote:
So I want to weigh in a little on this issue.
I was a diagnosed with Bipolar disorder ~9 months ago. Also, for what it's worth, I competed in track/xc at the college level, so I feel a certain emotional tie to the SFH story that has been developing.
To start off with, this is how I describe mental illnesses (Bipolar, Depression, ADD, etc):
A mental illness is an exacerbation of feelings or emotions to the point where it interferes with your ability to function. For example, in the case of Bipolar, you alternate between stages of depression and mania (which are the 'highs'). I feel like the thing that makes mental illnesses hard for people to accept is that there really isn't an objective bar to gauge someone's mental well-being. I'm sure everyone on this board has had to deal with really tough times in their lives and really high times, and they never once thought to make the excuse of being mentally ill. So, it's very easy to say "I have experiences like that, and I don't make excuses, so why does that person need to use a cop out?" And you know what? I'm absolutely positive that some people have abused these kind of diagnoses as excuses for their actions. But for some people this really is a completely debilitating condition to have. Also, there are different degrees of a mental illness. In fact, there are even 2 categories within the diagnosis of Bipolar: Bipolar-I and Bipolar-II. So even when we compare 2 people with Bipolar, they could each have varying degrees of symptoms.
For another real life example, I say that Jordan Belfort (the main character in Wolf of Wall Street) is the quintessential personification of Bipolar. I say this, because when you are in a manic phase, and if you aren't on your mood stabilizers, you just go off the rails pretty much. I personally used a lot of drugs, mainly pot, but lighting up 3-5x a day. Your body and mind are in a constant state of euphoria. You want to screw anything that walks, and I would only sleep ~2-3 hrs per night, then wake up feeling completely energized. But, at the same time, you don't feel like you're out of control. You just feel like you're able to do whatever you want to do, and can get away with it.
Last thing I want to explain is the process for how one usually gets diagnosed for Bipolar. I imagine most never seek treatment when they are in a manic phase. Why would they? During this stage, everyday feels like the best day of your life. However, when you are in the depression stage, everyday feels like the worst day of your life, and it becomes a struggle just to get through the day. This is when most seek treatment, and they usually seek professional help for depression, not Bipolarity. So, the doctor will initially only prescribe anti-depressants. If one has Bipolar, and starts to take anti-depressants without mood stabilizers, that is when you really start to go manic. That's how it happened for me, and I assume it's a similar process for others. I believe this is what happened to SFH that led to her life becoming what it was during her escort phase.
However, the bottom line is Bipolarity (or any other mental illness) is not an excuse for what I have done. I have done several things that I regret, but just throwing around my diagnosis does not make everything better or undo any damages that I have done. Instead, I view it as a cautioning to how I have to live my life if I want to be accepted into society. It's not society's responsibility to cater to me in a special way just because of this. Now, I know that I have to be very careful about how I live, or else I know could end up hurting others or myself.
I hope this gave people some insight into Bipolar, and if you want another example of a Bipolar person, you can just google my user name.
-JP
Thanks for posting.
I personally know two people who suffer from bi-polar disorder and one of whom is a close friend. It was extremely hard to see my one friend once end up for a stay in hospital after really going off the rails.
The worst thing is/was my friend wanted to keep it hidden.
The best thing anyone has done - Clara Hughes who apparently had depression, not necessarily manic depression which is what bi-polar is. She did away with the shame and self stigmatization which is what my friend does even now. Clara Hughes, multi olympic medallist in two different disiplines brought attention to mental illness by her trans Canada cycle two years ago.
Believe you me JP I do have more than a little insight here and am angry as hell at a lot of the judgmental posts on this thread.
Cut Suzy some slack. She does have a mental illness undiagnosed for most of her life. A tragedy about her brother!
As opposed to your sister and mom who phucked strangers, but didn't get any money from it?
I hope that her daughter is ok (I mean no ADD or bi polar condition). It's very genetic...
Looking at her daughter in the 20/20 episode, I think that it's possible that...
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Good ol' Screwzy.
Come on now, be nice.