day : 23/11/2010 2 results

Kanye West’s 20 funniest outbursts

Kanye Kanye West's new album 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is out today (22 November). What better excuse to look back at the arch egotist's funniest ever quotes? 1. Kanye has been talking up '...Dark Twisted Fantasy' for a while. Back in August he promised it would be his "masterwork. That Avatar-level [work]. I try to compete against the past... Michelangelo, Picasso, the pyramids.” So modest. ...

Behind the Facade, Post-Traumatic Stress

PTSD A soldier returns from war unable to get the images of battle out of his head. An earthquake survivor rides out long, anxiety-filled nights. A young woman in a pretty floral dress walks her dog along the streets of Manhattan. All three may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The woman walking her dog is Robin Hutchins, 25. She looks confident and self-assured, and few would guess that a year ago she discovered that she had the stress disorder. “When I tell people I have P.T.S.D., it’s like I have to convince them it’s a real issue,” she said. The disorder — in which a traumatic experience leaves the patient suffering from severe anxiety for months or years after the event — is often associated with battlefield combat and natural disasters. But as Dr. Frank Ochberg, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University, noted in an interview, the typical trigger is more mundane — most commonly, a traffic accident. In Ms. Hutchins’s case, it was sexual violence. During her first year in college, ...
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