"Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try; they're gonna love you.
Well, I've always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink..?"
-The Man,
Pink Floyd,
Have a Cigar
All Red Herrings are Truly Pink.
A Soldier So Brave He Doesn't Need a Gun...
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from Planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain."
The (Other) End of the Universe.
Cooper: Have either of you fellas heard of the White Lodge
Hawk: Where’d you hear of it?
Cooper: Well, it was the last thing Major Briggs said to me before he disappeared.
Hawk: Cooper, you may be fearless in this world, but there are other worlds.
Cooper: Tell me more.
Hawk: My people believe the White Lodge is the place where the spirits that rule men and nature here reside
Truman: Local legend, goes way back.
Hawk: There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge, the shadow-self of the White Lodge. The legend says that every soul must pass through there on the way to perfection. There you will meet your own shadow-self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold…but it is said if you face the Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.
"Sontarans! Perverting the Course of Human History!"
Speaking of Perversions...
Here's where it gets troubling - The Denial of Ritual Abuse.
Firstly, Clara is obviously wrong - and there is more going on here than is being admitted.
Pink has clearly been regularly buggered in that (Don't) care home, and the experience in Iraq for which he clearly cannot begin to forgive himself is also clearly real and not at all imaginary.
He did kill that woman, he is a murderer, and it isn't all just disproportionate or misplaced guilt within his head.
"Your sins are terrible - and it is just that you suffer.
Your life, could be redeemed, but I know that you don't believe that.
You will not change."
Albino Lucciani,
Godfather Part III
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe, persistent emotional reaction to a traumatic event that severely impairs one’s life. It is classified as an anxiety disorder because of its symptoms. Not every traumatic event leads to PTSD, however. There are two criteria that must be present to qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD:
- The patient must have directly experienced, witnessed, or learned of a life-threatening or seriously injurious event.
- The patients' response is intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Children may behave with agitation or with disorganized behavior.
Triggering Events. PTSD is triggered by violent or traumatic events that are usually outside the normal range of human experience. War is a prime example. There is some evidence that events most likely to trigger PTSD are those that involve deliberate and destructive behavior (murder, rape) and those that are prolonged or physically challenging. Such events include, but are not limited to, experiencing or witnessing sexual assaults, accidents, military combat, natural disasters (such as earthquakes), or unexpected deaths of loved ones. PTSD may also occur in people who have serious illness and receive aggressive treatments or who have close family members or friends with such conditions.
Symptoms of PTSD. There are three basic sets of symptoms associated with PTSD. They may begin immediately after the event or can develop up to a year afterward:
- Re-experiencing. In such cases, patients persistently re-experience the trauma in at least one of the following ways: in recurrent images, thoughts, flashbacks, dreams, or feelings of distress at situations that remind them of the traumatic event. Children may engage in play, in which traumatic events are enacted repeatedly.
- Avoidance. Patients may avoid reminders of the event, such as thoughts, people, or any other factors that trigger recollection. They tend to have an emotional numbness, a sense of being in a daze or of losing contact with their own identity or even external reality. They may be unable to remember important aspects of the event.
- Increased Arousal. This includes symptoms of anxiety or heightened awareness of danger (sleeplessness, irritability, being easily startled, or becoming overly vigilant to unknown dangers).
To further qualify for a diagnosis of PTSD, patients must have at least one symptom in the re-experiencing category, three avoidance symptoms, and two arousal symptoms. Symptoms are chronic (3 months or more). Symptoms should also not be associated with alcohol, medications, or drugs and should not be intensifications of a pre-existing psychological disorder.
Acute Stress Disorder. In a syndrome called acute stress disorder, symptoms of PTSD occur within 2 days to 4 weeks after the traumatic event. Most people with acute stress disorder go on to develop PTSD.
Long-Term Outlook. The long-term impact of a traumatic event is uncertain. PTSD may cause physical changes in the brain, and in some cases the disorder can last a lifetime.
"What will the Doctor find at the end of the universe?
Done that one.
Utopia, Tochlophane, Futurekind, a watch, Last of the Chan/tho', The Master, The Big Crunch, and...
Oh dear - "Variety"...
What scares the Doctor?
Boe - Just a Great Big Heed with a Great Big...
Ghosts of the past and future, and a little boy who doesn't want to join the army.
"Your sins are terrible, and it is just that you suffer.
Your life, could be redeemed, but I know that you don't believe that.
You will not change."
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