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This story starts: I was at a friend's house, 故事的开头是这样的：我在一个朋友家里 and she had on her shelf a copy of the DSM manual, which is the manual of mental disorders. 在她的架子上有一本《DSM手册》，就是《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》 It lists every known mental disorder. 它列举了所有已知的精神疾病 And it used to be, back in the '50s, a very slim pamphlet. 而在50年...
And I've always felt guilty about that. 我一直感到心虚， I've always felt that somehow I was an impostor 一直觉得自己有点像冒充的 because my readers don't know what I have just told you. 因为读者不知道我今天说的。 It's known by some people in New Haven, obviously, but it is not generally known. 很明显，纽黑文市有人知道，但一般来说，这不为人知。 So one of the ...
And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, 我的工作经验让我得知，如果经过哪些检查，发现他有什么问题， that those would ultimately be his identity,and if they were his identity they would become my identity,that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded. 那将永久成为他的特性，如果这...
I began to yawn uncontrollably around Kempton Park, 我开始控制不住在坎普顿公园附近打哈欠 which apparently is what dogs also do when anxious — they yawn uncontrollably. 显然，当狗在焦虑的时候，也会情不自禁地打哈欠 And we got to Broadmoor. 之后就到了布罗德莫精神病院 And I got taken through gate after gate after gate after gate into the wellness center, 然后我又不停地穿过...
And they tried everything they had. 住院后，医生尽其所能。 They tried the usual psychotherapy. 他们试了常规的心理疗法， They tried every medication available in those days. 也尝试了那个时候所有可能的药物。 And they did have Tofranil and other things — Mellaril, who knows what. 他们用了盐酸丙咪嗪和其他药-,硫醚嗪，谁知道。 Nothing happened except that I got jaundiced fro...
Well, he said, "Can't we try a course of electroshock therapy?" “难道我们不能尝试一下点击疗法吗？” And you know why they agreed? They agreed to humor him. 你知道他们为什么同意了？他们不想和他争执。 They just thought, "Well, we'll give a course of 10. 他们想，就试10次电疗吧。 And so we'll lose a little time. Big deal. It doesn't make any differe...
For years, I had resisted medication, making many, many efforts to get off. 这些年来，我一直反对用药，为此会付出一切。 I felt that if I could manage without medication, 我感觉到我不服用药物也可以保持 I could prove that, after all, I wasn't really mentally ill, it was some terrible mistake. 我想要证明，毕竟我精神上没问题，只不过是诊断上犯得错误而已 My motto was the less m...
And there are also tons of collaborators. 并且游戏世界里有很多的人可以协作。 Everywhere you go, hundreds of thousands of people ready to work with you to achieve your epic mission. 不论你到了哪里，都会有成千上万的人等着和你合作去完成那些艰巨的任务。 That's not something that we have in real life that easily,this sense that at our fingertips are tons of collaborators. 在...
So in his kitchen — he was standing there with his wife, Judy, and his bodyguard Sean 话说在厨房，他正和妻子Judy站在一起，还有他的保镖Sean and I said, "You know how I said in my email that you might have a special brain anomaly that makes you special?" 然后我会说，“你记得我在电邮里写的关于你有一颗让你出众的独特奇异的大脑吗？” He said, "Yeah, it's an ...
And in the course of his childhood, 他的童年， he had 30 major surgical procedures. 经历了 30次重大外科手术。 And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, 他一直待在医院里，而正是这些治疗过程， as a result of which he now can walk. 让他现在有了行走的能力。 And while he was there, they sent tutors around to help him with his school wo...
Data. Data is inherently unsexy, but it can jumpstart an area's recovery. 看看数据。数据一向很枯燥，但能极大推动一个地区的重建 FEMA and the state will pay 85 percent of the cost of a federally declared disaster, FEMA和所在州会支付联邦宣布的灾害事件85%的损失 leaving the town to pay last 15 percent of the bill. 其余15%需要城镇自行承担 Now that expense can be huge, 这笔支出...
Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four. 三年前，我站在距离切尔诺贝利第四号核子反应炉大约一百码外。 My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk, 我的盖革放射量测定器，用来测量辐射量，指数狂飙， and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God. 当我越接近，机器的反应越...
Schizophrenia is a brain disease. 精神分裂是一种大脑疾病 Its defining feature is psychosis, or being out of touch with reality. 它的主要症状是幻想，或者是与现实脱离 Delusions and hallucinations are hallmarks of the illness. 妄想和幻觉是这个病的标志 Delusions are fixed and false beliefs that aren't responsive to evidence, 妄想是顽固，错误和不会因为现实而改变的信仰 and hal...
So the shorthand is five parents of four children in three states. 五位父母，生了四个孩子，生活在三个不同的州。 And there are people who think that the existence of my family somehow undermines or weakens or damages their family. 当然有些人会认为，这样的家庭的存在，在某种程度上破坏或削弱，甚至损害了他们的家庭。 And there are people who think that families like mine shouldn&#...
Many people have harmed me in my life, and I remember them all, 我这一生被许多人伤害过，而且我都记得 but the memories grow pale and faint in comparison with the people who've helped me. 但相较于受人恩惠，那些不堪回首的事就显得依稀模糊了 The fellow survivors, the fellow voice-hearers, the comrades and collaborators; 那些同病相怜的过来人、朋友和伙伴 the mother who never ga...
I'm now very proud to be a part of Intervoice, 身为“众声喧哗”的一员，我引以为荣! the organizational body of the International Hearing Voices Movement, 它是国际听声组织的筹划单位 an initiative inspired by the work of Professor Marius Romme and Dr. Sandra Escher, 在Sandra Escher博士和Marius Romme教授的著作启发下成立 which locates voice hearing as a survival strategy, a san...
And so on. There is a little bit of a difference there that is worth just thinking about. 等等…但即便是有些许的不同，那也值得仔细想一想。 And I remember when I was 12 years old,and I started playing tympani and percussion, and my teacher said,Well, how are we going to do this? You know, music is about listening. 我记得在我12岁的时候，我开始演奏定音鼓和打击乐，我的老师...
Is it unrealistic for them to hope or think that that child loves them, as some might, as most, wish? 对于家长来说，他们希望或者认为自己的孩子也许能够爱他们，这是不是比较不现实？ Well let me tell you, that child will be loyal, 假如家长这么做，孩子会变得很孝顺 and if your house is burning down, they're going to get you out of it. 假如家里着火了，他们会把你救出来 Wow. So, ...
Let's just look at something like, you know, 我们不妨看一个具体的问题 solving problems with making airlines safer. 比如如何让飞行变得更加安全 Yeah, I'm a million-mile flyer. 没错，我自己就经常要坐飞机 I do lots and lots of flying, 我飞过的里程超过一百万英里 and if I was at the FAA, what would I be doing a lot of direct observation of? 假如我是在法国航空联盟，我会特别...
And there's a book — John Gartner. 有本书–约翰·加特纳著的。 John Gartner wrote this book called "The Hypomanic Edge" 约翰·加特纳写过这本名叫“轻度躁狂边缘”的书 in which Christopher Columbus and Ted Turner and Steve Jobs 在书里克里斯托夫·哥伦布，特德·特纳和史蒂夫·乔布斯 and all these business minds have this edge to compete. 和所有这些商业头脑都有这种...