House

wouldn't that be a trip? mention demeaning sexual acts and inappropriate behavior to a Narc and see if his brain shows any different response when reading a menu of Chinese food. Heck I think we could sell out a theatre to all us victims while we just sit back and watch each other's Ns fail the MRI tests. I recently had to have a Spec-T Scan of my brain. The last one was 14 years ago, just a year after I became ill. I still had some Bells Palsy and had to be brought to the hospital for the test. I remember them showing me the results and it proved serious lack of oxygenated blood flow to various parts of my brain. Emotions lit up but many were either blunted or overly triggered neurons in my brain. It's not a fun test... it takes an hour of lying on a very uncomfortable board, with your head totally strapped in so you don't move at all! My back & legs were screaming by the time I finished. They asked me various questions about my exNH, my children, my clinical depression, my feelings about my disability, my feelings about my inability to work and earn a living as well as mundane stuff like the weather, what I had for lunch, where I buy my clothes, etc. This last time my brain lit up like a Christmas tree! They said I had established new pathways! Since my insurance wouldn't pay for rehab I remember doing crossword puzzles and then of course caring for my children, journaling, short walks with my dog... all to try to regain some sense of normalcy. The doctors said I had done a great job and also pointed out that emotionally I was very normal even empathetic, while accounting for the depression & PTSD issues. The only downside was muscle control and pain centers were still messed up... but that's to expected with M.S. I secretly wanted to take all the films and shove them under my exNH's nose and scream - I'm not crazy! But I will save that for any time he tries to get custody from me. HEE HEE HEE ~~~~~~~~~ The truth will set you free... but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem Visit My Abuse Website

as someone who suffers from chronic, relentless pain - it does start to absorb your energy, your thoughts, everything... it can make you seem narcissistIC and even heartless at times because you have no energy or patience for anything but blunt truth... ...chronic pain sufferers really live in a special sort of hell no one should ever have to go through. I have heard Hugh Laurie interviewed about how he's studied people with chronic pain and folded it into House's character. ~~~~~~~~~ The truth will set you free... but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem Visit My Abuse Website

I like to watch that show because they purposely make Charlie look like an N a-hole. And Charlie Sheen does a superb job in his "role"...cough, cough...I think he is likely an N given his latest round of marital problems. I know, I know...his first wife Denise Richards was a publicity hound, tactless at times, and ran off with her former BFFs husband, but I do think she probably was verbally abused by Sheen, as she now claims. As we all know, being with an N can destabilize us, temporarily lose our minds to the point we don't even recognize ourselves and even flee into arms we shouldn't.