tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post755067109955489601..comments2023-10-25T03:24:19.388-07:00Comments on Further Adventures of Indigo Red: Seung-Hui Cho ExplainedIndigo Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488424336985581412noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-78440838757026474342007-05-16T07:29:00.000-07:002007-05-16T07:29:00.000-07:00Well, that changes nearly everything, Wordsmith fr...Well, that changes nearly everything, Wordsmith from Nantucket. My mental image isn't the Gorton's fisherman anymore. Now it's an Asian-American dressed up like the Gorton's fisherman hunched over a keypad. That's one of the wonderful things about the internet - we have our own videos of people in our heads complete divorced from reality. Yet, that created reality can at times be far more real and honest.<BR/><BR/>This was an article that got a lot of attention with much of that coming from Asia. I hope those have taken something away that can help the Asian view of mental illness.Indigo Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906787350123925867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-51151508136758285782007-05-16T01:28:00.000-07:002007-05-16T01:28:00.000-07:00I'd help validate what you wrote...but I'm basical...I'd help validate what you wrote...but I'm basically a twinkie, having grown up in white middle American culture and not so much Asian-American.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Hilarious when I get accused of being a white Christian right-winger on blogs and internet forums, when I am neither white nor Christian.The WordSmith from Nantuckethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15937868119894243815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-63572001296014176292007-05-15T06:59:00.000-07:002007-05-15T06:59:00.000-07:00Thank you, DJ Chuang. I had been hesitant to write...Thank you, DJ Chuang. I had been hesitant to write about this aspect of the shootings because I'm not directly Asian. But, I wsa well aware of the social status that mental illness brings upon the family.<BR/><BR/>To have found an Asian author who wrote what I knew and then to have that validated by you is appreciated.Indigo Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906787350123925867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-12790908397946448082007-05-15T02:41:00.000-07:002007-05-15T02:41:00.000-07:00too true and too sad.. thanks for noticing how Asi...too true and too sad.. thanks for noticing how Asian culture was a major factor in this tragedy.. oh how we need a transformation of Asian cultures to be less stifled by shame-based and to be more grace-filled to bring about healing and wholeness to Asians needing help..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12392119.post-83775857739411616992007-05-14T09:35:00.000-07:002007-05-14T09:35:00.000-07:00The green-nuts have their own take on mental illne...The green-nuts have their own take on mental illness.<BR/><BR/>"Banish your blues with a therapy that’s green<BR/><BR/>May 14 2007<BR/><BR/>by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail<BR/> <BR/>PEOPLE experiencing mental health problems should be “prescribed” outdoor walks and gardening, a report will today say.<BR/><BR/>A Mind report into the benefits of ecotherapy, or green therapy, argues that it should be used either in addition, or as an alternative to conventional drug or psychological therapy.<BR/><BR/>Ecotherapy includes such as activities as walks, gardening or conservation projects, exercise and even working on a farm."<BR/> <BR/>http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/health/tm_headline=banish-your-blues-with-a-therapy-that--8217-s-green&method=full&objectid=19097591&siteid=50082-name_page.html#story_continue<BR/><BR/>If only Cho had taken walk in the park, the innocent people would still be alive and all he world would live in peace and harmony.<BR/><BR/>Wow. I'm not sure which is scarier, the mentally ill who give in the their own delusions or the sane among us who give in to the delusions of the ecofreaks.Indigo Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17906787350123925867noreply@blogger.com