For Ann Harris

THE CASE OF KIMI

Kimi: My husband left me about six months ago. That's really where it all started again. I had a lot of trouble when as a teenager, well, all the way through college. I just eat a lot sometimes. Usually when I'm feeling bad. Then I throw up. I just ate so much, I just throw up, and it's just the relief. I know that sounds gross, but I just feel such a release. When I'm feeling bad, it can just really help me just feel better. But anyway, my husband left about six months ago. He left me for a younger woman. He was cheating.

I thought I had a handle on all this. I'm a professional woman, and feel on top of the world. My career is going great. I was on top of my weight. Just since he's gone, I just feel really awful again, and the only thing that makes me feel better is just sitting down, when I'm home alone at night. It's not every night, but maybe a couple times a week. I just eat. I eat and eat. I mean I can do a whole thing of ice cream, and a whole tray of cookies. Just go through it, and then I just throw up. I hate myself, because of course I'm going to gain weight. I mean, I know that. But then once I get rid of it, just kind of washes over me that I just feel better.

THE CASE OF JULIO

Julio: Since I was young, as long as I can remember, this has been a thing with me. Focusing, it's been a problem, and now it's affecting my career. It's always affected me career to some degree, but now it's really kind of affecting things in a bigger way. I'm making a lot of careless mistakes and that's a problem. At times my boss will be talking to me and I won't even know it. I'll just be spaced out somewhere, I won't even know he'd talking to me and then someone will knock me in the side and I'll realize it. For example, they tasked me with organizing office events and things like that sometimes. They did a couple times, until I screwed them up so many times, but it was always the details, I just forgot the details and certain things that would make things fall apart. I lose things a lot and forget important dates, and just basic information all the time too, and so it's a frustrating thing. It's something that's been going on for a while and something that's definitely been affecting me.

THE CASE OF DANEER

Daneer: I was at this party the other day. There was this fine looking woman over there. I thought, "I'll do my old shtick like I always do. I'll see if I can pick her up, take her home, have my way with her." I went over there, I approached her and then she was a fat chick, so I figured she probably needed some help. I let her know that I was around so that maybe she could come home with me. She's kind of desperate. I was thinking maybe I could do like I did with the last chick that I had, the last girl I picked up here at this bar. That one went okay but she seemed like an angel but then I found out later she was a devil. I mean she caused me a lot of pain. I got really, really mad with her. In fact, I even told her, I said, "If you don't do what I ask you to do, what I tell you to do, I'm gonna kill myself." 

I was thinking about that when I approached this woman. Well, she wasn't too excited about hanging out with me. I thought for sure being the good looking guy that I am, that it wouldn't be any trouble. I approached her, she was not interested, so I went out and I slashed her tires because I saw what she drove in. Then I went home. Then I thought about it a little bit more and I thought, "I wonder what would happen if I slashed my wrist? Maybe I'd get her attention at that point." What do you think?