FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/10/03 08:46 AM
Original way to meet Mayson!! 
Jose
Jose
Re: FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/10/03 11:00 AM
Hi,
Great part.
Don't like Mayson.
He seems to describe Lois.
Great part.
Don't like Mayson. He seems to describe Lois.
Re: FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/10/03 12:49 PM
Nice part, Yvonne.
The likening the loss of one he hadn't met yet, to the grief over one who died was done very nicely. You have almost all of the Kubler-Ross concepts in there (denial, rageand anger, bargaining,depression and acceptance) Another even closer to what you're using, is the Westberg Model (Shock and Denial, emotions erupt, anger, illness, panic, guilt, depression and loneliness, reentry difficulties, hope, affirming reality) -- check them out if you haven't.
Well, enough of my lecture. The important thing is that, again, you're therapeutic concepts are very professional and appropriate.
Am enjoying this immensely.
Barb.
The likening the loss of one he hadn't met yet, to the grief over one who died was done very nicely. You have almost all of the Kubler-Ross concepts in there (denial, rageand anger, bargaining,depression and acceptance) Another even closer to what you're using, is the Westberg Model (Shock and Denial, emotions erupt, anger, illness, panic, guilt, depression and loneliness, reentry difficulties, hope, affirming reality) -- check them out if you haven't.
Well, enough of my lecture. The important thing is that, again, you're therapeutic concepts are very professional and appropriate.
Am enjoying this immensely.
Barb.
Re: FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/10/03 01:16 PM
Mayson Drake? 
I can't believe it.
gerry
I can't believe it.
gerry
Re: FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/10/03 08:54 PM
/me giggles
I'm the only one who approves of Mayson, I gather.![[Linked Image]](http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/forum/graemlins/evil.gif)
I loved her intro, and she seems to be just what Clark needs right now. Although the fact that he can't/won't tell her about Lois indicates that the relationship is doomed. Poor Mayson. 
Very believable; and great seeing the gradual progress, and the overcoming of each hurdle in turn.
One thing did bother me.I have, thank God, no personal experience with addiction. But this contradicts most "mainstream" thought about recovering addicts/alcoholics, from what I understand.
According to AA, for example, addiction is never cured. An addict or alcoholic is "recovering" for the rest of their life.
Kind of like you never get over the loss of a loved one. You just get better at dealing with their absence.
Not that I think Clark is going to have a relapse. (You wouldn't do that to him, Yvonne, right? I said, RIGHT?) But neither do I think there's such a thing as "fully cured." I think he'll have to be careful to avoid red kryptonite for life -- for entirely different reasons than the non-alt-Clark.
I'm the only one who approves of Mayson, I gather.
I loved her intro, and she seems to be just what Clark needs right now. Although the fact that he can't/won't tell her about Lois indicates that the relationship is doomed. Poor Mayson. Very believable; and great seeing the gradual progress, and the overcoming of each hurdle in turn.One thing did bother me.
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He came to believe that he might never be entirely cured. He’d reach a point where he could manage his addiction, and that was the best that could be hoped for.
George rejected that theory outright, naturally. He was positive, he said, that Clark would make a full recovery and undoubtedly emerge from the experience a stronger, more self-assured man than ever before. That was George’s experience of these things, he said.
George rejected that theory outright, naturally. He was positive, he said, that Clark would make a full recovery and undoubtedly emerge from the experience a stronger, more self-assured man than ever before. That was George’s experience of these things, he said.
According to AA, for example, addiction is never cured. An addict or alcoholic is "recovering" for the rest of their life.
Kind of like you never get over the loss of a loved one. You just get better at dealing with their absence.
Not that I think Clark is going to have a relapse. (You wouldn't do that to him, Yvonne, right? I said, RIGHT?) But neither do I think there's such a thing as "fully cured." I think he'll have to be careful to avoid red kryptonite for life -- for entirely different reasons than the non-alt-Clark.
Re: FDK-Addicted (6/?) - 12/11/03 09:06 AM
Yvonne,
I'm playing catchup again.
not enough time in the day
great parts -
you always write poignant and thought provoking stories
keep it coming
merry
I'm playing catchup again.
not enough time in the day
great parts -
you always write poignant and thought provoking stories
keep it coming
merry