VALPARAISO — Without her confessing, no one would be able to tell Ashley Young is battling a rare disease, commonly referred to as “cheerleader syndrome.” With a shy but contagiously positive personality, the 15-year-old Valparaiso teen does everything any normal teen would — even more than some. She’s a freshman student-athlete at Valparaiso High School. She’s a diver, involved in multiple school clubs including Future Medical Professionals, has plans to work as a lifeguard and dreams of studying biomedical science in college. As her mom, Michelle Young, said, everything Ashley does, she does it with confidence and a smile on her face. But there’s something happening behind that smile — literally. Over…
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There was a real sense of relief for Michael Koryta fans when the bestselling author finally killed off the evil Blackwell brothers several novels ago, and so it’s with dread to see the son of one of the brothers appear in Koryta’s latest mystery thriller, “If She Wakes.” Still a teen, but already a perfect sociopath, Dax Blackwell is hunting down a missing cell phone and trying to eliminate anyone who stands in his way. That includes Tara Beckley, who was almost murdered by another competitor for the phone and now is a prisoner of locked-in syndrome, confined to a hospital bed, totally alert but unable to communicate in any…
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What happens when a psychotherapist becomes a patient? Ask Lori Gottlieb | Books and Literature
After two years, he was done. The man Lori Gottlieb thought she was going to marry didn’t want to raise her 8-year-old son. He had two kids entering college and wasn’t interested in parenting another child. And just like that, Gottlieb, a Los Angeles-based therapist and the author of the weekly “Dear Therapist” column in The Atlantic, was a mess. She couldn’t sleep. She couldn’t concentrate. The therapist needed a therapist herself. Gottlieb’s new book, “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone,” chronicles her decision to get help, what she learned from it, and how it informed her work with her own patients. The book resonates, Gottlieb said, because readers see…
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TV Tidbits: WFU alum brings his sarcastic cyborg Barry back to ‘Archer’ | Entertainment
The bawdy animated comedy “Archer” is back for its 10th season Wednesday on cable channel FXX, and recurring villain Barry is back as well. Barry, whose voice is provided by Wake Forest alumnus Dave Willis, has been a recurring foe since the first season of the show. “Archer” started as a spy spoof, but in recent years has reinvented the premise each year, recasting the same characters in different genres — film noir one year, 1930s tropical adventure the next. The new season, dubbed “Archer 1999,” is a parody of sci-fi movies such as “Alien,” re-imagining the characters as a dysfunctional spaceship crew. Barry started in the first season of…
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O.J. Simpson bragged about steamy ‘hot-tub hookup’ with Kris Jenner, former manager claims
O.J. Simpson bragged that he had steamy sex with Kris Kardashian, his best friend’s wife, during a 1990s hot-tub tryst that ruined their marriages and friendships, claims the disgraced footballer’s former manager. Simpson said he and his then-wife Nicole, and Robert and Kris Kardashian, were in a Jacuzzi one night while vacationing together, according to Norman Pardo in his new documentary, “Who Killed Nicole?” Nicole and Robert turned in, leaving O.J., then 44, and Kris, then 36, alone in the bubbling water. Kris and Nicole were also good friends. “‘O.J. said he stood up, pulled his shorts down and, I’ll give you exactly what he said: ‘Her eyes bugged out…
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From cheating exes to stalking nightmare, women reveal why they’re single
WITH marriage rates at an all-time low and a quarter of us preferring to watch Netflix than have sex, Fabulous asks four women to reveal the truth behind their relationship-free life. ‘I WAS STALKED’ Rachael, 25, is an administrator. Lancton Rachael has been single for six months after being stalked by a man she met on a dating app “As my phone beeped, I felt sick. Before even reading the message, I knew it would be abusive. I was right: ‘I’m going to rape you and then burn you alive.’ “I’d been single for six months following a year-long relationship when I decided to download a dating app in February…
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World Health Organization deems “gaming disorder” mental health problem
The World Health Organization has officially announced “gaming disorder” as a mental health condition. This comes as part of the 11th edition of its international Classification of Diseases which was released Monday. According to an article by CNN, Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, the WHO Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse member who proposed the diagnosis described three key symptoms to diagnose the disorder. These symptoms are listed on the official WHO website as follows: a pattern of gaming behavior (“digital-gaming” or “video-gaming”) characterized by impaired control over gaming increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities continuation…
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Man caught with knife in major Plymouth street
A man was caught with a knife in a major Plymouth street. Antony Bell, aged 40, was arrested after telling a stranger that he had the blade, Plymouth Crown Court heard. He had denied possession of a five-inch kitchen knife in his home street of Budshead Road in Whitleigh. But Bell was found guilty after a trial in February. Neil Whittle, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said police carrying out an operation in the area were alerted by a member of the public. He said that a man sitting next to him had told him he was carrying a knife. The case was heard at Plymouth Crown Court (Image: File…
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