- Mar 2019
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www.mirror-mirror.org www.mirror-mirror.org
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Sometimes those voices try to fool you into believing they really are your only friend.
connect to obsessed
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beyondocd.org beyondocd.org
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Millions of people are affected by OCD. Current estimates are that approximately 1 in 40 adults in the U.S. (about 2.3% of the population) and 1 in 100 children have this condition.
where is this study from?
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The DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition)
semi citation??
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Movies and television programs sometimes feature characters who are supposed to have OCD. Unfortunately, films and TV shows often mistake or exaggerate Obsessive Compulsive Disorder symptoms or play it for laughs. People with OCD know it’s no laughing matter.
Major connection to Obsessed by Allison Britz!! Allison makes general assumptions about OCD like "Freaking out over germs, arranging things in straight lines. Everyone knows OCD". This is parallel to the statement here because a girl with OCD made the general assumption that everyone makes in movies and TV shows or just everyday life. But as she learned what it is she realized that she had it too.
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World Health Organization
citation?
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- Jan 2019
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The chain of these three articles really takes you through Boogaards life in a different way. It starts off in part one by showing you his early life and him growing up. In part two, they talk about how hockey impacted his life. And in part 3 they turn to his addiction and how it resulted in his death. The formation of this article was made to allow readers to get attached to Boogaard in the beginning and relate to many people, but then take it all away and draw attention to things like CTE
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It did not show a single punch.
this statement I can't tell whether its designed to be good or bad? On one hand the video showed the loving caring side of Boogaard that fans often didn't see because they were busy watching him beat up some other dude on the ice. But Boogaard also worked his entire life to become this great enforcer, this great fighter and in this video a tribute to him they didn't show a single image of him doing what he did as his job and for his life.
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Boogaard’s family and friends had noticed an indifference in his fighting.
Everyone is noticing all of these changes in Boogaards behaviors yet why did no one do anything to ensure Boogaards health and saftey?
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He chose New York
Was Boogaard trying to get away from being monitored by his brother?
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Derek Boogaard increasingly wanted more pills. He became adept at getting them
This helps show the build up of Boogaards addiction
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“He didn’t have a personality anymore. He just was kind of — a blank face.”
Even though people were noticing the changes that were so difficult to notice with C.T.E, no one seemed to be doing anything about it other than warning his teammates about the prescription drugs.
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impulsiveness, mood swings, even addiction.
All of these things would be hard to diagnose CTE to Boogaard because his job was based on impulsiveness and if he was getting concussions so frequently people who were close to him could have found it difficult to tell whether it was an abnormal behavior or just a side effect to the concussions.
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Two other N.H.L. enforcers died, reportedly suicides, stoking a debate about the toll of their role in hockey.
if they knew that enforcers were dying, and though it was never directly connected to their jobs as enforcers, why didn't the NHL make stricter rules on fights at the time?
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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It was his hands that I was more worried about.”
I feel like the pathologist or any doctor would be more concerned about the psychological damage the concussions would have on his future. Sure life with damaged hands would have a major impact on his life, but if he were alive and couldn't speak, think or any other major brain damage it would have a larger impact
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They barked in the casual language of enforcers: You wanna go? Let’s go. Each man dropped his stick from his right hand. They shook their gloves, worn loose for such occasions, to the ice. They pushed up their sleeves. It was just another fight — yet memorable and telling. Photo
If the fights are so common and not stopped immediately when they do occur then why are they banned and why isn't the "code" enforced in the actual rules?
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someone hardly valued for his skill as a player, perhaps rarely used
connects back to the first article where Boogaard was barely used for his hockey skills in his career but for his fighting skills instead
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But there is generally order to the chaos, unwritten rules of engagement, commonly called “the code.”
Even though fights are against the rules, the players still do show enough respect for each other to make the fights that inevitably happen fair.
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Proponents believe the sport is so fast and so prone to contact that it needs players to police the shadowy areas between legal hits and dirty play.
people see it as necessary for people like Boogaard to mediate the games with violence rather than have someone like a referee maintain peace between the two teams during the game.
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The N.H.L., formed in 1917, considered a ban on fighting. It ultimately mandated that fighters be assessed a five-minute penalty. That interpretation of justice, now Rule 46.14, still stands.
This is very different compared to the first part of the article because in the first part the author was more focused on Boogaards life and in the second part (at least this far in) he is more focused on the foundation and rules of the game
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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And it fit.
This statement takes a lot back to the beginning of the article where Boogaard struggled his entire life to get something as simple as a jersey that fits and this helps show the time change and his growth over time. It seems like something so simple to have your clothes fit and we all take it for granted but for Boogaard it was a luxury that he never got.
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It was the best feeling I had the last 2 years.”
There's been a common sad or struggling theme throughout the article when the author adds in these little happy and relieved moments it makes Boogaards struggles not seem like they were all for nothing.
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Boogaard felt an instant kinship with Mike Tobin — an affable man who treated Boogaard less like a son than a little brother
I feel like this was a great point for Boogaard because he finally got those stable relationships that could've helped him get back on track with his life.
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“He was a boy in a man’s body,”
This quote helps describe all the previously stated struggles that Boogaard experienced.
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“It was a very long year for me,” Boogaard wrote. “I struggled with everything it seemed.”
Boogaard even though he finally got his chance in the rink this year, he still had to deal with a lot of things a 17 year old shouldn't have to worry about like where he was going to sleep.
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“All he wants to do is play. All he wanted was to have his fair share, to show people.”
This happens in a lot of major sports where instructors will choose one person over another because they have the "ideal" qualities for that sport, when in truth they aren't ideal they are just similar. So people like Boogaard never get a fair shot.
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Frustrated at being forgotten — or viewed as something less than a hockey player
Boogaard had to work much harder to get his time on the ice compared to the other kids because people only saw him as a fighter, rather than the hockey player he is.
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He knew he wasn’t going to be good enough to make it on skills alone,
Boogaard knew what he had to do to secure his place on that team but being told that your not wanted for your skills in that sport can be so disheartening. Boogaard took the spot knowing he still had a chance to have a slightly altered version of his dream.
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enrolling him in boxing lessons as a teenager to improve his fighting skills.
his father and others supported and fueled his aggression.
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And he was actually picked on by other teams, by other referees, other communities, simply because of his size. Derek would certainly stick up for the team, he would stick up for his teammates, but wasn’t mean at all.”
There's a lot of irony here because you'd think for someone of Boogaards height and size and with his aggression that he'd be considered the "bully". But truthfully he was only trying to protect the people he cared about from the people that hurt him.
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“And because he struggled so much in school, we bent over backwards to give him every opportunity that you could for him to do what he liked to do.”
the parents felt guilty about Boogaards struggles in school and made every opportunity available for him in hockey. I feel though this could have helped boost his self esteem it never taught Boogaard self control. Instead, hockey enabled his aggression.
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“I think the best part of playing hockey for ages 3 until 16 was the little road trips with dad,”
This helps show that his experiences with hockey weren't all bad and aggressive.
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He heard the whispers of parents saying that this oversize boy — too big, too clumsy — had no rightful place on the team.
This is a big factor that led towards his aggression in his professional career. Always being told he had no place on any team made him feel as if he could easily be replaced causing him to rebel and fight back.
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But those who believe Boogaard loved to fight have it wrong. He loved what it brought: a continuation of an unlikely hockey career.
Boogaard fought out of fear. He feared that if he didn't fight there'd be no reason to keep him on the team. He was mainly there for his size and fighting skills but he continued to fight to secure his dream job which shouldn't be necessary in any sport
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he was approached by one of the few players bigger than he was. Boogaard had never seen him before. He did not know his name.“I’m going to kill you,” the player said.
This helps show the hostility and violence in this sport. For someone that Boogaard has never met to threaten to kill him over a simple game, whether it's a major or minor game, shows how far people are going to win.
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www.si.com www.si.com
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Some holes are easier to patch than others.
Reilly talks a lot about filling this hole and he expresses that throughout the article but with several different meanings. Whether it be missing players from the football team, an emotional gap of a lost loved one, or the hole that remains in the ground in place of the World Trait Center.
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Even if you can replace the players who were lost, how do youreplace all the other guys who made the team so damn much fun?
Throughout the article they talk about replacing people in your life and on the football team. The truth is it's fairly easy to get a person to take on the responsibilities of another player but it is impossible to replace a person in your life; all of the experiences shared with them are impossible to replace and Reilly expresses this throughout the article by repeating the word replace.
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