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From the Ted Talk by Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside
Unscramble the Blue Letters
My best friend Steve, sensing that something was trrelbiy wrong, flew out to New Haven to be with me. Now I'm going to quote from some of my writings: "I opened the door to my siduto apartment. Steve would later tell me that, for all the times he had seen me psychotic, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that day. For a week or more, I had brelay eaten. I was gunat. I walked as though my legs were wooden. My face looked and felt like a mask. I had closed all the cuainrts in the aremptant, so in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lwyaer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mnatel illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch, where I sat in silence for several memotns. 'Thank you for coming, Steve. Crumbling world, word, voice. Tell the clocks to stop. Time is. Time has come.' 'White is leaving,' Steve said semobrly. 'I'm being pushed into a grave. The situation is grave,' I moan. 'Gravity is pulling me down. I'm sceard. Tell them to get away.'"
Open Cloze
My best friend Steve, sensing that something was ________ wrong, flew out to New Haven to be with me. Now I'm going to quote from some of my writings: "I opened the door to my ______ apartment. Steve would later tell me that, for all the times he had seen me psychotic, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that day. For a week or more, I had ______ eaten. I was _____. I walked as though my legs were wooden. My face looked and felt like a mask. I had closed all the ________ in the _________, so in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a ______ and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe ______ illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch, where I sat in silence for several _______. 'Thank you for coming, Steve. Crumbling world, word, voice. Tell the clocks to stop. Time is. Time has come.' 'White is leaving,' Steve said ________. 'I'm being pushed into a grave. The situation is grave,' I moan. 'Gravity is pulling me down. I'm ______. Tell them to get away.'"
Solution
- scared
- lawyer
- gaunt
- somberly
- barely
- curtains
- moments
- apartment
- mental
- terribly
- studio
Original Text
My best friend Steve, sensing that something was terribly wrong, flew out to New Haven to be with me. Now I'm going to quote from some of my writings: "I opened the door to my studio apartment. Steve would later tell me that, for all the times he had seen me psychotic, nothing could have prepared him for what he saw that day. For a week or more, I had barely eaten. I was gaunt. I walked as though my legs were wooden. My face looked and felt like a mask. I had closed all the curtains in the apartment, so in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total darkness. The air was fetid, the room a shambles. Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen. 'Hi,' I said, and then I returned to the couch, where I sat in silence for several moments. 'Thank you for coming, Steve. Crumbling world, word, voice. Tell the clocks to stop. Time is. Time has come.' 'White is leaving,' Steve said somberly. 'I'm being pushed into a grave. The situation is grave,' I moan. 'Gravity is pulling me down. I'm scared. Tell them to get away.'"
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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mental illness |
7 |
law school |
6 |
yale law |
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severe mental |
3 |
psychiatric hospital |
2 |
loose associations |
2 |
florida sunshine |
2 |
metal bed |
2 |
legs tied |
2 |
feel safe |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
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frequency |
yale law school |
3 |
Important Words
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