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Holman, Virginia. Rescuing Patty Hearst : memories from a decade gone mad. Simon & Schuster, 2003.

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During Spring, Virginia had walked into her mother frantic and panicking. When she asked her mother, her mother said they were going on a treasure hunt. On the hunt, they had one motive follow the color red. Virginia and her little sister, Emma, had gotten bored in the car ride, until they saw red balloons at Chesapeake Point. After a little while, their mother abruptly said they were leaving the place, which was also the first time Gingie (Virginia) was skeptical of her mother. In the car back home, their mom had stopped the car and started crying, because she was now lost. Gingie then handed her mom a lollipop and told he how to get home even though, she wasn't fully sure how to get home herself. Once they got home Gingie told her father what they had done, "My father was waiting on the stoop..."We were lost on our treasure hunt, but I found out way home! All by myself" (11). This had made their father very confused and to make it even more confusing, their mother started crying. Later, " I remember her being in bed and my father telling me that she was sick. I said that she was sad and confused and Dad said those things could sometimes make a person sick" (12).

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A few days later, Gingie had gotten back from school just for her mom to tell her that they were going to their cottage in Kechotan for a few days. Gingie asked her mother if she knew how to get their because of her tendency to forget things and because she was a fairly new driver. Her mother had just dismissed her and they got Emma and they left home. During the car ride, everything seemed simple even though, her mom had started saying goodbye to all the places they once called home. "Good-bye, poo. Good-bye, Be-Lo. Good-bye, Tammie Sugarman's house." She was ecstatic" (17).

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Gingie, Emma and their mom arrive at the little cottage their mom grew up in. The mother, who is hearing voices in her mind, told Gingie to help her sanitize the premises with ammonia. When Gingie starts to question her mother, her mom says, "That's for me to know, missy. You do as you're told. You take orders or they'll court-martial you and put you in jail. And I am your superior" (23). Even though, Gingie is caught off guard with her mother's strange behavior, she is obedient and does as she's told. Soon after, Gingie's cousin, Darby, comes over and asks if she is free to play. Just as their about to go outside and play, Gingie's mom comes over and drags her back to scold her, "You cannot talk about the secret war. We are on a mission. You have been called to help. This is very important. Your government has asked you to help. You will do what I say" (25).

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Gingie quickly decides that she's had enough and tries to leave during night. She didn't get far when her mom grabs her and tells her, "I love you, you know that, I would never do this if I didn't love you. You must help. This is important. You will understand" (25). After a while of kicking and screaming, Gingie gets knocked out cold in her mothers arm. The next day of living at the cottage Emma, Gingie, and their mom walk to Aunt Lisa's house. Mom calls to inform their father that they are at the cottage with no intention of leaving. Gingie also notes that she doesn't tell their Dad about the secret mission. After hanging up the call, Mom pays Aunt Lisa as a token of her appreciation. Aunt Lisa declines her offer saying that they are family, but their mom says she is a stranger she doesn't care about.

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After buying last season jackets and shoes for the war kids, Gingie and her mom start packing them up into green plastic bags. Her mom picked up a pair of maroon shoes that unfortunately, Gingie didn't like. This led to a big argument between the two and eventually led to Gingie walking out. "I keep walking toward Chuck and Lisa's house and don't turn around" (43). After returning home, she finds her mom to be peaceful until, she finds her sewing her jacket pockets sewn shut because she slouches too much. This led to another argument. Then, her mom starts to break wires in the TV and pulls out a disc, calling it a video camera.

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It was 4 in the morning when Gingie's mom decided to wake her up. The war children were coming. At this point, Gingie is tired of her lunatic mother and tells her straight up, "Something isn't right. The war children aren't coming now, so why is she acting as if they are? But what I say to Mom is, "They're not coming" (52). After a silent moment, her mom agreed and told her that it was just a test run tonight, in case the children do come. The three get in the car, and her mom put a blindfold over Gingie's eyes so all of her senses are alert. In order to achieve her night maneuvers, Gingie tracks all the turns her mom makes to arrive at their destination. When they got out of the car, her mom held her by the shoulder to lead her somewhere. Gingie, who became lost in thought half way through, realized her mom had left her. In order to pass the test, Gingie has to stay calm. So she took off her blindfold and retraced her footsteps in the dark, till she made it back to the cottage. Gingie's mom had congratulated her when she made it back home and they both went to bed, snuggled against each other.

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Gingie was forced into forgetting her whole life in Virginia Beach. Her father, who only came down on the weekends realized that when her mom said they were staying here, she meant permanently. What this meant for Gingie, was that she was going to have to start 4th grade in Kechotan. Gingie hates school except for one person, Carol Carpenter. Gingie wanted to be just like Carol because of her carefree approach, "This is the sort of things that makes me love Carol and want to be just like her. She isn't ever ashamed of who she is and she isn't ashamed of who you are" (81). Since of the secret war Gingie had going on behind closed doors, she became an observer. She observed all that Carol did, this led to her being even more smitten by the kind and lovely, Carol.

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While reading John Steinbeck' s The Pearl, her mother came into the room. Her mom focused in on the book, when her whole demeanor changed. She went from normal to manic. Gingie noticed it, but it was too late because her mom grabbed the book and started trying to destroy it. When her mom went manic, Gingie felt really hopeless and reasoning with her was almost impossible, "You know it's just a library book. Why don't I just return it?" "Why don't I just kill this sick piece of trash" (92). Internally, Gingie was crying, yelling, forcing her mother to stop but in reality, she was just standing there as her mother ruined a book that told her something, causing her to act like that. Because of her mother, Gingie got her library access revoked. Leading to her stealing books. Unfortunately, Gingie was afraid of her mother so she hid the books in a very humid area, making them mold. So she stole the books but never returned them.

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For six months, Gingie's father had been coming to Kechotan and going back to Virginia Beach. When he came to the cottage, he brought groceries and him and Gingie took their waste to the landfill. When they are in the car, Gingie asks when they are going to move back to Virginia Beach, but her dad responds saying, "He found a job in Newport News and will start in a few weeks. The town house in Virginia Beach is for sale. He tells me Mom isn't going to move back and that all this traveling between two houses is just no good for anyone" (109). This sparked interest in Gingie because she thought, since they were all together that everything would get better.

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As time went by, Gingie had memorized the First Aid Manual. This led to her mom allowing her to bring other books into the house again. In the books she reads, she tries to find something that connects her to the war children but to no avail she starts to give up. But her mom encourages her to set camp and gain the war children's trust. It was a silent hot day, when the girl arrives. Gingie tries not to panic instead, she gives the skinny, pale girl her coke and tries to comfort the girl, "We've been waiting for you. My mother and I have clothes and supplies. I'll bring you some shoes and some Bactine. Wait here, OK" (125). When her mom asks her how she's doing, she doesn't tell her about her ghost girl. But when she returns to her little camp site, the girl is gone.

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Uncle Chuck, who resented them living there had told them to stop using his pier. This led to Gingie's father building their own pier. At first, Chuck just stands there and doesn't help her dad until he decides to take his shirt off and get in the muck to help Gingie's dad. Soon after, both families are outside relaxing together, while the men build the pier. Soon after, the two families have dinner together.

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As her New Years resolution, Gingie decides on being a Baptist. Carol Carpenter starts to invite Gingie to go to Sunday school with her. Gingie's father asks her multiple times if this is what she wants and without fail, every time Gingie says yes. At first she does find it boring but since she is away from her mom, she comes to terms with going to Sunday School.

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After around 2 weeks of arguing, Gingie's mom and dad decide to get a divorce. He leaves then and Gingie wants to come with but because the mother usually gets the children, her dad was unable to take her with him. After that fiasco, Gingie decides to skip school and go to her neighbor, Miss Ruth's house. There she helps Miss Ruth with cleaning her house till she has to go back home.

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A month before school lets out, Gingie is outside near the pier with her mom and sister. Then, Sheila and Darby come out with their mom. Their mom asks Gingie's if she wants a cup of wine. Gingie holds her breath thinking that her mom is going to cause trouble again but to her surprise, she just says yes. So while the mothers are outside, the girls are reading Aunt Lisa's magazines. In the magazine, Gingie reads about Patty Hearst being locked in a closet for a month. To fulfill her curiosity, she tries to lock herself in her cousins closet, but quickly realizes that it is very boring and gets out.

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After being in the cottage for three years, the family of four finally move back to Virginia in 1978. At first Gingie's mother refused to move back but her father said that, he was going to leave and work at the bank and also take his two girls with him, and she could come if she wants to. He had called her bluff, so she went but something in her completely changed. She had gone flat as if someone had snatched her soul, and she started talking back to the voices in broad daylight.

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After many years of putting her mother out as the "bad guy" and her father in the wrong for not stopping her mom. Gingie finally realized that her mother was sick. Then her father started consulting doctors to help her. That turned out to be useless because no lawyer or doctor was gonna help her unless she acted on a suicidal or homicidal impulse. It was at this moment that her father had to choose between helping his wife that cannot be fixed or abandoning her because he couldn't possibly do anything. He decided to stay for many years which put them at risk multiple times.

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After Gingie's schizophrenic mother took a toll on her, she had a found a guy that made her really happy. She was 15 when she met Hitch. Hitch had all A's ran cross-country. Unfortunately, Hitch didn't understand her problems at home and he also didn't understand why she cried so much. So as a way to cover it up, Gingie made up stories about ex-boyfriends she never had that left her heartbroken. After years of dating when she finally came clean, he was mad but eventually forgave her. This led to Gingie wondering if she could forgive her mother for being sick.

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Even after being a C and D student, Gingie finds out that she enjoys writing so she writes a paper on Virginia Woolf, another schizophrenic patient. When Gingie tells her mother about Woolf, she sees how fascinated she is and Gingie realizes that her mom is just a human and has the urge to protect her from anything bad. Gingie's fascination with writing got her into college. The night before she leaves, Gingie realizes that this is the first time she is going to be living without her mother and she gets sick. When Gingie arrives at college she realizes that her mother and her illness isn't something she should be embarrassed about instead, she embraces it.

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After her whole life being a horrible sob story, she moves out to North Carolina with her boyfriend, Hitch. She thought this would fix her trauma but it didn't because every night, she would violently cry in Hitch's arms. Gingie finally decides it's time to see a therapist and make peace with her inner child. Even though Gingie has no faith in herself, her therapist pushes her to believe in herself to become better. This made Gingie make a pact with herself, to never marry or have kids because that's what she thinks made her mother go mad. Time skip, and Hitch and her get married to which her mother wasn't invited because she was way to sick to come. Years later, she also had a kid, so she made a change to her plan. Which was to never get sick.

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Gingie decides to write a book about her life. So in order to write it, she researched a lot of information by interviewing her dad. While they are on the phone, she starts crying talking about how she wants it to end, so her dad tells her to write the book and then forget about it. A while later, Gingie, her husband, and son drive to the cottage in Kechotan. As she's there, she reminisces in the land's beauty. While her husband and son go explore a cove, she goes inside the house and sees so much of her family still there, mentally. Soon after, they decide to go back home and that is when she declares that they will never come back here. Three weeks later Gingie visits her mom, she asks her basic question about her health, but her mom starts off on a delusional riff saying that the doctor has a picture of Gingie as a baby. Instead of arguing or walking around eggshells with her mom, she tells her straight up that her doctor doesn't have a picture of Gingie as a baby. This brings a lot of love and relief to Gingie as she is slowly overcoming years of built up trauma.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Newspaper heiress Patricia "Patty" Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, later joining her captors in a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery that earned her a prison sentence.

The abduction and subsequent trial of Hearst, then a 19-year-old college student and the granddaughter of wealthy newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was one of the most sensational and captivating cases of the 1970s.

Hearst will turn 70 on Feb. 20. She is now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw after she married a police officer who guarded her when she was out on bail, the late Bernard Shaw. She has been in the news in recent years for her dogs, mostly French bulldogs, that have in the Westminster Kennel Club dog show.

Hearst's allegiance to the Symbionese Liberation Army raised questions about Stockholm syndrome, a common term deployed to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors.

Stockholm syndrome got its name from an August 1973 failed bank robbery in Sweden's capital. Rather than a diagnosis of a disorder, experts describe it as a psychological coping mechanism used by some hostages to endure being held captive and abused.

Hearst, who went by the name "Tania" in the group, denounced her family and posed for a photograph carrying a weapon in front of their flag. The self-styled radicals viewed aspects of U.S. society as racist and oppressive, and they were accused of killing a California school superintendent.

As a member of a wealthy and powerful family, Hearst was kidnapped to bring attention to the Symbionese Liberation Army, according to the FBI. The group demanded food and money donations for the poor in exchange for Hearst's release, though she remained a captive even after her family met the ransom through a $2 million food distribution program.

Hearst took part in the group's robbery of a San Francisco bank on April 15, 1974. Surveillance cameras captured her wielding an assault rifle during the crime.

She wasn't arrested until the FBI caught up with her on Sept. 18, 1975, in San Francisco, 19 months after her abduction.

Her trial was one of the most sensational of that decade. The prosecutor played a jail cell recording of Hearst talking with a friend in which she was confident, cursing and fully aware of her role with the Symbionese Liberation Army.

While Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison, President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence in 1979 after she served 22 months behind bars. She later was pardoned by President Bill Clinton.

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Newspaper heiress Patricia "Patty" Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a little-known armed revolutionary group.

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Overview

Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.

People with schizophrenia require lifelong treatment. Early treatment may help get symptoms under control before serious complications develop and may help improve the long-term outlook.

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Symptoms

Schizophrenia involves a range of problems with thinking (cognition), behavior and emotions. Signs and symptoms may vary, but usually involve delusions, hallucinations or disorganized speech, and reflect an impaired ability to function. Symptoms may include:

Delusions. These are false beliefs that are not based in reality. For example, you think that you're being harmed or harassed; certain gestures or comments are directed at you; you have exceptional ability or fame; another person is in love with you; or a major catastrophe is about to occur. Delusions occur in most people with schizophrenia.

Hallucinations. These usually involve seeing or hearing things that don't exist. Yet for the person with schizophrenia, they have the full force and impact of a normal experience. Hallucinations can be in any of the senses, but hearing voices is the most common hallucination.

Disorganized thinking (speech). Disorganized thinking is inferred from disorganized speech. Effective communication can be impaired, and answers to questions may be partially or completely unrelated. Rarely, speech may include putting together meaningless words that can't be understood, sometimes known as word salad.

Extremely disorganized or abnormal motor behavior. This may show in a number of ways, from childlike silliness to unpredictable agitation. Behavior isn't focused on a goal, so it's hard to do tasks. Behavior can include resistance to instructions, inappropriate or bizarre posture, a complete lack of response, or useless and excessive movement.

Negative symptoms. This refers to reduced or lack of ability to function normally. For example, the person may neglect personal hygiene or appear to lack emotion (doesn't make eye contact, doesn't change facial expressions or speaks in a monotone). Also, the person may lose interest in everyday activities, socially withdraw or lack the ability to experience pleasure.

Symptoms can vary in type and severity over time, with periods of worsening and remission of symptoms. Some symptoms may always be present.

In men, schizophrenia symptoms typically start in the early to mid-20s. In women, symptoms typically begin in the late 20s. It's uncommon for children to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and rare for those older than age 45.

Symptoms in teenagers

Schizophrenia symptoms in teenagers are similar to those in adults, but the condition may be more difficult to recognize. This may be in part because some of the early symptoms of schizophrenia in teenagers are common for typical development during teen years, such as:

Withdrawal from friends and family

A drop in performance at school

Trouble sleeping

Irritability or depressed mood

Lack of motivation

Also, recreational substance use, such as marijuana, methamphetamines or LSD, can sometimes cause similar signs and symptoms.

Compared with schizophrenia symptoms in adults, teens may be:

Less likely to have delusions

More likely to have visual hallucinations

When to see a doctor

People with schizophrenia often lack awareness that their difficulties stem from a mental disorder that requires medical attention. So it often falls to family or friends to get them help.

Helping someone who may have schizophrenia

If you think someone you know may have symptoms of schizophrenia, talk to him or her about your concerns. Although you can't force someone to seek professional help, you can offer encouragement and support and help your loved one find a qualified doctor or mental health professional.

If your loved one poses a danger to self or others or can't provide his or her own food, clothing, or shelter, you may need to call 911 or other emergency responders for help so that your loved one can be evaluated by a mental health professional.

In some cases, emergency hospitalization may be needed. Laws on involuntary commitment for mental health treatment vary by state. You can contact community mental health agencies or police departments in your area for details.

Suicidal thoughts and behavior

Suicidal thoughts and behavior are common among people with schizophrenia. If you have a loved one who is in danger of attempting suicide or has made a suicide attempt, make sure someone stays with that person. Call 911 or your local emergency number immediately. Or, if you think you can do so safely, take the person to the nearest hospital emergency room.

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Causes

It's not known what causes schizophrenia, but researchers believe that a combination of genetics, brain chemistry and environment contributes to development of the disorder.

Problems with certain naturally occurring brain chemicals, including neurotransmitters called dopamine and glutamate, may contribute to schizophrenia. Neuroimaging studies show differences in the brain structure and central nervous system of people with schizophrenia. While researchers aren't certain about the significance of these changes, they indicate that schizophrenia is a brain disease.

Risk factors

Although the precise cause of schizophrenia isn't known, certain factors seem to increase the risk of developing or triggering schizophrenia, including:

Having a family history of schizophrenia

Some pregnancy and birth complications, such as malnutrition or exposure to toxins or viruses that may impact brain development

Taking mind-altering (psychoactive or psychotropic) drugs during teen years and young adulthood

Complications

Left untreated, schizophrenia can result in severe problems that affect every area of life. Complications that schizophrenia may cause or be associated with include:

Suicide, suicide attempts and thoughts of suicide

Anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Depression

Abuse of alcohol or other drugs, including nicotine

Inability to work or attend school

Financial problems and homelessness

Social isolation

Health and medical problems

Being victimized

Aggressive behavior, although it's uncommon

Prevention

There's no sure way to prevent schizophrenia, but sticking with the treatment plan can help prevent relapses or worsening of symptoms. In addition, researchers hope that learning more about risk factors for schizophrenia may lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.

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Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling. People with schizophrenia require lifelong treatment.

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