Cat Carrier Keys to movement: fingers looping through handle slight bend to elbow hold at center, which is about a foot from your body Some weight to it, leaning towards the side the cat carrier is on Setting down: let it hit (bounce), then unhook your hand Door Push Bar Door keys to movement where in the body the push bar lives Make contact, show force of starting push in shoulders Reach, grab, pull to leave ` If holding, let the hand that pulled go around, or stop the door with other hand Apartment doors keys to movement jiggle the keys into the hole Hold onto to doorknob as you lock/unlock, so the audience can know where the keyhole is Cupboard Wine bottle: make sure to grab neck, twist top, hold on to base (different size than cup) and give it weight as you pour grab each glass and pour the wine in front of you Files Pull drawer, hold it Leaf through files with fingers Fingers go behind the file you're pulling out, Pinch, lay diagonally on your arm to look through it Phone Wrist isn't bent Moves in relation to your head Can hold it with your shoulder while you're doing hand stuff Remote Bat at the remote, not through the remote Cat Food Key movements Bowls are up high, bag is down low Squat to get food, bring hand out, move hand up and over to pour food into bowl Car Beep keys as walk towards car Crunch down to get into car Put on seatbelt, right hand Brace, then impact
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PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. People frequently think of it as a "soldier" thing, but PTSD can affect everyone from car crash victims to survivors of childhood abuse.
Doctors aren't sure why some people get PTSD. As with most mental health problems, PTSD is probably caused by a complex mix of:
PTSD symptoms can vary in intensity over time. You may have more PTSD symptoms when you're stressed in general, or when you come across reminders of what you went through. For example, you may hear a car backfire and relive combat experiences. What are toxoplasmotic mind-entry tactics, you ask? Well, they derive from toxoplasmosis, or "the crazy cat lady disease". It's called that because one of the ways to become infected with toxoplasmosis is to be exposed to infected cat feces.
What it does: When a person becomes infected with T. gondii, the parasite forms cysts that can affect almost any part of the body — often your brain and muscle tissue of different organs, including the heart. If you're generally healthy, your immune system keeps the parasites in check. They remain in your body in an inactive state, providing you with lifelong immunity so that you can't become infected with the parasite again. But if your immune system is weakened by disease or certain medications, the infection can be reactivated, leading to serious complications. X What that manifests as: Most healthy people who are infected with toxoplasmosis have no signs or symptoms and aren't aware that they're infected. Some people, however, develop signs and symptoms similar to those of the flu, including:
What does this mean for All Creatures? Well, basically the cats are using their connection with the humans who clean their litterboxes via the toxoplasmosis lying dormant in all three to enter their minds. This is not a real thing that can happen. But the audience doesn't need to know that. Text (from Jabberwocky in Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass):
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought-- So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. "And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. |
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