Reba Riley was raised in an Evangelical Pentecostal household where they used Jesus-themed paper napkins. After high school, she went to ministry training but started questioning her faith when her parents got a divorce. Later, when she left the Church, she experienced a total loss of identity or, as she likes to call it, post-traumatic church syndrome. Then she started to feel really sick, and doctors were not able to…
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Tennessee Williams
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Did you know that Tennessee Williams was hypochondriac?
He was obsessed with sickness and death, and constantly worried he was going insane. This was the result of being traumatized by his sister’s lobotomy after her mental breakdown. She was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tennessee Williams also suffered from depression and bouts of anxiety his whole life, and became dependent on drugs and alcohol. He died in 1983 at the age of 71 as he chocked on the plastic cap of…