Select-It… um… Monday: Amanda Fravel

Missy C. asked me to profile her sister, Amanda Lee Fravel, for Select It Sunday. I was going to do it on Sunday (naturally) but I just plumb forgot. I’m so sorry, Missy. I hope you forgive me. Anyway, I decided to do it today, because I’ve got another Select It Sunday lined up, and if I waited till next Sunday to profile Amanda, that would mean pushing my other case back yet another week. I suppose it’s the exposure, not the day, that matters.

Anyway. Amanda Fravel moved to Las Vegas after graduating high school and got a job at Taco Bell. She disappeared from there at the age of 20; she was last seen on June 13, 1986, when she left her apartment to visit her boyfriend and also pick up her paycheck. She never arrived at either place, and she left her pets without food at her apartment.

She was a regular hitchhiker and my guess is something terrible happened to her.

Make-a-List Monday: Schizoaffective disorder

Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness with characteristics of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: you get hallucinations and/or delusions, AND major mood swings. It’s the worst of both worlds, I suppose. I asked my psychiatrist what the difference was between a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder and a diagnosis of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and he indicated that the latter might have more, or more extreme, symptoms than the former.

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