Re: NYC Teacher Who Vanished Before Ferry REscue Says She Lost Her Memory


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> > On Oct 5, 7:27 pm, "Chocolic" <chatter...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hannah Upp breaks her silence via Facebook

> >> BY JOHN LAUINGER

> >> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

> >> Saturday, October 4th 2008, 10:49 PM
> >> Hannah Upp, the Manhattan teacher whose disappearance sparked a > >> 19-day
> >> search, has broken her silence to claim she had a rare amnesialike
> >> disorder.

> >> In a short message on her Facebook page, Upp said she was suffering
> >> from
> >> dissociative fugue when she was found nearly drowned in the water > >> off
> >> Staten
> >> Island last month.

> >> The condition is triggered by stress or trauma and causes people to
> >> suddenly
> >> flee their homes - and forget their past lives.

> >> RELATED: MISSING PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER SAVED AFTER JUMPING OFF S.I.
> >> PIER

> >> "As is typical of a case of dissociative fugue, I was not aware of > >> my
> >> own
> >> identity and I emerged from the episode with essentially no memory > >> of
> >> what
> >> happened during the time I was missing," Upp wrote to her > >> supporters.

> >> Upp, 23, a Spanish teacher from Oregon, disappeared from her > >> Hamilton
> >> Heights apartment Aug. 29 just before she was to start her second > >> year
> >> as
> >> a
> >> NYC Teaching Fellow at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem.

> >> She was found floating unconscious in the water off Staten Island on
> >> Sept.
> >> 16 in what police labeled an apparent suicide attempt.
> >> In between, Upp was seen several times around the city and was > >> spotted
> >> twice
> >> in four days checking her e-mail at an Apple store.

> >> Dr. Ankur Saraiya, a psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor > >> at
> >> Columbia University, said that sort of behavior isn't typical of
> >> dissociative fugue.

> >>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/10/04/2008-10-04_hannah_upp_brea...
> >> -----------------
> >> The comments at the end of the article are funny.

> >> This recent one cracked me up:
> >> tillzen Oct 5, 2008 12:31:54 PM Report Offensive Post
> >> I can relate completely! EVERY pint of ice cream I completely > >> consumed
> >> was
> >> an episode of dissociative fugue disorder. First you smell burnt
> >> almonds,
> >> and the next thing you know, you are waking up in Staten Island with > >> a
> >> sticky mouth, and potato chip crumbs are wedged EVERYWHERE! I MUST
> >> remember
> >> to use Facebook more effectively! It was built for explaining away
> >> suicide
> >> attempts, breaking blind dates, and allowing college stalkers to
> >> reconnect.

> >> ------------------------------------
> >> Chocolic

> > Wonderful!

> > I can now blame my missteps on being "all fugued up" ;)

> > Kris

> > ---------------------------------
> > Me too. But I've been saying it wrong.

> > Chocolic

> Dang that Hanna Upp person for not being somebody's who had a psychotic
> break. I was counting on her having to be hospitalised and medicated.
> Definitely an eff word is called for here, on that much I agree.

> jc- Hide quoted text -

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If you know you've had a disassociative fugue, doesn't that mean you
didn't have one? How are you disassociated when you're checking
your emails? Do you check someone else's?

Kris
====
I'm awfully tired this morning, don't feel like going to work. I'm thinking
I might have a disassociative episode coming on. When I wake up this
afternoon I bet I won't remember a thing.



I get those all the time. I wake up and go "Fugue it," then i go back
to bed.

Works for me.

Mick
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If Hannah's disassociative disorder was maternally inherited, does that mean her momma was a motherfuguer?

I know I'm going straight to hell.

jc<---often prefers the low road


haha, good one

Chocolic



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