Category: William Styron

  • Stigma and Sophie’s Choice Part 2 – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 7

    Continuing from yesterday, I do think mental illness has a caste system.  The disorders that are seen as less scary or less threatening to anyone but the person suffering are at the top.  The farther down the scale you go, the more misunderstood the illnesses become.  They culminate at the bottom of the list with…

  • Stigma and Sophie’s Choice – NABPM / NaBloPoMo Day 6

    I watched Sophie’s Choice the other day.  It’s an amazing movie of a tragic and painful story and while I admire the film it’s one of those I have to steel myself up to watch because the story and subject matter, World War II and the Nazi concentration camps.  But the other side of the…