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身体疾病可博取同情，喜剧演员鲁比·怀克丝说到，除了那些大脑生病的。为什么会那样？活力四射幽默感十足的怀克丝，十年前被诊断出临床忧郁症，她敦促我们杜绝精神疾病的污名。
vi. 爬行，卑躬屈膝，自由式游泳
n. 爬行
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- One in four people suffer from some sort of mental illness,
- 每四个人中就有一人患有某种精神疾病
- so if it was one, two, three, four, it's you, sir.
- 如果说是一二三四，就是你了先生
- You. Yeah.
- 对，是你。
- With the weird teeth. And you next to him.
- 牙齿有点怪的那位，还有旁边那位
- You know who you are.
- 你自己可清楚了
- Actually, that whole row isn't right.
- 事实上那一整排都不大正常。
- That's not good. Hi. Yeah. Real bad. Don't even look at me.
- 这不太好，是的，真的很糟糕，拜托别看着我。
- I am one of the one in four. Thank you.
- 我就是四个人中的那一人，谢谢
- I think I inherit it from my mother, who, used to crawl around the house on all fours.
- 我想我这病是从我妈妈那里遗传过来的，她常四肢着地在房子里四处爬动
- She had two sponges in her hand, and then she had two tied to her knees.
- 她手里拿着两个海绵，还有两个绑在膝盖那里，
- My mother was completely absorbent.
- 我妈妈具有完全的吸水性
- And she would crawl around behind me going,
- 她会跟在我身后爬来爬去喊着
- "Who brings footprints into a building?!"
- “谁会把脚印带到屋子里!”
- So that was kind of a clue that things weren't right.
- 这算是个线索，有点不太对劲
- So before I start, I would like to thank the makers of Lamotrigine, Sertraline, and Reboxetine,
- 在我开始之前，我想感谢拉莫三嗪，舍曲林，帕罗西汀的制药商
- because without those few simple chemicals, I would not be vertical today.
- 因为如果没有这几种常用药物，我今天就不会站在这里
- So how did it start?
- 我的病是怎么开始的呢
- My mental illness -- well, I'm not even going to talk about my mental illness.
- 我的精神疾病，我都根本不想谈论它
- What am I going to talk about? Okay.
- 那我谈些什么好呢，好吧
- I always dreamt that, when I had my final breakdown,
- 我以前常常会想自己最终会在什么时候发病
- it would be because I had a deep Kafkaesque existentialist revelation,
- 可能因为我有深深的卡夫卡式存在主义的启示
- or that maybe Cate Blanchett would play me and she would win an Oscar for it.
- 或可能是凯特·布兰切特扮演了我的角色并赢了奥斯卡
- But that's not what happened. I had my breakdown during my daughter's sports day.
- 但这些都没发生，我发病的时候正是我女儿的运动会日
- There were all the parents sitting in a parking lot
- 所有家长都坐在停车场
- eating food out of the back of their car -- only the English --
- 在车背上吃着食物，只是英国人
- eating their sausages. They loved their sausages.
- 吃着他们的香肠，他们可喜欢他们的香肠了
- Lord and Lady Rigor Mortis were nibbling on the tarmac,
- 大家都在讲些闲话和八卦
- and then the gun went off and all the girlies started running,
- 突然枪声响了，所有的女孩都跑了起来
- and all the mummies went, "Run! Run Chlamydia! Run!"
- 所有的妈妈都喊着 “快跑！快跑Chlamydia！快跑！”
- "Run like the wind, Veruca! Run!"
- “像风一样跑，Veruca! 快跑！”
- And all the girlies, girlies running, running, running,
- 所有的女孩都在跑啊跑啊跑啊
- everybody except for my daughter, who was just standing at the starting line, just waving,
- 所有人除了我的女儿，她就站着在起跑线的地方，光顾着挥手
- because she didn't know she was supposed to run.
- 因为她不知道她应该跑起来
- So I took to my bed for about a month, and when I woke up I found I was institutionalized
- 我因此卧床一个月，当我醒来的时候我发现自己住院了，
- and when I saw the other inmates,
- 看到其他病人的时候
- I realized that I had found my people, my tribe.
- 我意识到我找到自己的同类了，我的群落
- Because they became my only friends, they became my friends,
- 因为他们成了我唯一的朋友，他们成了我的朋友
- because very few people that I knew -- Well, I wasn't sent a lot of cards or flowers.
- 因为我本来就认识不多人，而我也没有收到很多问候卡或鲜花，
- I mean, if I had had a broken leg or I was with child I would have been inundated,
- 我的意思是，如果我是摔断了腿或者我有了孩子我也许就被大家的关心所掩埋了
- but all I got was a couple phone calls telling me to perk up.
- 但我只接到了几通电话叫我振作
- Perk up.
- 振作
- Because I didn't think of that.
- 因为我没想过要振作呢
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