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George R.R. Martin signs books during a visit to campus in 2013.
MARTIN CONTINUED
“Mr. Martin had visited campus for
AggieCon and other events and was ap
proached by librarians here about possibly
depositing his collections here to be a part
of this science fiction collection and that
sort of planted a seed,” O’Sullivan said. “It
was several years later before he actually
did begin depositing his collections here,
but that’s a sense of the history of it. It
has been an active, ongoing and fruitful
relationship.”
O’Sullivan said the hope is this will not
just be a celebration in the libraries but in
the Texas A&M community.
“The ceremony will be a celebration of
where we’ve come from but also to look
forward to our vision of where we want
to go as an organization,” O’Sullivan said.
Patrick Zinn, University Libraries mar
keting manager, said whenever the librar
ies reach a milestone like this one, it likes
to celebrate.
No tickets are required. Seating will be
first come, first serve. Doors will open at
10:30 a.m.
HEALTH CONTINUED
an eighth-grade health chapter and an
introductory course to psychology,
if at all.
Increasingly, voices and cam
paigns spin a hypersexualized media
saturated with photoshopped images
with slogans like “love your body”
and “body peace” — both empower
ing messages. But too often are these
slogans highly gendered, excluding
males, ages, people of color and those
of the LGBT community.
Eating disorders are rarely superfi
cial illnesses and they are not a “white
woman’s” illness. It is more than just
about loving your body. When you
reduce a complex problem down to
a simple solution, you isolate those
people who feel stuck.
With the exception of the cases
that go unreported, eating disorders
will clinically afflict approximately 30
million people in the United States at
some point in their lives, according
to the National Eating Disorders As
sociation. This organization sets aside
one week in the month of February
to bring attention to an epidemic that
is likely independent of gender, race,
socioeconomic status or background
and age.
When I was sick, I cringed when
someone reached out to hug me. I
didn’t want people to know about
my condition when their arms
encircled me. But, like other mental
illnesses or addictions, there is a
heaping shame that accompanies any
attempted discussion.
During the day, I was exhausted.
It was like I had vacated my barely
functioning body.
At times, Ijd wake up in the
middle of the night, fearful. My heart
rate was a slow “thump, thump,” and
when I eventually went to the doctor
I was hurried off to an emergency
room. I laid in one of those uncom
fortable rollaway beds, overwhelmed
and wondering how I became so
involved with my disorder.
Eating disorders are frequently not
acknowledged outside clinical labels.
The most commonly discussed are
anorexia nervosa and bulimia ner
vosa. Windham referenced the term
“disordered eating” — behaviors that
may not necessarily warrant a clinical
label, but something I, and others,
"When you reduce
a complex problem
down to a simple
solution, you isolate
those people who
feel stuck."
would consider to be no less serious.
Binge-eating disorder is another
illness that has only recently garnered
a climcal label, said Meghan Wind
ham, a registered and licensed dieti
cian at Beutel Health Center, who
works with eating disorder cases. For
anyone else in between, who can’t
put a name to what they are going
through, I imagine they become lost
in the shuffle.
This makes asking for help com
promising, especially when the strug
gling person fails to see themselves as
“sick enough,” or does not somehow
meet the archetype of an “eating
disordered person.”
Eating disorders are odd in that
they rope in both a person’s mental
and physical state.
I struggled with anxiety and
depression, two things that sometimes
still creep in and out of my life. I
wasn’t alone — countless articles and
personal accounts document how
these two illness often go hand in
hand.
It’s difficult to say which came
first -— the depression or the eat
ing disorder. And therein lies more ■
misinformation that people receive
about eating disorders — that there
is a linear path for how these illnesses
function.
Months went by before family and
people I knew could lay a finger on
what they thought I was struggling
with, and most of them didn’t under
stand. How could they understand?
Not even I did.
My experience, as I came to dis
cover later on in numerous counsel
ing sessions, manifested from a long
list of contributing factors, some
of which, five years later, I am still
working to sort through.
Whatever the type, spectrum of
severity, et cetera, it is imperative that
all disordered eating be recognized
as legitimate to the individual. The
NEDA and numerous other resources
rank eating disorders highest when
it comes to mental illness mortality
rates.
People sometimes approach me
and ask if I’m “okay now.” Physical
ly, yes I am. And sometimes stabiliz
ing your physical health is the first
priority. Taking care of my mental
health, though, is a process that
knows no end.
Someone close to me once said,
“Promise me that if this depression
monster chases you around for the
rest of your life, that you will be able
to cultivate a life where you can find
ways to heal.”
It’s worth seeking.
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HISTORY
Texas celebrates 179th birthday
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
to speak Sunday
By Kylee Reid
Happy birthday, Texas.
T exans, including Lt.
Gov. Dan Patrick, will
gather this weekend at the
Washington on the Bra
zos State Historic site to
celebrate the state’s 179th
birthday.
“Washington on the
Brazos is the location where
Texas became Texas,” said
Cathy Nolte, complex
manager. “In 1836, men
from across the territoty of
Texas, delegates who had
been elected to come here,
declared independence
from Mexico. That was a
monumental event because
it created the Republic of
Texas.”
Patrick, introduced by
state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst,
will deliver a short key
note address Sunday before
cutting into a giant Texas
shaped birthday cake.
“We celebrate the cre
ation of the republic, our
independence for T exas,
on the weekend closest to
March 2 every year,” Nolt
said.
Nolt said that aside from
giving people the oppor
tunity to learn about the
history of Texas Indepen
dence, the weekend cel
ebration will also include a
wide range of activities in
cluding ceremonies, enter
tainment, special programs,
food vendors and reenact
ments.
According to a press re
lease, the event will also
mark the recent opening
of a local museum’s new
exhibit titled “Enduring
Spirit: African Americans in
19th Century Texas.” The
exhibit will will display slav
ery artifacts and will include
documents of the period
such as slave records, freed-
men contracts and an oath
of allegiance.
The event is about a
40-minute drive from Col
lege Station and most events
are free to the public.
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