Norequerdo | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 06:03 pm  So far reading Arreal's posts, totally turns me off. She seems to want to present herself as this wonderful person. The nursing home posts had me gagging. I doubt that she was fired for missing ten days of work due to her "depression" and then she had to have a supervisor with her while she was with the patients. Come on. That just doesnt ring true. There are also little glimpses of her attitude towards some of the patients. Anyone have any views on this. |
Ocean_Islands | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 06:11 pm  I think everything Arreal/Kearie says is true. She has a mentally ill diagnosis which she revealed under the "Josh is Depressed" thread. She has overcome a lot and has a lot of struggling going on. At the same time, I thought the nursing home topic was overkill -- kind of like, 'what else negative can we talk about.' I don't think it has anything to do with voting her out. |
Norequerdo | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 06:15 pm  I am not questioning her illness, I just question whether her spin on why she was fired was correct. She seems like she has a somewhat distorted view about her performance. An example is the one patient who she after a while felt she had developed a relationship with yet there were undertones in there that she was less than sympathetic. |
Katie | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 06:57 pm  Have you ever been a parent?? You can just love the kids to pieces but at the same time they can get to be a bit much sometimes. |
Norequerdo | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 07:00 pm  Oh I sure know about that. Half the time I want to kill my kid, then I want to hug him to death. Perhaps i was too harsh, my gut reaction when I read the posts was give me a break. So far my two favorites are Luke and Vykin. |
Adven39 | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 07:04 pm  Arreal/Kearie's a sweetie whose been through a lot. Because of it,I cut her much more slack than I would many other people. |
Katie | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 07:27 pm  She really is very sweet. Now this is just my opinion and I am not saying that I am necessarily right. Let me see how to put this. Kearie hasn't had the easiest of lives and because of that there are the mental health issues. I think that people with mental health issues are a bit more sensitive to things. Injustice in the world is a very big issue. They feel everything and feel it very deeply, want to right the wrongs in the world and make things right. This might explain her attitude on a lot of things but as I say, I am not Kearie and so I can't speak for her but just give my own thoughts and feelings on this. |
Adven39 | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 07:38 pm  Actually, I think you said it very well, Katie. Kearie's an impulsive innocent with a big heart. I don't think discussing larger issues is her strong suit. She is forced to as part of this game and is struggling at times to express herself clearly. |
Lafatme | Sunday, October 08, 2000 - 08:29 pm  i believe she said that she went to the nursing home today. she probably just "had" to vent and the board was handy. i've only known kearie for a few weeks (i'm assuming that she is arreal since that's the consensus) but i think she's real. she seems to be a very caring person, who still manages a great sense of humor. (from her pics a cutie too!) |
Norequerdo | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:18 pm  OK, I get all your points, and I realize I am totally new to this having just joined this week and am a newcomer so I don't know the players other than what I have read since Friday. My point on Areal though, I think is substantiated by her "most embarrassing moment" post. In the nursing home post she is talking about how she has to be supervised visiting the patients and she was fired for missing ten days of work. She also alluded to an unpleasant relationship with one patient but seemed to imply that they had reached an understanding, even though perhaps nobody else saw it that way (my interpretation of her statement I admit). Now it comes out that her most embarrassing moment was when she adapted one of her personalities. She has multiple personalities. Would you want someone with that sort of illness taking care of your grandmother??? To me this is just an example of her not being truthful and I doubt the sincerity of many of her saccharine posts. She seems to want to present herself as this heroine of the underdog and I am not sure I believe it. |
Guruchaz | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:26 pm  Like I said in an earlier post: There are people in there who beat around the bush or you have to bombard them with 50 replies before you can get their views out of them. That's excessive and I don't have time to sift through 200 posts to obtain one person's particular point of view on a portion of the conversation. Spit it out! |
Norequerdo | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:29 pm  Guru, I am not sure I understand you. Are you beating around the bush and you want to say something to me???? |
Guruchaz | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:33 pm  Of course you don't, you probably need a novel from Mantastic before you can actually get someone's point. I meant for mealy mouthed players like Arreal to spit it out! |
Norequerdo | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:44 pm  Damn, Guru, you should be in the game. It would sure liven things up I would nominate keeping you in to the end. |
Guruchaz | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 05:52 pm  Ahhh! People hate conflict out here but love it in there. Most of the people here are so hypocritical that it's sickening. |
Norequerdo | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 06:04 pm  Not me, I love to get things going. |
Enb | Monday, October 09, 2000 - 06:41 pm  I you read the thread called From Josh's mental health to our own Kearie does say some interesting stuff, including "To label them with some disorder because of their behavior in the house is very unfair. Labels can hurt and in some cases labels can follow a person around for life. If I were to be a house guest in BB2...feel free to label me, for I do have REAL diagnosis' " |
Nance | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 10:58 am  ArReal/Kearie is being very real. I liked what she had to say about the post "Josh being depressed".Who is best to say it then one who struggles with depression themselves...by which can be controlled by medication today, so have no fear in anyone with depression or personality disorder taking care of your grandmother or anyone for that matter.People with depression carry the weight of the world on thier shoulders and have a heart for all mankind. Cut the girl a break ! I applaud ArReal for addressing such a difficult topic and sharing it with us,what no one ever wants to talk about,until it is to late. |
Something | Tuesday, October 10, 2000 - 12:10 pm  I wouldn't mind "bumping" ArReal myself, or Moonsdance. |