H13.com
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H13.com - Visions, Madness, Dreams...
Description
About me, you will probably never know who I am. Call me Stand. Please don't try to discover who I really am, because I know there are ways to do it — I would rather be anonymous. When no one knows who this really is, I can be totally free to dump the raw contents of my mind, more or less unfiltered.
What is H13? It is a journal of my story. Everyone has a story of his or her life, this one is mine. The "H" has a certain special meaning in my life, though I can't tell you what. Sorry. Let me tell you the things I can: I am a Korean-American man who, at separate points, has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and manic depression. I have been institutionalized 5 times through the two main "episodes" of madness, the first having lasted from July 1991 through about April 1997, the second from about August 2001 through the middle of October 2001. My story is scattered through this site. I actually went through the second episode while this site was up. May prove interesting reading.
Some geography: born in South Korea; moved to the U. S. while quite young; grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia; went to college in Pittsburgh, PA, where the madness onset; stayed with my parents in that suburb of Philadelphia during much of my first episode (with a layover in Korea); graduated college after many years and moved to San Francisco, CA; it was in San Francisco where my second "episode" hit. Before the episode, I held down a job for almost 3 years without incident, and it was not because of the madness that I left it. It was boredom. After the second episode, I lived in the East Bay Area, staying there for about two years, then restlessness hit me again. I currently reside in Seoul, Korea, but I'll probably go back to the US at some point.
