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Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for Mortals. I hope the last two episodes on Schizophrenia has been interesting and informative to everyone. This week I will be concluding the series on Schizophrenia and focusing on its victims. I will also finish off the list of famous people who have been successful by having great lives and careers while living with the disorder.

My sources this week were: https://www.online-psychology-degrees.org/20-famous-people-with-schizophrenia/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996401003796

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.454.7265&rep=rep1&type=pdf

If you or anyone you know are suffering please reach out to your National Suicide Prevention Line:

AU - Lifeline 13 11 14

UK - National Suicide Helpline UK 0800 689 5652

USA - 800-273-TALK (8255)

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for mortals. I hope that the last months lighter episodes has given everyone a break and also some different subjects to sink you teeth into. As promised this week I will be starting my next three part series on Schizophrenia and all the facets of the disorder. Of course I can only cover so much and this is just an introduction and if you would like more information there is plenty of reading sources and I will add some interesting sources and sites in the show notes.

My sources this week were:

https://www.therapyroute.com/article/movies-about-schizophrenia-mental-health-related-films-by-e-sinisi

https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/mental-health-schizophrenia

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schizophrenia

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443

Thank you for listening to another episode of Macabre for mortals, If you have any case or subject you would like me to cover then please drop me an email at [email protected]. Or alternatively send me a DM on Instagram at Macabre for mortals. Next week I will be coving Schizophrenia in criminal cases. I hope you have a great week and stay safe wherever in the world you are! Bye!

Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of Macabre for mortals. I hope that you enjoyed last weeks episode on Werewolves. I have to apologise for the week gap in between the last two episodes. As I have said I have a head study month the month of June and everything just seemed to catch up with me, but I am back on schedule now and looking forward to the next few months of continuous episodes.

This week, as promised, I will be speaking about blood spatter. I read a book about six years ago called blood secrets by Rod Englert and it has always stuck me since how much investigators can tell from a scene just by the blood spatter. Don’t get me wrong this is not for the feint hearted.

My sources this week where Wikipedia, forensiccolleges.com and forensic sciences simplified.

https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/resources/7-things-about-blood-spatter-analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodstain_pattern_analysis

http://www.forensicsciencesimplified.org/blood/principles.html

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I hope you all have a great week and I look forward to speaking to you next week. I hope you stay safe wherever in the world you are. Bye!

Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of macabre for murder. I hope last weeks episode was a little different to the normal true crime episodes and that it gave you some enlightening information on the case of Shaun.

This week I will be delving into another subject, that of werewolves. Since I was young the lore of vampires and werewolves has fascinated me. I have read many fantasy and sci-fi fiction on these groups and I always wanted to know more about were these lores came from and how they have morphed into the stories of today. I find it fascinating that no matter were in the world, at each point of history, human beings has similar stories about creatures of the night. They shared many common characteristics but also had some differences based on the culture they were formed from. This always makes me awe inspired that even though we are different through time and culture we still have the same train of thought.

My sources this week were Wikipedia

History.com, The conversation and Mythus fandom

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Werewolf

https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-origins-of-werewolves-104775

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-the-werewolf-legend#:~:text=Early%20Werewolf%20Legends,-It's%20unclear%20exactly&text=Werewolves%20made%20another%20early%20appearance,remains%20of%20a%20sacrificed%20boy.&text=Werewolves%20also%20emerged%20in%20early%20Nordic%20folklore.

As seen by the amount of information I can collect on these types of episodes I will eventually cover other such mythical creatures such as Vampires and Mermaids for slightly lighter episodes. I enjoy these subject and I believe they do make up the nature of humans. The tapestry of our past makes us the picture of who we are today, and only we can alter it for future generations.

Next week I am going to be broaching the subject of Blood spatter and how it is used, its strengths and its weaknesses.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Macabre for Mortals. Thank you for all the lovely comments that I have received in regards to my last few series. It is really encouraging to read such great responses.

I was a bit unsure about what true crime I was going to cover this week. I would like to cover a serial killer but I am trying to find a way to cover the crimes with having the victims still central. I will cover one of the serial killers in which I have done quite a lot of research on in my time. But I think that is going to come after my next in depth series on Schizophrenia.

This week I am going to cover the case of Shaun Ouilette, which I have just watched a documentary on and the interview was mainly with his mother. I felt that this kind of documentary was well done as it focused mainly on Shaun and what he was like as a person and only touched on his killer slightly towards the end of the episode.

For myself, I feel I have been able to empathise with the victims of crimes, but since becoming a mother something has become far more poignant whenever anything happens to a child. I imagine how I would feel in this mothers situation and honestly I think it would kill me or bring me to the brink of it. People who are grieving or experience this sort of trauma have such amazing strength. I know eventually they resent hearing that because they shouldn’t have to be strong, they should never have had to experience this sort of trauma. To these victims, I am sorry you have had to bear this.

This murder was also covered in a Law and Order Episode, and honestly they did it justice. The one thing I have always respected about this show is the fact that they don’t gloss over the hard parts of a crime. It maybe glamourised but they always show the disappointments and the wrongs in every part of the case. The episode is called Trust and was released in 1992, if you are interested in giving it a watch after listening to this episode.

My sources where - https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/09/27/rod-matthews-denied-parole-for-third-time-shaun-ouillette-murder/7zHCtAsjhudUOOmqVVF0nO/story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/us/murder-for-thrill-described-at-a-trial.html

https://www.thecantoncitizen.com/2012/10/10/matthews-parole-hearing/

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Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of Macabre for Mortals. As mentioned on Last weeks episode I will be covering the second part of the Greek Myths. You can listen to either part in any order as I do not think there is any parts that lead on to others.

Thank you to everyone for their great feed back on the last series, I really appreciate it and it is really encouraging to hear after lots of hours of work has been put into the episodes.

My sources for this week were ; https://greektraveltellers.com/blog/30-of-the-most-famous-tales-from-greek-mythology

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Hello and welcome to this weeks episode of Macabre for mortals. As you can hopefully hear I am feeling so much better this week and I have finally got my voice back and I feel almost back to normal.

This week I am going to be concluding my episode on post traumatic stress disorder and I am going to focus of victims who experience the disorder and the research that has been carried out into this.

Just a reminder that June is Post Traumatic Disorder’s focus month, I know myself I will be making myself more aware of the community and also donating to the causes in order to help the people suffering. I hope this series will have given you the insight into the disorder and might give you some ideas or tools to help yourself or those you love.

My sources this week : McFarlane, A. C., & Papay, P. (1992). Multiple diagnoses in posttraumatic stress disorder in the victims of a natural disaster. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 180(8), 498–504. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-199208000-00004

Learning and Memory in Rape Victims With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Melissa A. Jenkins 1998 https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.155.2.278

The predictive value of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms for quality of life: a longitudinal study of physically injured victims of non-domestic violence

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes volume 5, Article number: 26 (2007) https://hqlo.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1477-7525-5-26

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Hello and Welcome to another Episode of Macabre for Mortals. This is part two of the three-part series on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. As we learned from the first episode, there are lots of ways for PTSD to emerge and also a lot of ways the symptoms can develop. As with most disorders there is not a one size fits all diagnosis. This is mostly down to our new invested interest in the field of mental health. I say this since the medical field has been interested in disease and the workings of the human body for thousands of years. But when it came to mental health, it was a lot easier to lock people away and forget about them than understand what the brain is going through. However, like physicians of the past, I believe that at times we are so eager to find out about mental health that we pigeonhole symptoms and patients into the wrong categories too fast rather than spending quality time and finding their correct diagnosis or their unique symptomology.

My sources this week:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3402156/- European Journal of Psychotraumology.

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/185/1-2/92/5521035

https://www.research.va.gov/currents/0820-Veterans-with-PTSD-more-likely-to-have-justice-system-involvement.cfm

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I hope everyone has a great week and I please keep safe where ever in the world you are. Bye!