How to go from smart to stupid
Most of you are probably familiar by now regarding the bizarre story of the NASA astronaut Mrs. Novak and her attempted murder charge initiated by Colleen Shipman. She's obviously intelligent or perhaps more of an overachiever, but on Tuesday she took the plunge into "wonderland" from the platform of reality.......yep, she drove herself completely out of this world. She is a rocket scientist who turned into a imbecile-moron, pleading with the victim, Mrs. Shipman, to open the door so that she could kidnap her.
This case is SO WEIRD, and it's one of the few cases where analysis reveals several aspects which are WEIRDER STILL.
She was obviously in some type of total despair and seems to have an indulgent disposition. I would say that it is the latter characteristic which separates her from 'normal'.
She may have confirmed her worst fear when her marriage ended, this shattered a fragile image of herself, which was employed previously to suffice in satisfying an indulgent personality.......the next best incentive was her desire for a certain man. I could somewhat identify with this situation, and I'm sure that many others can also. If you're someone who strives for a perfect grade point average, and you obtain a C+ on a biology test as an undergraduate at a certain university, the consequential tendency is to become delusionally impulsive. Part of this is because the individual has basically set himself/herself up for a state of shock. It really depends on how much of a habitual perfectionist the individual is. Apparently, her "image" was on a relatively grandeur scale then most people, and she had a bad personality to go with it. She's truly unique and what she did is truly sad. I'm pretty sure that she wouldn't have actually killed Mrs. Shipman and hopefully the court is going to recognize that she had some type of an amnesically insane episode.
