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Houston Edward Summers IV (born October 26, 1983), known mononymously as Houston, is an American former R&B singer, [1] best known for his 2004 single "I Like That" (featuring Chingy and Nate Dogg). In 2005, Houston attempted suicide in a London hotel room, and later gouged his eye out with a fork on the 13th floor of his hotel building.
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The South Carolina woman who gouged her own eyeballs out during a meth-induced psychotic episode has adjusted to living in blindness and is much happier now - more than six years after the ...
The mythical Oedipus gouged his eyes out. Autoenucleation, also known as oedipism, is the self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs. [1]
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Self-enucleation or auto-enucleation (oedipism) and other forms of serious self-inflicted eye injury are an extremely rare form of severe self-harm that usually results from mental illnesses involving acute psychosis. [2] The name comes from Oedipus of Greek mythology, who gouged out his own eyes. [3]
"I immediately called 911 and it almost felt like the 911 dispatcher didn't even believe me. That's how crazy it was."
On December 9, 2008, Thomas removed his left eye and ate it. [16] [17] Thomas said he ingested his eye to prevent the United States federal government from reading his thoughts. [2] He was treated at a hospital in Tyler and then transferred to TDCJ's Jester IV Unit, which houses Texas prisoners with mental health problems. Thomas's trial ...