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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.
Thomas said he ingested his eye to prevent the federal government of the United States from reading his thoughts. [ 8 ] On February 6, 2018, a 20-year old American, Kaylee Muthart, received national attention after she gouged both her eyes out while high on methamphetamine , believing that "sacrificing her eyes [would] save the world". [ 9 ]
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]
She may be permanently blind, but Kaylee Muthart is sober and at peace three months after gouging her own eyes out. "It, actually, feels really nice," Muthart told People .
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 ...
Eye-gouging is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury , such as eye loss or blindness. Eye-gouging as a fighting style was once a popular form of sport fighting in the back-country United States , primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The emphasis on maximum disfigurement, on severing bodily parts, made this fighting style unique. Amid the general mayhem, however, gouging out an opponent's eye became the sine qua non of rough-and-tumble fighting, much like the knockout punch in modern boxing. The best gougers, of course, were adept at other fighting skills.