It seems like it just gets worse and worse in Afghanistan.

In what seems to be a not-very-uncommon tragedy, an Afghan woman set herself on fire outside a courthouse in Mehtaralam. A judge had just chastised her for seeking a divorce, and without much else to do instead, she doused herself in gasoline that she'd smuggled into the courthouse under her burka and set herself on fire.

The international press knows little about the details of the incident, except for the woman's first name — Pakhtana — and that she's 25. Back in December, we wrote about a similar case with a girl going through a divorce at the age of 11.

While Afghanistan has officially lossened the rules for women in the post-Taliban era, tragedies like this are occurring almost daily. It is so common in that part of the world that incidents like this one are barely making the papers.

I have to wonder — are these women doing this because they want to die? Or is it like the ever-increasing trend of cutting and self-mutilation that takes place among young women in the West? Experts say that the victims of this type of self-abuse do it not as a suicide attempt, but because the pain is so great on the inside that any kind of physical expression of it is a relief.

Pakhtana is in a local hospital, recovering from her injuries.

It looks like when Amy Winehouse's incarcerated hubby threatened divorce, he thought it was the only way he could make her see reason. Both Blake Fielder-Civil and Amy's mother believe that she is flirting with overdose and may have only months to live.

"I've already come to terms with her dead," says her mother, Janis. "I've steeled myself to ask her what ground she wants to be buried in, which cemetery. Because the drugs will get her if she stays on this road. She's invited me to the Grammy awards next month, but part of me thinks she won't be alive by then."

Recent TV stories have shown grainy video footage of Amy lighting and smoking a crack pipe, and everyone around her is worried. It looks like Blake's pleas have worked in the short-term, at least, and Amy checked herself into rehab on Saturday.

"Every day I fear the prison chaplain is going to walk into my cell and break the news that Amy is dead," says Fielder. He has given up drugs for good, and wants her to do the same. He says he wants them to grow old together and sees no possibility for that while she's still spending $1000 a day on cocaine.

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The public turnaround of Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is an inspiration to divorced women everywhere. Where our own marriage and personal failings and mistakes are embarrassing in front of our families, friends, and maybe the readers of our blogs, Fergie's have been published everywhere. Yes, splitting up with my husband was difficult, but not as difficult as waking up to find you've been renamed The Duchess of Pork by the entire British press.

No wonder she gained so much weight.

Fergie gave a talk in California on Monday night as part of their Distinguished Speakers program and talked about her divorce, her kids, her weight issues — the whole gamut. "My only friend was food," she said. "My pet ponies and food got me through."

She went on to explain that she and Prince Andrew still share a home together, where they raise their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, although they have no plans to reconcile. It's simply a convenient and secure environment in which to raise their daughters. "I still do love my handsome prince, but it just works better for us this way to keep things the way they are."

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all that well adjusted?

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