Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a survival strategy.
A very good post and person.Do read it as it is heartening
Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a survival strategy.
A very good post and person.Do read it as it is heartening
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http://xwww.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/06/boris-johnson-missed-point-
This is an interesting article about how acceptance is so important for us in order to live the best way we can. when we have problems,neuroses etc.This website,The Negative Psychologist is one I came upon when reading another blog here.
http://www.thenegativepsychologist.com/2013/02/acceptance/
How to be original by obeying one simple rule:never obey a rule.
How to be chaste by one simple method:Get a phobia about sex.Vomit when it comes into your mind.That will deter others but is it worth it?
How to be kind:Pretend all other people are you.
How to sleep well:Try to stay awake all night.
How to keep calm when drowning:Go with the flow.
How to be happy:Let yourself be sad.
How to get thin:Have a nasty lover.
How to get fat:Never move except on wheels
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Do read this
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When I was fifteen or so, my mother waded through the sea of clothes, books, school work and teenage flotsam and jetsam that covered my floor, and sat on the edge of my bed with tears in her eyes. I had to clean up, she said. It was really important that I get the room sorted. I made some excuse, but she cast her eyes downwards, subtly wiping a tear from the corner.
“I had a friend who never cleaned up. Every time you went into her house, the house was a complete bomb site. She had junk all over every surface. And she ended up in Ward 12B.”
Ward 12B, for those who never had the chance to go there, was the mental health ward at the old Canberra Hospital. So apparently, Mum believed that mess drove you mad and that cleaning was protective. It’s a particularly amusing little…
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http://reflight.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/wilson-van-dusen-1-looking-at-madness.html
Wilson Van Dusen was a very interesting man.Some of his views I am unsure of but his book,The Natural Depth in Man,shows how much we don’t see normally when we look at others.
He was a mystic in a sense.And he worked with people with severe disturbances.His definition of madness that it renders the person useless.Also introspection is bad when one is in a vulnerable state.. better to do useful,practical tasks like sweeping the floor.And always be polite.In other words,stay in touch with others and this world.
CAN YOU TELL LIES?
Some people can’t fantasise
I wonder if they can’t tell lies?
Reveries suits me…
I daydream at tea.
Maybe my best friends are spies?
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I was thinking last night that I would love it if anyone wants to share their favorite authors.I suggest that you can do this by putting a comment on the About Me page.I got one from one person which gave me the idea