Posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2009, at 7:19:56
In reply to Re: can you lift weights with plates in your bones, posted by alexandra_k on August 14, 2009, at 6:50:36
i have a folk theory. my folk theory goes like thus:
every time a cigarette goes out in the world... somewhere in the world, a cigarette lights up. conservation of lit things, or some such. of course the law is perfectly consistent with a decrease in smoking - so long as more than one cigarette goes out at the same time - only one needs to light up (so it isn't strictly speaking conservation, perhaps...
my reason for smoking: the significant majority of animals (with one exception) are afraid of fire. Except for one animal: humans. What do they do to show they ain't afraid of it? why, they stick things between their lips with fire on the ends and... smoke them. haha!!!!! I wonder how long it was between the discovery of controlled fire and the discovery of smoking!!!
and thinking of it that way - will i ever give up???
(dad died of lung cancer obviously as the result of smoking so i bloody well hope so)
here is another theory (probably on a par with the first). the conservation of health: hysterical paralyses simply don't cut it nowdays. what with our knowledge of neural circuits (and 'anatomically correct' forms of paralysis and all). now what do we get? a whole bunch of other things that aren't (typically) considered psychosomatic at all... i don't even want to suggest what (for fear of offending) but there are conditions taken extemely seriously by other specialities... conditions requiring surgery and all...
and some people present with a whole bunch of them (over time). and i... have chosen (advertently or inadvertently) to focus my attention on psychiatric complaints. but why??? given the stigma and so on and so forth... why on earth??? i'm physically fit as a fiddle (except for my injuries). but who on earth is to say who is better off... or whether there is a conservation of health phenomenon going on... sometimes people need a little care and attention... whatever its manifestation... for better or worse... maybe there is a conservation of health thing going on: people will express their sickness (discontents) in various ways... whatever those ways might be... but they will express them in some way... conservation of health, i say.
and p-doc registrar... with her black baby t (very cool in my book) gives me something to hold on to, in a sense. but what do you do when the image fades??? and really, are the non=mentally ill community any different from we? any different from me? who's to say...
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