Depression Depression is a insidious disorder. Often you don’t know how bad it really is until something triggers such a reaction that you say “oh dear heavens, I want to die”. Depression and thoughts of death go hand in hand. Not always, but chances are if you’re thinking of your […]
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Be warned, this is a rant, but a rant full of science. To start, I am pro vaccine, and pro living my life to the best I can. I can’t believe that I’m still finding people who won’t get vaccinated against this pandemic that is COVID-19. The Delta variant (and […]
Friendships when you have any illness, chronic or temporary, are hard. When it is a temporary illness, you can be forgiven for cancelling something. But when it is a chronic illness, forgiveness wanes over time. As we fight our bodies to do what we ask, often the simplest tasks become […]
You know those videos of injured runners at places like the Olympics? The ones where the runner refuses to quit, even though they’ve obviously hurt themselves badly? This video from the 1992 Olympics is the kind of thing I am thinking about: https://youtu.be/t2G8KVzTwfw Derek Redmond hurts himself, and he refuses […]