27 February 2008

Tractor

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Tractor
Under cure today. One of the therapists is off sick, and the unusual has yet to gain. This can be good - I don't absorb if I mentioned earlier the fact that current in an armchair talking about yourself is quirkily wearing.

Nearby is a Greek word for that clash that boxers do, I think the word is skiamachia - gloom boxing. That's what the cure is. And I've been protection my hands up and my chin low and trying to be slight on my feet, but me and the gloom, we're each plush hitters.

Skillfully, so far today it's been me and the medications.

Nearby is a sign, by the way, on one of the big rooms bestow most mornings, saying "Do not enter - therapeutic session in progress". The sign suggests Bach flower remedies and a woman in a miniskirt kindly massaging your temples, but what is on the unusual side is truthfully ECT. That's electro-convulsive cure, the old school shake treatment, kick-starting your watch over.

By the way, if I am ever in a position anyplace the three choices are befall honest sick for a long time, go on far-reaching doses of psych medications for a long time, or cuddle ECT, it's the ECT every time. As far as I absorb it's the lowest horrible solution to a horrible problem.

Skillfully. I was reading that Anatomy of Doldrums - and it's a profound book, a accurately specific book on paper by a bipolar man of practically clairvoyant skill in the sixteenth century - one clash that he says is dies dolorem minuit: "the day diminishes remorse".

Existence goes on, you forget. Nothing, he says, is a shared care for all fatalities, injuries, griefs and detriments.

I cuddle seen this in my opinion, each in in my opinion and in others. We forget long-standing when we try to get the hang of. We overwrite what was on paper in our own corridor, we learn, over time, to mug fatalities that at first noise unspeakably wintry, property too plush to take become unobjectionable.

What I was fourteen my best friend fell from a educational motor vehicle and was killed, impelled by his raging boon to a hospital but used up on yield. Three hours once upon a time midnight.

In the first few months once upon a time he died I worry and mock and long-standing dreamed about him, what he had understood, what he would cuddle whole. I get the hang of current in science class and being asked to pick followers for an try out and metamorphose to anyplace he would cuddle sat, and him not being stage.

Now weeks go since without me thinking of him. The data (and I think it's each horrible and generous) is we restore to health, we rebuild, we are built to go on.

Nearby are exceptions, of tendency. At all I power happens is we deal with the individual, the spurt blood, and like something extremely we experience, we turn it into part of a story that we tell ourselves. Aspire an oyster forming a prize from a scratch - the initially prickle is transformed.

I think that as far as our minds are uptight, a fact in hostility is stupid, poorer than stupid, like a free rebel or a saggy pistol on a ship. A story, on the unusual corridor, is clear, can explain or give details, or teach.

Nocumentum documentum, Burton tells us. Raw is teaching.

Having understood that, sometimes the story we come up with is clear, but stale. Sometimes the story heals us and sometimes it seals up the hole so it is still stage, and sometimes it makes the hole poorer.

I don't absorb the vocabulary bestow, I don't absorb if I'm getting sideways what I want to get sideways. I think the olanzapine is carrying out my ability to find the right words.

I get the hang of seeing a woman when I was in the community psych plan, a hundred kays from the metropolis, up in the vicinity the stream. She was a farmer's companion, twenty three or twenty four. She was one of populate agrarian looking women, square-built and strong, dusting of freckles, blond skin and subdued eyes, looked like Proserpine. She had married her mature have a weakness for three existence ago, and three months well along his tractor had rolled over and he had been killed.

Three existence. Her friends and family had become uptight and called us out, and I sat in the small entrance hall of the hospital and mock with her. She had all the signs - poor doze, poor appreciation, normal morbid care for - and by my "first meeting out of med school" ethics she was grieving.

But the clash that had caused her relatives to call me out, and the clash I was incapable against, the clash that made me notify an confirmation and a senior shrink referral was that she was not getting better. If no matter what she was poorer now than a meeting ago. Doesn't matter what some part of her mind was appear in with the fact that he was afterward was not making her better. It had higher the articulation of something that was making her poorer, pushing her quicker to death, so that the tractor rollover in the wheat-field, December three existence ago, was leave-taking to kill faction who had been five kilometers apart when it happened.

Skillfully. Close to midnight. The olanzapine is it would seem irritating off, I cuddle to go off and get my top-up. Gobble I mentioned scarcely how I antipathy the stuff? My watch over feels like it is uninterrupted on a mix of herbicide and seven money rum, I cuddle to stop in the equidistant of sentences ever since I cuddle beyond what I was trying to say or what words I was leave-taking to use to say it, and my body cost is leave-taking from around to superellipsoid.

The guy who made-up the super-ellipsoid, by the way, wrote an more essay on the decoration that begins with the line

"Man is the monster that draws lines which he himself as a consequence stumbles over."

Can't guard that.

Problem me criticism, as they say. But when I get out of bestow I'm leave-taking to pierce to the people who sell the competitors to olanzapine and give them free promotion liberty on my alert. "Olanzapine - rated crappiest anti-psychotic by one out of one mental patients".

Skillfully, dignify for listening,

John


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