Category Archives: health & happiness

oo-oo-ooo . . .

20 Tuesday Mar 2007

Posted by in health & happiness, life stuff, musings, rants, weird

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. . . I wanna be like you-oo-ooo! f_musicalnote.giff_musicalnote.giff_musicalnote.gif

Have you ever noticed that your online character/personality occasionally attracts people who think this is who you really are and then they make a massive effort to become your ‘friend’ when in fact they are actually wishing they could be like you? Except of course they have no idea who you are.

These people are kinda scary . . . because if you don’t respond in kind you go from being perched on a pedestal you never wanted to be on anyhow to being whatever sort of monster can be fabricated, usually something they are most afraid of that has nothing whatsoever to do with you, in order to justify whatever nastiness they come up with to knock you off said pedestal.

Ah, public life, eh? Next I’ll be shaving my head . . .

sweet dreams …

14 Wednesday Mar 2007

Posted by in health & happiness, life stuff, love

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. . . are made of this?

More and more couples in the US are ordering separate master bedrooms in their new homes to help ensure a more harmonious marriage, research suggests.

What do you think? I’ve always thought having separate bedrooms (what the heck, separate suites) would be a fabulous way to live together with an intimiate other. You’d still get all the togetherness and sharing stuff, and of course you could still sleep together anytime you both wanted to … in fact, wouldn’t that be even sexier than always having to sleep together due to lack of space? You could take turns inviting each other over when you felt like having company, and when you felt like reading half the night or just having a comfy whole-bed-to-yourself experience you could do that too.

Well, if it’s good enough for royalty . . .

Meanwhile, the article also makes some good points about conflicting schedules, sleeping habits, etc. getting in the way of an otherwise happy relationship.

the talking cure

23 Friday Feb 2007

Posted by in health & happiness, life stuff, musings

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From today’s Grauniad.

Illness – even cancer – is the body’s way of communicating, but doctors don’t have time to listen. Psychoanalysis may take years to make you better, but it beats quick-fix therapies.

My GP in Canada was fond of saying that he treated people, not just symptoms, and it’s true that I’ve never met another doctor like him. He was well-known for being an excellent diagnostician and I think the main reason for that was that he took time to listen to what his patients were actually saying to him.

I think the article raises some good points about how health care systems tend to pigeon-hole patients far too much, though I’m not sure that everyone would benefit from psychoanalysis. Still, sometimes just being able to talk and feel like someone is really listening can make a world of difference in how we feel both physically and emotionally. It’s odd how in most western societies we often ignore the obvious connection between physical and mental well-being.