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With headaches, you’re alienated from yourself because your pain is so bad, and you don’t want to be there. At the same time, you’re alienated from everybody else because you have headaches: “I don’t want to go and be with people.” If I’m on meds, then I’m kind of spacey and can’t quite communicate my ideas. So there’s this kind of way that it becomes very selfish and self-centered.
From All in My Head
The 5th edition of Berry Go Round is being hosted at A Neotropical Savanna this month. A Neotropical Savanna is one of my favorite blogs, so you should definitely go check it out. But if you’re too lazy, I’ve got the best bits right here:
Thernstrom described chronic pain as “a pathology of the nervous system that produces abnormal changes in the brain and spinal cord,” meanwhile basically sucking up feel-good seratonin and leading to chemically induced depression and anxiety.
From All in My Head
So I officially give up on taking a picture every single day for a year. Instead, I resolve to just take more pictures.
So between it being summer and me being brain dead from migraines, I’ve watched a few movies lately. My extensive reviews:
movie – aliens? really? – musical, 1950s, French, whodunnit: camp AND a little twisted. Best movie ever. – I feel like it could have been way better. But it did manage to make me very very depressed. – everything an action movie should be – gosh, politics sucks. Wouldn’t it be great if more of us knew some history? Thanks, Ms. Skidmore! – I couldn’t finish it. Might have appreciated it more if I knew anything about Bob Dylan. – awesomeYou do not need ovens to create a fascist reality. All you need is fear.
From The End of America
“I didn’t want to kill myself, but I wanted to die.” Dying sounded fine, just for a little while at least, to get some relief – but suicide was too drastic. After all, the desire for self destruction and the desire of wanting pain to end can be two different things.
From All in My Head
