Rant number 331
I'm somewhat of a medical skeptic in many ways. I think that people give medical reasons to things too easily and that everything is a symptom or a syndrome according to someone or other.
A prime example of this is depression. Now don't get me wrong - I'm not saying that some people don't feel medically depressed due to horrible things in their lives. I don't agree that it should be thrown about in the way it is however. If you are depressed because your job sucks and you never have any money - you are a perfectly normal person and I really don't think that that constitutes any medical problems.
I also have been quite pessimistic of the so-called 'animal flus' that have appeared over the last couple of years. I don't know why these flus are:
A) Named after animals anyway
B) Meant to be worse than normal flu - which can kill you if you are a vulnerable person just the same as the animal flus.
C) Why they have only appeared over the last few days
D) (And most importantly) Who the hell was interfering with a chicken/pig enough to catch its case of flu. I'm guessing some spooning was involved is all I'm saying.
I know that they are severe illnesses - I myself got 'swine flu' (not from a pig may I mention) the winter before last and have never felt more ill. I even had a hallucination about a coffee machine - which is another story. The thing is, I don't think I've ever got non-animal flu - so I'm not able to compare it really.
Another thing thats been thrown around often is 's.a.d' (clever see they spelt sad...) which stands for 'Seasonal Affective Disorder.) Essentially, its a feeling of tiredness and fatigue around the change of seasons.
I definitely feel like I'm suffering with that at the mo - not so much through any medical reason - but merely due to a lack of daylight. Over the last week, its got even darker in the mornings and evenings - and the feeling has got under my skin!
Its most vexing!
Rant over.
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