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[hummingwolf]

You know what I hate about the mind-body connection? The fact that you never know if it's the mind causing the body's problems, or if the body's disrupting the mind. There aren't any labels to tell you

Your current freakout session is caused by the flu.

Please rest for 48 hours before doing anything you will regret later.

or

Your current stomachache is caused by your anxiety.

Please make that damn phone call you should have made last week before this turns into an ulcer.

Why don't these things come with labels? Life would be so much easier then.

Comments

[madralaoi.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Yeah, I know. Nothing is simple. :P

[bluegreen17]

i've been searching for a proper life guidebook,but even though i've read hundreds of things that purport to be that,i think they are all different parts of the elephant. or something like that. so i hear ya!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at the moment I "should" be performing action X. And at the moment, I have no idea if doing X now would make things better or worse. It seems like my body's telling me there's no energy to do anything while my mind's telling me I need to do lots of stuff, and not knowing what to do is only making me feel worse.

Gahhh.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

At the moment, all I can really say about the elephant is that it seems to enjoy stepping on my toes.

[aint2nuts.livejournal.com]

Oh labels would be great, big neons signs would be better and best of all would be a wristband computer that sent messages when things like stress happen. *G*

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes. I want a message service that tells me clearly what I'm supposed to be doing, darn it. Or at least one that warns me when I'm about to make matters worse!