Sunday, July 23, 2006
random rants

took offense with an article in the economist. some woman called dr flor is of the opinion that 'pain is a form of unpleasant memory', and her team has 'used cognitive behavioural therapy to train patients with fibromyalgia not to react to pain but to focus on enjoyable activities'. and the writer of this article, clearly a very sensitive and well-informed soul, states grandly that 'after all, pain is all in the mind. indeed, pain itself is an illusion, a phantom in the brain.' to which, my phantom-haunted brain immediately replied with a 'screw you, what do you know'. upon regaining cognitive abilities, despite my oh-so handicapped state, however, i decided that the unfortunate author must not have had the chance to feel pain in recent months! perhaps the therapy has worked so well on him already that, having no memory of pain whatsoever, he has confused those mildly uncomfortable nerve-transmitted signals with some other as-yet-unidentified condition. i can come up with a few suggestions off the top of my head - perhaps 'tremors and aching caused by one's brain leaking out of one's head', or maybe a more politically correct 'unavoidable imbecility caused by an inability to constructively empathize, much less sympathize with unfortunate sufferers of a now-defunct body-warning signal previously known as pain'. perhaps he would find it easier to empathize with chronic pain sufferers if he could experience what they do. i personally recommend hiring a 60 kg woman to dance up and down his entire body in stilettos for an hour every day for two months. while not being all-encompassing, it may be hoped that he will find it easier to reconcile himself to the idea that pain, after all, may be less restricted to his pompous brain than say, his completely unjustified assumptions that deliberately gloss over what he is apparently incapable of understanding.

on a lighter note, i have discovered the joys of eating raw carrots. must say i'm addicted to them now. but only when they're fresh from the fridge. goal of the week - to last the school day. every day. adjusting better to the new medication, hopefully things sort themselves out soon. it's hy's birthday next sunday. but what do you get a girl who already has everything she needs, and can buy anything she wants?
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