Good afternoon, I’ve had an idea of when to stop smoking which may work for others and myself better than New Year’s Eve: May 1st or First Quit Day as I’m going to call it.
The theory is based on my belief that if you can replace the hormones you get from smoking naturally it will be that much easier to stop.
And as I posted previously vitamin D from sunlight will eventually end up partly as dopamine in the brain, just as cigarettes give you a boost of dopamine.
Therefore if I fail to quit in January I will try again on First Quit Day, May 1st and favour food and drink that produces vitamin C and D without eating an unbalanced diet.
And this is where I go way out leftfield again, I’m going to try to wear darker clothes, rather than the bright clothes of summer, the theory being that this will absorb more heat from the sun and speed everything up.
I believe both Stoptober and New Year’s Eve are better times to give up drinking alcohol, due to the lower levels of sunlight and the way alcohol affects the body.
Just for a change I’m being sincere when I tell you God is real and the Holy Bible is His book.
For the last six months or so since being released from Goodmayes psychiatric gulag I’ve been hearing voices almost constantly. At first I thought it was just the powerful drugs they forced on me there, then I came to believe it was the security services using some sort of special synthetic telepathy to recruit me but over Christmas and Boxing Day I came to know that the Lord had finally revealed himself to me and wanted me to seek absolution for a lifetime of sin including violence and the serious hurt I’d caused other people without thought and he showed me both his love and his wrath.
I prayed.
He has told me He will choose my judgement as He will all men when it is their time and He has ordered me to attend Church on a Sunday for the rest of my life and to help an elderly friend and neighbour with mobility problems attend Church himself (which he has done his whole life). I had been thinking about going anyway because he was a nice man and a friend of the family and he knew and wanted to save my soul through the Lord.
I know I must attend Church, God willing for the rest of my life and pray earnestly for my sins and in time He will reveal His purpose for you as he did me.
I’ve been told to help the NHS improve the mental Health Services as much as possible because so many fine people have had their whole lives blighted, shortened and ended through poor medical care as I have. He’s already educated me in ways to do this and I have found the correct way to get this message across and tested and proven safely and because I know so many patients locally I know that there are some fantastic observations in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest because they all seem like ordinary people with personalities, interests, dreams and desires like the rest of us, but from an early age they end up spending their whole lives lonely and alone, dependent, drowsy, shaky and damaged unnecessarily.
Good evening, it’s 6pm here and I’m feline good at the moment and in the mood to write something a bit off beat which may interest one or two of you, particularly if you like music and have pets.
For no particular reason I remembered an article I read yonks ago that stated that cats and dogs can like some human music but not all genres and found that some excellent recent research had recently been done by the University of Wisconsin.
The research suggested that cats didn’t like Bach’s Air on a G String.
Frankly it’s a beautiful bit of music but listening to it I came to the conclusion that the multiple violins are way too high pitched for a cat to enjoy: cats screech when they’re in distress and purr when they’re relaxed.
So then I wondered whether a cello soloist (cats are generally solitary) was more to a cats taste and found the following piece of Bach’s music.
But here is the bit where I lay claim to being a smart arse, The University of Wisconsin researchers asked a composer to come up with music that cats like and here are the results.
So pussy lovers don’t ban Bach, ban the violence of the violin.
And here’s one for dog lovers, Pennywise over Pink Floyd.
That’s my own suggestion
Finally I’m going to go really left field and suggest that a lazy lion might get that bit more lively and hungry with a bit of old school drum ‘n’ base or maybe some proper thrash metal.
I reckon this set at Wacken would wake ’em.
It’s no surprise this plastic cockney has spent the best part of 15 years in the UK’s knackered mental health system.
Not just cities, but towns and cities in new countries I either haven’t visited or haven’t visited in decades.
Back in my 20’s and 30’s I did a lot of sailing and lived on my own small yacht in the Mediterranean for 5 years which I thoroughly enjoyed.
At the age of 53 and possibly having a mid life crisis along with some other trauma and life changing and possibly affirming events over the last couple of years I have decided I would like to sail again while the spirit is willing and the flesh just about up to it too.
This time I thought I’d like to see more of the UK, Europe’s Atlantic coastline and the Baltic. Writing this post I’ve even thought of a potential route, weather, winds and tides permitting: from the UK down to the Channel Islands, across to Brittany, north to the Baltic and then eventually back via the Shetlands. There seem to be so many fantastic and beautiful old towns on this route and sailing is a cheap and efficient way to see them (as long as you don’t get too scared or seasick).
I’ve even started looking for boats that would be suitable and found the below one, the Vindo 40. They’re beautiful boats and very seaworthy, unsurprising having been built in Sweden, but they’re not the only type I’d consider as long as it can cope with the odd gale.
Good morning globe, todays missive from the massive comes all the way from a different Angle (me!).
I am going to make an argument that vitiligo (light patches on the skin) is not an illness at all, it is a useful evolutionary adaptation that occurs due to the global climate’s tendency to change naturally over time.
Firstly, the sun’s rays are essential in helping us produce and regulate a number of vitamins and hence hormones in the body, ask yourself why English people go red and then tan on the Costa Del sol and why you notice the black people in western society with white patches on their face and hands (known as vitiligo).
I then looked up whether there was a connection between vitiligo and depression (I expected to find a positive answer and did). The point is it’s hard to work out whether this is caused by psychological factors (it makes you stand out and look different) or the condition itself.
But then maybe it’s just the body’s way of adapting to a changed or changing climate and actually should be left untreated and celebrated as just a natural and healthy part of who you are and not considered an illness at all and covered up, maybe the increased sun exposure from having lighter skin could be your body simply telling you it’s happier this way and producing more feel good dopamine from vitamin D.
NO ONE DIES FROM VITILIGO.
Ask yourself why having freckles is cute and vitiligo is ugly? I don’t see the difference, neither of them are a problem.
WARNING: I am not a medical professional, scientist or nutritionist: please do not act on any of my posts carelessly if you suffer from any sort of diagnosed mental health condition without speaking to professionals first.
I’m going to start this post with a link to a youtube video from Dr. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University which touches on the topic of this post; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
If you find this post of any interest I recommend watching up to the point when he moves on to diabetes, it’s not so long and in my opinion Dr. Sapolsky is really quite brilliant and engaging.
I started thinking about OCD because I can recognise traits of the disorder in myself, although I manage to reconcile myself with them in that they don’t seem to cause me any real harm. I am a bit of a hoarder, I have around 5,000 music CD’s, but then music is a big part of my life and may be related to the need for sensory stimulus stemming from being on the autistic spectrum and I collect art and ceramics which may also be linked.
At first when watching Dr. Sapolsky I started wondering whether there was an evolutionary reason for human OCD and it seems a reasonable argument.
My theory was that the OCD trait may be more prevalent in those people whose ancestors were either in occupations that required a lot of discipline and/or who lived in environments where survival itself was often precarious.
Thinking about the ancestors I know about, on my father’s side there were small tenant farmers, a fairly long history of forces men and women and coal miners and servants. All occupations that would have needed and expected strong discipline.
There is quite likely Jewish ancestry on my mother’s side although I don’t know of any obviously Jewish names as far back as I have gone, but once again this is a group which has often lived precariously as a minority amongst frequently hostile populations. That may have led to a desire to accumulate for safety and security – a way of buying yourself out of trouble if need be.
But watching Dr. Sapolsky’s video he talks about religiosity and learned behaviour as being driven by the amygdala and I wondered, once again, whether there weren’t dietry changes which may help me control my impulsive tendency to accumulate things I know I don’t really need.
A quick internet search revealed that the main neutoransmitters active in the amygdala are glutamate ones and inhibitory GAMA ones and the vitamin or vitamins that affect these: vitamin B6.
That led me on to look for sources of vitamin B6 and I found the site below which is worth a look.
I wonder then should I be eating more tuna or spinach and then see if I don’t have to buy that shirt in the charity shop that I never really needed in the first place.
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