Posts Tagged ‘Addiction’

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The Class Hottie

by Seraphine Khorana on June 28th, 2010
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The Class Hottie

The class hottie is blonde. She wears heels to class. She doesn’t talk to anyone except, before class begins, she talks on her cellphone. She doesn’t look up when the instructor is talking; she doodles on a note pad. She leaves before class is finished. Yes, this is all true.
I’m taking an accelerated class: sixteen weeks of evening study delivered in eight weeks.
My camera broke. I am having photography withdrawals. I am having to go “cold turkey” until my new Canon Powershot arrives in the mail.

In the state of withdrawal, the addict’s blood is directed to the internal organs leaving the skin white and with goose bumps.
Quotation from www.phrases.org.uk, on the meaning of “cold turkey”

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At Other Times, I Feel Blessed

by Seraphine Khorana on June 1st, 2010
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At Other Times, I Feel Blessed

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. Those are the five stages of, well, everything seriously bad that happens to us– grief, lost relationships, addiction, job dislocation and death– to name a few (as if one can bargain with grief and death).
Nothing in life seems quite so orderly, however. Some people never get past their own feelings of anger and bitterness. Others seem to live in a perpetual state of grace and total acceptance (though in the interest of disclosure, I haven’t yet met anyone that fits that description). Life is an ongoing process, and I feel blessed– even in spite of it all.

Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear…
Juliet: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche

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Name Brand Placebo

by Seraphine Khorana on February 10th, 2010
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Name Brand Placebo

Placebos are scientifically shown to be effective 40% of the time against pain and depression. However, I haven’t found any studies that specifically compare the beneficial effects of a “name brand” Placebo versus a generic sugar pill. I suspect that this is one case where the name brand drug would be more effective than the generic version, despite both having the same “active ingredient.” Yes, I will accept a research grant to prove the point.

Reportedly, patients have even become “addicted” to placebos: According to an Internet paper by Ben Z. Krentzman, M.D., one patient ingested 10,000 placebo units in one year; another had a compulsive desire to take placebo tablets, tended to increase the “dose,” couldn’t stop taking the “medicine” without psychiatric help, and suffered “abstinence syndrome” when deprived of it—classic characteristics of drug addiction.
Quotation from Kenneth E. Legins, Is Prescribing Placebos Ethical?, American Council on Science and Health

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Eat Chocolate Responsibly

by Seraphine Khorana on July 31st, 2009
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Eat Chocolate Responsibly

My name is Sera, and I’m a chocoholic.

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Quotation from Dave Barry

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Too Busy Exercising My Brain

by Seraphine Khorana on June 16th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Too Busy Exercising My Brain

Keeping hydrated is crucial to one’s health, because getting up to pee is the only exercise some people get while using the computer. But if you find yourself sitting in wetness, turn the computer off and get help immediately. You’re addicted.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,
Take them, and give me my childhood again!
Poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen, Rock Me to Sleep

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Love Comes with a Warning Label

by Seraphine Khorana on June 12th, 2009
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Love Comes with a Warning Label

Caution: Love may be hazardous to your health. It can cause headaches, dizzinesss, weakness, nausea, vertigo and stomach aches. Love is highly addictive; Studies have shown that Love can be harder to quit than heroin or cocaine. Your children are twice as likely to Love if you do.

Cigarettes sold in Canada must display warnings which take up 50% of the principal display space. (Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada)

Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Quotation from Anna Magnani

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Tough Love/Dose of a Necessary Habit

by Seraphine Khorana on April 13th, 2009
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Tough Love/Dose of a Necessary Habit

Major banks are buying more of the toxic assets that have gotten them in trouble. Normally, I don’t care how other people invest their money, but it’s frightening that these banks are using taxpayers money to “double down” on losing bets while raising the interest rates and fees charged to their customers.

Bailed-Out Banks Eye Toxic Asset Buys (Financial Times)
Bailed-Out Banks Face Probe Over Fee Hikes (The Australian News) “Unhappy customers can cancel their accounts.”

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