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[garjones]

Yeah, I do this most days too. I always get off the bus on the way home and walk 10 minutes to a bus stop further up the road. I'm going to start running again in the new year - I always find that's a great unwinder too.

Yes it's the fight or flight reflex which is often part of what makes us nervous or anxious. In the old days we'd punch someone or run away when feeling threatened or uncomfortable, nowadays the punching option would likely end up in a jail sentence so go for a run.

[Christian U]

Yeah, physical exertion is apparently a good strategy for anxiety attacks and the like, because of the whole flight-or-fight thing.

[Mike]

There's a definite part of me that thrives under stress; I tend to go into automatic pilot to a degree in high adrenaline critical situations, so what needs done gets done quickly, confidently and competently.

Dealing with stress afterwards depends very much on what it is, and coping mechanisms are very personal things. I've ran the gamut at one time or another.

[Christian U]

There's a definite part of me that thrives under stress; I tend to go into automatic pilot to a degree in high adrenaline critical situations, so what needs done gets done quickly, confidently and competently.

I have phases - usually towards the end of a school year - in which work just keeps piling up on me and I'm juggling so many things at the same time that I can't really keep an overview of it, there's a billion things to think of and the days get increasingly hectic and a week has like sixty or more hours of work (and part of that is usually something like staging a play (or a theatre night at the school with about a hundred people involved), which brings its own kind of added pressure). Thing is, I really enjoy that - in those times, I think "Okay, this is what being a workaholic is like". It's a bit of a rush, really. Of course, this only lasts a few weeks and then I'm into the holidays; if I had to keep that up for longer, I'd probably just break down.

[Ogul]

There's a definite part of me that thrives under stress; I tend to go into automatic pilot to a degree in high adrenaline critical situations, so what needs done gets done quickly, confidently and competently.

Yeah, normally I can be a bit sluggish and easily distracted and procrastinating, but when I have a tight deadline or an unfolding situation that needs immediate attention, I just sort of work the problem, really snappy and deliberate and single focused and non-stop until it's resolved.

[garjones]

Yeah, normally I can be a bit sluggish and easily distracted and procrastinating, but when I have a tight deadline or an unfolding situation that needs immediate attention, I just sort of work the problem, really snappy and deliberate and single focused and non-stop until it's resolved.

I think the two are often related, that pretty much describes me too. I've always worked under multiple deadlines and a lot of pressure and when that was removed from me couple of years ago I found myself stagnating, I wasn't performing well at all, so asked my boss to load me with work.

You know those Image guys that sold 3 comics in a month and then could never meet a deadline again? I think I'd probably be the same.

[Russell H]

I saw the specialist today. I'm now on suppositories twice a day instead of once, I'm back to appointments every three months instead of every six months, and I've got to go back in about 4 weeks to have another camera up the bum.

Thankfully it's a flexi-sigmoidoscopy rather than a colonoscopy, so no massive evacuation beforehand - just a day on liquids.

[Mike]

This piece landed in my inbox this evening; it summarises the arguments against chiropractic fairly well:

It is the author’s position that chiropractic is an indefensible profession. It is inherently unscientific. The supposed cause of disease, subluxations, do not exist. And the scientific evidence overwhelmingly finds that spinal manipulation is dangerous and ineffective for practically every application.

[Steve Sensible]

This could equally well have gone in the random thread but, oh well. Does anyone else have/get synesthesia? I still find the best way to describe music is with colours, but it draws some odd looks from people.

[Christian U]

Not without LSD.

[garjones]

[David Meadows]

I have very weak nails. I mean, they break and shred at the slightest provocation. I never need to cut them because they break before they get that long.

This week, I have a full set of long, unbroken nails, longer and stronger than I have ever known them.

I started taking some new vitamin supplements at Christmas, and I can only assume that something in them has strengthened my nails -- there's no other cause that I can think of. Presumably I have been deficient in something my whole life and I've now fixed it. All I need to do now is work out which of the supplements has done it.


Ok, as health issues go it's not a very significant one, but I have very few interesting health problems

[garjones]

Vitamin B and B12 are ones that strengthen nails, so taht's probably what the supplement has helped with.

[brucegray666]

Entries to the Baker Hughes 10k in Aberdeen open tomorrow morning. Going to enter it again and hopefully beat my time from last year. My running has been put on the back burner for a bit as of late - having an event to aim for is just what I need to get me back in "the zone" again.

[Russell H]

Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (less intrusive bum camera than last year) on Monday, so special diet all weekend.

No veg, no brown bread, no oatcakes, no fruit. Just white bread, white rice, lean meat, mashed potato...

Tomorrow I get a solid breakfast, then 24 hours of just clear liquids. Water, fruit juice, fruit squash, clear soups and broths, clear jelly and (bizarrely) ice cream.

[Russell H]

And we're into the liquid only diet portion of the weekend. Fun.

[Arjan Dirkse]

And we're into the liquid only diet portion of the weekend. Fun.

Can you still have tea? Then you should be alright...

Good luck, dude.

[brucegray666]

That sounds pretty rough Russell and kind of puts my cold thing into perspective. Phlegm oozing freely from every hole in my face and my cough is rotating between the chesty heaving of fluids and the dry ticklishness of nothing. Also feeling continually run down too coupled with he sore throat and ears mean that all in all it's been a miserable few days. Wasn't helped by the fact the services manager at work basically told me that I have to come into work on Monday (didn't say in so many words but language and tone of voice used in the phone call got the message across crystal clear).

[Russell H]

Can you still have tea? Then you should be alright...

The advice given about tea is contradictory, so I've gone without.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Good luck, Russell.