‹ chat statusThis post is more of a random thought which has been going around my head for a couple of hours, normaly things like this would have never have bothered me but it did!
A couple of months ago I was going through a bad patch in life, nothing made sense, I was stressed daily and time wasn't on my side. I happend upon a magazine in my shop, It was called 'psychologies'. It was an article on the front cover that made me buy it, the title to one of the stories was 'Take your life off hold - more freedom more choice and more time'. It seemed to have me sucked in enough to buy it. But... I didn't get round to reading it. I never had the time or the frame of mind to deal with myself long enough to read it and the magazine got lost in the volumes of un-read litterature in my bedside drawer!
Time and life passed by and I seemed to be getting worse, panic attacks were taking over my life and to save me from the loony bin (which wasn't a realy a bad idea) I went to the doctor and confessed all my sins. He explained that I was overworked to the point of a breakdown and gave me medication to controll the panic and anxiety attacks; he put me back on track and I have never felt so good.
Well since I started getting back on top of everything here I decided to de-clutter every room of the house including that beside drawer and found that magazine again. I sat in my bedroom earlier and read through it. It focusses on self inner powers and healing, tips on relaxing and lots of life coaching; I even took part in one of the quizes which analyzes how well we manage our time, I answered truthfully and proceeded to the next page to find out the answers. The answers which we comonlly used to seeing are the type - ya know 'if you answered mostly 'a's, 'b's, 'c's etc, but in this case they came in the form of mostly 'triangles, squares, circles and squiggly lines' - that made me laugh lol. Go figure she said scratching her head :)) :P. A couple of months ago I wouldn't have even have picked up on the irony there lol. Anyway, aparently I manage my time perfectly.
Still flicking through and finding out the benefits of 'oxygen' She giggles again:P I kept noticing these adverts for health therapy sessions, natures medicinces and gawd knows what else, but the prices were phenominal. From a "cured" of lifes anxietys point of view, I felt that these adverts are a bit harsh, since alot of peoples worries stem from finance difficulties - was this magazine meant for ridicolously wealthy people? becasue I could'nt see it doing much good for people with a smaller purse string, in fact I think they would have got half way through and probably felt like there was no hope for them, I know I would have. By the way not forgeting that by now people like me back 2 months ago would by now be hanging my head out of the window getting my free self therapy from inhaling 250.000 cubic feet of oxygen through my body!!!
But what really annoyed me about the whole book was a sentence on the back page saying that the magazine cannot 'vouch' for therapists or therapies! I'm like Huh!
They make you read the damn magazine, get you feeling a little better and with more optimism they kick you in the teeth and tell you basically what you read was a pile of crap!!!
Phew - Thank gawd I went to the doctor. That Magazine is in the bin now.
posted on July 6, 2008 5:18 PM ()
We've all been sucked in from time to time. Luckily you got it together.
Been there, done that
Laurie
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