Tory Collier
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@Tooory
| Return to Practice nurse | Actual Mermaid | AuDHDer | Capricorn | Wester | Advocate | CPTSD Survivor | Torys and TERFs; begone | Cha(complaintly)v | she/her |
some of you like ‘ew depressed people don’t shower everyday?’ & i remember in the depths of my depression i couldn’t get myself to stand up & i don’t mean that metaphorically i mean i didn’t have the will to live so i could stand i was just lying in bed for days waiting to die
Front page of the Sunday Times....
I think most chronically ill people would recover if they just spent all day in the sun instead of all day inside. It’s worth a try at least.
Is aging accelerating in some folks? Without a doubt. It’s the first thing I have noticed. I study aging (mostly cognitive aging but I’ve also dabbled in cardiovascular, sensory & vocal aging). If you didn’t pick up on the sensory changes & impaired communication such as coarseness & variability in others’ voices, you may have hearing loss or tinnitus yourself (conditions that also correspond with aging & Covid). You may also be distracted by their general slowness or the memory encoding, retention & retrieval problems. Connecting dots for others has become a full-time job. Vestibular functioning & mobility also decline with age-related changes in cognitive-motor skills. This means more frequent falls and perhaps earlier onset of having your first bad fall. I’m not going to discuss physical attributes other than to say some have self-claimed obvious signs whereas I personally feel acquiring this level of evidence is unnecessary. It’s akin to a phrase I heard recently c/o @Stanzupforit . In short, no one needs ‘to be kicked while they’re drowning.’
