Only Jesus Christ

Could be called upon

To care for us

With no pay

And even then

We would still have killed him one day.

We can’t ask that human beings should be saints

Unless we start with ourselves.

What a picture that paints

If teaching is a vocation an I say it ain’t

Who will get the money you save

When I did it for nothing.

My retina was tortured into a million pieces

I’m no saviourette now

They were laughing all the way to the bank.

Whike I alone in my kayak sank.

This is no way to run a bank

The discontent of Britons turns to hate.

It’s hell for many, for others it’s too late.

No eggs for children’s meals, no milk and cheese.

Worn out nurses see their pay decrease.

The paramedics angered by misuse

Are met at times with physical abuse

Imagination wilts is crucified.

Without an ambulance some people die

What Carers do for love cannot be asked

Workers must be paid for arduous tasks

If if people die this day who is to blame?

The government must answer this complaint

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-treatment-shifts-away-from-fixing-the-condition/

https://psychcentral.com/anxiety/when-youre-deeply-ashamed-of-your-anxiety

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Ashamed of Your Anxiety? 6 Ways to Lean into and Move Through It

Medically reviewed by N. Simay Gökbayrak, PhD — By Kimberly Drake — Updated on September 29, 2021

• Shame with anxiety
• I.d. type of anxiety
• Treatment changes?
• Understanding shame
• Anxiety triggers
• Name it, let it go
• Animate your inner critic
• Summary

Feeling ashamed about anxiety is common, but there are ways to cope when feelings of humiliation creep up.

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If you experience anxiety, you may feel easily embarrassed at anxious manifestations — what you say, or what you do. Know first that you’re not alone. Anxiety in itself is not a condition but a natural biological process. However, persistent anxiety may turn into a condition with more prevalent symptoms, and you can manage it with tools and support.

Perhaps you feel mortified after you’ve had a panic attack in public or when you cancel plans with friends at the last minute because of social anxiety.

Shame and anxiety don’t have to bog you down. There are ways to cope.

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The intersection of shame and anxiety

Anxiety can cause more than just uncomfortable physical symptoms. It can also bring out unpleasant emotions such as guilt or extreme embarrassment.

An episode of anxiety or panic could lead to negative self-talk and worry about it happening again. This may exacerbate anxiety symptoms which can then spiral into an anxiety-shame cycle.

If you’re feeling this way, you may wonder: How do I deal with anxiety and shame?

We have had people reading here from Russia Ukraine China etc . I regret that our politicians and leaders can’t talk to each other so easily.

I suppose the Russian viewers might be looking at the blog in the hope of making some useful information but there is nothing useful in this blog about intelligence services, the army etc

But if any other country like Russia wants to know what’s going on in Britain they only have to look at at the fact that we have had 3 prime ministers this year to know what’s going on here and how the people are hungry and cold and cannot get to the hospital quickly with broken bones or strokes and that despite this since we have the pandemic the rich even richer than they were before Somewhere deep down they know they are doing something bad.

Winter is icummen in,
Lhude sing Goddamm,
Raineth drop and staineth slop
And how the wind doth ramm!
Sing: Goddamm.
Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
An ague hath my ham.
Freezeth river, turneth liver
Damn you, sing: Goddamm.
Goddamm, Goddamm, tis why I am,
Goddamm.
So ‘gainst the winter’s balm
Sing Goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm
Sing Goddamm, sing Goddamm,
DAMM.

Ezra Pound

Tags: seasons, time, winter

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/17/virginia-woolf-self-knowledge/

Challenging the dangerous allure of being perfectly understood and held in perfect sympathy — by others, or by ourselves — she writes:

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you — is all an illusion.

In a sentiment the poet May Sarton — who was half in love with Woolf — would echo in her abiding insistence on solitude as the seedbed of self-discovery, Woolf adds:

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds’ feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable

What is the world if full of prayer

We have no rhymes to humour bear?

What is a war to fight and bear

When with Brexit we don’t care

What is love the truth is plain

Politicians are insane

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