Trembling
Why do I shake after a stressful situation?
Shaking or trembling, which comes from the limbic brain (the part of the brain that holds emotions), sends a signal that the danger has passed and that the fight-or-flight system can turn off. They are literally finishing the nervous system response to release the traumatic experience from the body.23 Oct 2019
https://www.psychologytoday.com › …
My first news letter
Posted on July 31, 2017
Dear All
Well, I don’t write a letter very often, but after finding a replica of my old pen on E bay I decided to do a Round Robin.
First of all, none of my children have got into Oxford or Cambridge nor have my grandchildren.They are all on the dim side but that is how I like them.I think IQ is very over rated and as mine is 65 when tested you realise I am a mere imbecile and so my ten children take after me.
They all got degrees from places I’d never heard of like Chester, Bolton, Ormskirk, and Hendon.However, as I once lost a job offer from a well known university because I wore an engagement ring I kind of thought being a low flyer might be better.
My brother is very nice.He is changed very much since we were adolescents when he was too put it mildly a pain.He has now told me I am in the top 1% of intelligence in the world.Imagine 99% of the world’s population has an IQ of 64 or less.Don’t expect an imbecile to explain that
I can believe it about our delightful politicians, Theresa Paybum and Horace Yawnsome and their ilk.
My children have done well.One is a violinist in Berlin.As I never go there I cannot be sure if she is lying but she does speak good German or for all I know it might be Yiddish as my great aunt was familiar with that old tongue.Perhaps my daughter is really playing the Jewish harp in a liberal Synagogue.And believe me, it would have to be very liberal to let that flame haired temptress near any man. married or single Is it her fault she is so attractive?After all, she is my daughter and blew dry every hair daily as a teen
My eldest son had to miss an exam before he was accepted at Ormskirk Dental School.You see with 21 GCSE’s grade A star they wanted him to go to Cambridge but he knew his own limits He hates formality
.He preferred being near the great Nature Reserves of the estuary of the Mersey and Nature and its exploration has kept him busy.
Why he even spends whole days in the Mersey Tunnel.He said he wants to found the Universiy of New Brighton but he is still in the tunnel.I said I’d buy him a motorbike but he prefers walking everywhere and camping on the verges of the road maybe giving relief to a few virgins en passant
Being a virgin nowadays is very hard socially.But as a Spanish waiter once said to me ” One virgin is very hard to find” Maybe two are easier…I’m an embecile. so I can’t say
My second daughter is married and lives in Poole. She often walks around the Isle of Purbeck with the triplets in her back pack.How her husband stands her I cannot get.She is lazy and unable to cook even frozen chips.However, the babies are still on the breast and there is a McDonald’s nearby.Her Ph.D was on “Cats in Modern Physics”.She had a wonderful tutor at Wigan University.Why, he married her! Then he got a job in Bournemouth. which is by the sea!She always was lucky.Apart from givinh birth to three boys all at once,if you see what I mean.
How she snagged him I do not know as she has little hair and wears thick glasses but her thesis was the first of its kind.Now everyone is doing animals in abstract mathematics.Or going to Art School to paint like an animal!With your paws!
Well, it’s time for me to warm my frozen pizza on the coal fire so I’ll leave the rest for next time.Don’t take an IQ test.I used to think I was quite bright before.
Au revoir
Katy Krispberger {Siren]
If you are retired and able to walk about you could visit your public library more than once a week and you can read the newspapers the Guardian and the Times. You can also read the Guardian free online the Guardian is £2.50 per day and at the weekend this is £3.50 a day I think that comes to £19.50 a week which is £80 per 4 weeks
0r £1040;a year is my mental arithmetic is correct
That is quite a lot of money so if you are are fearing ⁵ a problem as a food prices increase and the cost of heating your house or flat rises dramatically have a look at your subscriptions or or the bills from your newsagent
Cancelling your newspaper could help you you to pay for your gas and electricity although I know that those people in that position I’ve probably already stop buying newspapers
You can also read magazines in the library although if everyone starts doing this
There might be a queue in the library.
while you are in the library you will get warm because public buildings are usually quite hot and also you can make use of the toilet thus saving on your own water bill If
If your water bill is very high consider letting your children pass water in the garden.
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T{here is a problem though they need to know that you can’t urinate in public unless you are absolutely desperate. Since public toilets have been closed if there’s a problem for some people to even go out. Perhaps we ought to urinate in public places to show the government what it’s like living in this society.
and also we must remember if we stay out a long time in the town that will will be tempted to have coffee every day and and coffee is no longer cheap.
But it is pleasant to have coffee out so we will have to decide how many times a week we can have it. Inviting a friend to join us once a week could make it into a social occasion rather than j having a meal out so it would be saving money in a way because affording food out is going to be very hard for many families and individuals in the coming winter.
What is vital for one person may not matter to another. I know I read the Guardian online and save money like that.
how would you to save money ?
there’s not a lot that’s essential especially in clothimg once we have acquired a winter coat and a raincoat, a decent pair of shoes a pair of trousers and jeans and a skirt maybe a few tops. I like clothes but I tried to buy expensive clothes in a sale so I don’t need any though no I might buy scarf.
I like knittimg but the wool is really expensive. I decided I couldn’t do it much.
it’s not easy for everyone to afford and that is why why many people buy from very cheap shops and then if it wears out they get a new one. That is not very good for the Earth.
I lived for 7 years on a student grant does it seem ok then because my family was poor so I know that you can live on much less money but at that time it was the electric meter with the pound coin that stole my money
Waking up in the morning was cruel in the winter but on the other hand there was a church nearby with a wonderful jumble sale and so I acquired a few good things that way.
it will be quite hard for other people to go back to go back to such a lifestyle it will help us to empathise with the poor
I wore the same woollen skirt in the winter all those years.
If you believe the poor are lazy look government statistics in the library or on your computer.
not everyone can become a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher. And if some people rise other people must fall unless it economy is it’s expandinanyone can be the Prime Minister.,,.. why do we have such bad ones
and many of the members of Parliament have a very little wisdom or true intelligence and understanding what it is like to be poor.
I am very angry the government decided to only give child benefit for 2 children because it will increase the number of abortions take place.
whatever the reasonThat is legal but is it a good thing if the parents have a good relationship and want to have three children even though they are shortnof money is it right to force into abortion?
Even a wanted abortion is no fun.
And sex is fun and free if you have a partner.
Some peopl have sex with lots of other people like it is said President John f Kennedy did
Especially better than watching Neighbours on the television every night
And if the child is born it is a child that will suffer from the poverty of the family as a whole. Just cause we all want to pay less income tax even if it means that some women will have abortions when they didn’t really want to. This might affect their mental health and there’s already a very long waiting list for therapy or to see a psychiatrist. It seems this government will stop at nothing to lower income tax
Sadly there is no incentive for the the rich to find out what it is like living on a very low income. That should be done in school. And maybe there was stop moaning about paying tax
Why is it only being talked about now when the middle class fair they won’t be able to use central heating when for many years the poorer have struggled.
it seems to imply t he e poor don’t matter!
And that is how they feel.
I think a lot of the people in the government are very egocentric.
and some of them are psychopaths.
oh I think I will leave it there.
Please don’t keep up with the Joneses
Don’t buy 11 new cars
One is more than sufficient too many emissions
Will destroy the world faster by far
Compare yourself just to the humble.
Though stables are in short supply.
if Mary was satisfied we should be gratified
Never say, never say die.
we can survive a grave crisis
We must not drown in despair.
Find your good humour.
Not later but sooner.
We will all help each other to care
It is not a human right she have a foreign holiday every year
It is not a human right to have central heating
Although for older people and babies it might be wise to have it
If you can afford it and generally speaking life is pleasanter if you can keep your house warm but when you look at the living conditions of people all over the world many people are suffering from heat or cold.
People are still starving in a lot of countries
Poverty is relative and children here growing up up.in poverty suffer when they can’t have iPads or or computers and they cannot have new school uniforms or go on field trips.
So I would not dare to say to the poorl that they are better off than they would be iqin India.
When my sister was doing a level biology she didn’t even tell Mym about the field trips
But when she went to university she was on a grant s so she was able to go on the field trips and And she got a good degree.
The sky is stark ,the air is cool and still
The black cat’s run,the birds unflowed all day
I sit alone and with some totty pray
Ye cast o’ foolish thoughts, you raped my will.
We’ve all enraged the bureaucratic mills
Oh frigid purse, I never ought to pay!
The sky ‘s a’spark,the air is warm and shrill
The saturnine demoted found their way
With this feathered pounce, my sample quill,
I cite the cheque and date it for next May.
Oh,tit for tat, the tiger’s bed ‘s astray.
And now all’re nettled by a harlot’s will
The sky ‘s a shark, the air is sharper still.
Teacher’s mental health suffers due to overwork the newspapers say.
Does that imply that if you are mentally healthy you can work vast numbers if hours a week and stay up half the night doing preparation you can stay up the whole night and then teach all day and then you will really mental healthty won’t you
In other words people are not mentally ill if they can’t cope with a huge workload. Perhaps they are over conscientious and should simply not prepare lessons And not help children who are suffering from the effects of the lockdowns moreover they could spend less time preparing for parent teacher meetings and I know this would have a very bad effect on the children. This phrase mental health is being overused.I
It is the environment that is sick not the people working there
Would you say garment workers in Asia are mentally ill they are exhausted Angeanxious and worried with the terrible conditions that they have to work in for very low pay?
Mental health is not a condition that enable us to be overworked and made use of
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/well/mind/stress-money-relationships.html
The eye is not a camera taking shots
Our mind affects the aspect we perceive
And what it feels important it allots
Gives grace or hatred ,causes us to grieve.
When we are afraid ,we see the worst
We see disgrace or ruin as our fate
As if our self for horror has a thirst
So all the little details we collate
Yet when we love we see before us joy
The flowers sing, the birds dance in the air
We see no evil nor with hatred toy
All aspects of our world appear more fair.
We see not what is there,we see our self
To learn ,we must employ our own mind’s wealth
Hello hello she moans and then she screams
She wants the nurse to come she’s had bad dreams
She overdoes the calling ,makes them mad.
She wants to see her mother or her dad.
But now she’s 94 nobody’s left
She still looks from South to East to West.
Let’s go home she whispers to herself.
Oh,where is home when she has little wealth?
The husband’s dead her daughter sadly too.
T1he Carers have no time, what can she do ?
She thinks another lady fancies men
she envies her then envies her again
What about the man who barks and quacks?
What pointed grief what torture rushes back?
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These modern lepers lack Lord Jesus touch
The old the blind the deaf no longer rich.
Dementia is an illness cruelly taxed.
They have to sell their houses that’s a fact.
If you’re ill where is the NHS?
Old and weak be frightened, know the rest
Pain is a flooded river running through my house
Pain is a storm that blows off my roof
Pain is a bite from an invisible lion
Pain makes a wound which never heals
but you don’t have to pick it and rip your own flesh
Pailn brings forth children
If it’s a bullet it’s death
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I was thinking about pain I have met several people who have chronic pain and it causes them to change their way of life
lThen I read the language that we use to talk about pain has a big affect on our experience of the pain. If we say if its unfair that we have chronic pain
that tends to make it seem worse.What meaning can we give to fairness ?
Why do we think that the world is fair?
Someone I know lost his belief in God because his best friend and his wife both had cancer and his best friend has died
Millions of people died in the Holocaust and Jewish people certainly stop believing in God.
Do we at some level expect there to help those we love alive?
It’s very painful to learn that it’s not only people far away from us who are suffering but people near us people ,we love
So when one or two people close to you become ill you become very distressed and you want to focus your anger onto something and I suppose that God if smeone that you could choose to be angry with.
I myself have been into churches to tell God I hated him after a suicide I hated him affected
When you get older you realise that a lot of people commit suicide and more men than women and that the kind of society we live in or the kind of world we live in is not always one that will benefit the people living in it especially the poor and that’s not the fault of God? I’m using God in a very simple way. We feel that someone is in charge but God may have created the world but I don’t think he’s involved in all the everyday decisions that we make all that the government makes. I’m absolutely certain that God is not involved in all those decisions except through a few people there are who are trying 2 to perceive things well l&d to curb the hatred of their enemies.
we don’t like to feel that the world and also ourselves are subject to meaningless random accidents. That’s why even the suffering that many Christians endured did not make them lose their face because they believe in God and and knowing that they will go to heaven if they were executed gave are meaning to their lifehowever painful it might be lack of meaning is worse than physical suffering for many people.
so pain happens Mayve arthritis runs in your family so you’re not so surprised when you get it and it does seem wrong when you reach the point when you can’t walk or or do a lot of activities.
you may have to take up new activities.
mathematics is a very good painkiller for both mental pain and physical pain.
You could do it Open University course in mathemati is that does not appeal to you you what about a creative writing course?
You could make cakes
I am reading an article in the times about heating costs and it seems that people with a large family could be spending a quarter of the monthly income on heating.
For smaller families it will be 20% or 1/5 of their income.
Of course when I was growing up we do not have central heating and most rooms didn’t have any heating at all.
Fire in the living room and and later my mother had a coal fire and fireplace built in the kitchen.
In the bedrooms there were fireplacesbut the only time I’m I saw a fire in the tiny fireplace was when my father was in his last year of life
Simply could not afford to use the coal
And if we wanted to use the toilet we had to go outside.
Old people keep a chamber pot under the bed if I doubt very much whether anybody nowadays would be willing to do that but it’s too expensive to have your house extended to build more bathrooms or downstairs toilet rooms.
People have borrowed money for extension and have got larger home and we are are used to keeping them warm in the winter
Using a vessel how to empty your bladder into was certainly a lot cheaper but it was hell going outside to the lavatory when it was snowing and my mother used to keep a little lamp out thereto stop it freezing up
When I was very small we did not have a toilet that flushed we had I suppose you might call a privy.
If you look down you can see the sewer
One might imagine that it would frighten children but my mother tells me that I was toilet trained and could speak before I was 1 year old.
Unfortunately I could not walk down the backyard when I was 10 months old so I was allowed to use a potty.
My older brothers were very nice. The kindly used to empty the potty over my head and I can remember that.
To help me to dry out set my hair on fire with a box of matches and know that I’m old my hair has got thinner and the part that they’re burnt looks like I’m going bald there.
No hairdresser used to mention it to it except one man who pointed to it and said pity about this isn’t it. But my hair is so thick and beautiful it didn’t really worry about
What did make me anxious was that they continued for some years to try to harm me
Even trying to make me fall out of a boat into a millpond
Oh normal behaviour for children I think
To go back to the heating question this is not the answer generally but if you wear more clothes such as wool vests and thermal leggings with wool socks it can certainly make you more comfortable but if your health does not permit you to walkc about very much because of arthritis or heart trouble or breathing difficulties it really isn’t much of a substitution for heating in a room.
death rates will rise next Winter because of that problem old people or sick people breathing in cold air is not good for us.
Sometimes people try to live in one room if they have some kind of bed or sofa bed and then just keep that one room is hot.
If you can’t afford to fill your tank with hot water because you can’t afford to put your boiler on we used to boil water in a kettle and get washed in the kitchen sink but obviously you can’t wash very much of your body in the kitchen when other people might be coming in and out so we had to have a tin bath in front of the fire and my brothers are not there are.
I knew nothing else and it was cosy by the fire
We were not as clean as people are expected to be today.
And also nowadays people expect to have a smartphone and a tablet or a laptop at least.
You need this because this is how the government the hospital the doctor etc if in touch with us during this pandemic and I think this will continue into the future.All you can do if find a cheap provider for your phone.
See Martin Lewis money expert.
Suzette Haden Elgin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzette_Haden_Elgin
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Governments want to shut down for Christmas.
To a Hindu it’s none of my business.
But Truss follows Jesus.
If only to tease us.
She will take everyone left to the cleaners
For the poor there are bills that will bankrupt
They can’t even find an NHS dentist
Advice would you give
You think you know how to live.
You’ve never held the eye of the tempest
Mathematics is often a nemesis
Whatever does it mean for pretences?
Life is so complex
Don’t mention the Tampax
We bleed without going to the dentist
Some people prefer short haired horses.
Why study Chinese for its coarseness?
We don’t know ourselves
No Santa Claus elves
You don’t even see women in corsets.
I once had a doctor called Joseph
Who was a distant relation of Moses
He was the wisest we had
But often looked sad
You remember his family was Jesus.
An Icy hands took hold of my poor heart
As if from something good I would soon part.
My neighbour sees the writing on the wall
Fears she has dementia is appalled
She sees words on the ceiling telling her
She will die and such bad thoughts will scare
She thinks I will not see her any more
Her fear comes out deluded and mishaped
She is is racked by love and then by hate
If you know that you are near the end.
Confide this anguish to your nearest friends
I want to see you one more time
I would endure that pain of loss again
Yes, I still am with you in my dreams
I’d like to know your thoughts before you died
You concentrated,focussed, that was playi
I have longed to see you one more time
I felt it was a Play we were inside
Then we’d come back home, where we have lain
We are still companions in my dreams
What of love is captured in a rhyme?
So much so called “poetry” seems inane
I still wish to see you one more time
Love is not a concept of the mind
qI need your comfort but I need in vain
We are still companions in my dreams
Now I walk alone on new terrain
I do not suffer torture, am not blamed.
I have longed to see you one
Stan was feeling somewhat glum,nay even despairing,on Monday morning.
Mary had gone to work on her new folding 6 gear bicycle with own basket and an extra basket from Wells-next -the- Sea 1995
[the wicker basket now somewhat grey in hue.]
He was left at home sorting out all his art work and materials as well as doing the baking,cooking and bathing Emile,the delightful yet trying male cat.
Sunk in dark misery,Stan sat in an old uncomfortable chair in the darkest part of the room, while Emile snored on the rug by the bright French windows.Stan went through all the possible reasons for his state of mind.Was he guiltyabout his flings with his alluring next door neighbour Annie?
Could it be his failure to toilet train Emile? Or his omitting to carry out the penance given by Father Brown after Stan confessed to stealing sweets on the way to Confession in 1956?
The longer Stan brooded the more reasons he found for his depression.
He could hardly get up to make a cup of coffee ..even instant seemed too much trouble.Would he even clean his teeth which somehow he’d failed to do?
The doorbell rang… it was a new cord for his laptop as Emile had been chewing the current one ,and 29 books in a sack from Amazon which his wife must have ordered,as he had no recollection of any such foolish spending.How would they pay the bill on the credit card? he ruminated.
Later in the day.Annie peered through the window.She tapped on the glass with her well manicured blue finger nails.Let me in she cried.
I’m too tired for any hanky panky he murmured lovingly as he ran his fingers through her thick red tresses.What is this delightful perfume,beloved,he questioned her.
It’s Poison! she replied.Oh no,sorry it’s Iris and Jasmine Eau de toilette from the Bodyshop.
Despite his lowly sunken state Stan loved this perfume.He sniffed rabidly at her well rounded form.Well,shall we have some tea,she enquired.
Stan sat there hand on chest.I’ve been feeling a little gloomy,he muttered.She peered at him.You look terribly pale,Stan.Where’s your angina spray?I can’t recall,he said.Oh,here it is in my vest.
What a strange place to keep it,she responded.
Mary made pockets for all my vests.at one time you could buy vests with pockets
She’s good at sewing despite being so clever.In fact she loves doing things with her hands.
Annie got the GNT spray out and handed it to him.Have you got a pain?
Well,yes,now you mention it,I do,he replied verbosely.
Well,in the name of God, use the bloody thing,she whispered endearingly into his left ear.
He opened his mouth,raised his tongue and with his hand resting lightly on his chin he pressed the button with his forefinger.
His head began to throb.
Annie appeared with a cup of Earl Grey tea and a biscuit.Why,you look a little better.Do you need another dose?
No,I feel much better now.I’ve had it before.He drank the tea but didn’t eat the biscuit which he threw out later in crumbs for the field mice in the shed.
His spirits began to rise.Why did he always forget that physical ailments can worsen a mood?He still felt a trifle glum but nothing a meringue wouldn’t put right.
OK,what shall I make for Mary’s supper? he enquired.
You sit there in the window and I’ll just make my special spaghetti,Annie replied gaily,as long as I can stay too.
Yes,I’ll open some red wine he said youthfully,and we can have fried apples and bananas for pudding with non fat Greek yoghurt.
What a wise choice she murmured gently into his ear………that will use up some of the newly picked apples,the bananas were from Lidl’s as usual.
Well,Stan you look better.said Mary happily,You’ve been pale all weekend.Was it Annie who cheered you up,not to put too fine a point on it?
Actually it was nitroglycerine,he said roguishly,but Annie made me use it.
But for us women you’d be dead,she replied equably.
But for you delightful creatures I wouldn’t be here at all,he moaned ecstatically.
Now then Stan,control yourself she urged,After all we have a visitor,Annie!
What a hoot,he thought as he twisted spaghetti round his fork in a careless manner splashing tomato sauce all over his new green acrylicjumper.
Thank the Lord for washing machines,Mary said.
I didn’t know Jesus invented them,Annie said with a tone of mild sarcasm but no-one bothered to reply.
As told by Emile to the local paper.
And believed by all of us.
Ray Kleers cat’s in parquet
Did Jesus have a hot temper?
I feel so gay, it is natural
They are waiting for our partitions.
Say but the word and my sole shall be heeled.
Guarded the angels from seven acolytes
Hail glorious St Hat Trick.
Lord, it’s hearsay.
Lord, I’m the worser
Forgive all dear trespassers.
Blessed is the root of thy broom.
Pay for us now and the whore at our death.
I believe in none ,God.
The communion of taints.
But Joseph had a bee.
Jesus wants me for his bathroom.
The Ten Demanding Torments are here.
Have you paid your wrecks yet?
For all the saints who laboured at their texts
For all the painted ghosts
Remember man, thy tart is bust
Ash to ash,dust not the frost
Forgive us an hour’s trespassing and we shall be over the moon
Please do as you would have fun by
I am God”s losing person
Satanic Curse.
Pray,Father,give me your venom
Through my vault,through my thieving vault
I heard a bill fall twide.
Why are you queer,Nehemia? Sorry, why are you dear?
Jeremiah hid in a wave.He couldn’t fund a whale.
God sent a form and a bad temper, but the Word was not on the Form
She was like a centipede married to a mouse.What a feat!
No ro.om for mourning: he’s gone out
Into the noisy glen, or stands between the stones
Of the gaunt ridge, or you’ll hear his shout
Rolling among the screes, he being a boy again.
He’ll never fail nor die
And if they laid his bones
In the wet vaults or iron sarcophagi
Of fame, he’d rise at the first summer rain
And stride across the hills to seek
His rest among the broken lands and clouds.
He was a stormy day, a granite peak
Spearing the sky; and look, about its base
Words flowing like crocuses in the hanging woods,
Blank though the dalehead and the bony face.
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Greek mythology, Hades is both the land of the dead and the god who rules there. Hades the god (who the Greeks also called Pluto) is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, who rule the skies and the seas. The realm called Hades, where he rules with his wife Persephone, is the region under the earth, full of mineral wealth and fertility and home to dead souls. Hades today is sometimes used as a polite term for Hell (“It’s hotter than Hades in here!”).
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