Posted by Estella on July 31, 2006, at 20:58:29
In reply to Re: Giving up cigarettes, posted by Declan on July 31, 2006, at 14:32:41
I like the cold dry air too. Or at least I much prefer it to warmer damper air. I think I've got bronchitus again. Or some kind of throat infection / irritation at any rate. I wonder if cutting down so much has meant that it got to moving around... Or maybe I'm just getting run down again. I was sick (in the same way) just a few weeks back... Lots of water and only half a cigarette at 11.54am.
I am going to do this :-)
> When I feel awful I read another book on C20 (1914-1945) history.
Hmm. I think I'd find that fairly depressing. Though... I guess it has a happy(ish) ending. In that we are still here and co.
> It has a peculiarly calming effect on me and puts my troubles in perpective. Maybe it's a way of putting the death and destruction outside me?
Ah. Yeah, that makes sense. I remember learning in DBT that it really did help somepeople sometimes to contemplate others who are worse off. Helps to put ones own worried in perspective. I guess I do that with reading about people currently living around the world. Have to be careful sometimes with that though or I start to feel even worse about this planet of ours and the human species more in particular.
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