More things to dislike about being ill: that thing where you shouldn't be so tired and your brain feels like jelly.
More things to dislike about being ill: that thing where you shouldn't be so tired and your brain feels like jelly. Calling it malaise doesn't help. It's like that thing about making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Never gonna happen. Also, my voice kinda sounds like Roz. But it's the malaise and the jelly-brain that are definitely not cool.
Malaise is so fancy and french sounding. Like, malaise on a chaise.
ReplyDeleteI tried calling it malaise so I'd feel less like I was malingering. It didn't work.
ReplyDeleteIt's only malingering if you're getting something out of it.
ReplyDelete...I feel like I'm malingering every single time I spend an afternoon on the couch with a blankie and a box of tissues instead of womaning up and willing the illness away like I could do if I were just less incompetent.
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Yeah, see, this is where the willpower argument breaks down. I do feel like if you think/believe it that will make it true, sort of, so if you think you can you can. However, until science discovers the mechanism by which we control our own immune systems, and also manage to somehow prevent all the crummy side effects, this is not a willpower issue.
ReplyDeleteAn experiment to really test that would be to keep injecting people, one group with placebo, one with cytokines, and keep telling them they can do it! Even if you start off with everyone specifically selected for their strong belief in their own willpower, I promise you there will be people who just want to stop feeling so horrible and quit, and only a few that stick it out. They will still hate you, but they will stick it out.
P.S. They kinda already did that in an uncontrolled fashion with the first treatments for Hepatitis C.
P.P.S. A lot of people couldn't make it through the six months of treatment because they always felt like they had the flu.
yes, well, I'm pretty pathological about my own pathologies, it turns out.
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