Monday 28 May 2018

Our Painkiller

What I read

According to “I took 57 painkillers a day to get high” (2018), BBC News the writer says that countless of Egyptians have a painkiller addiction problem. Abdul Hameed, one of painkiller addiction, started to take Tramadol – an opioid-based painkiller at the age of 13 because he wanted to get high. The Abbasiya Psychiatric Hospital reported that more than 50% of patients were just around early 20 to 30 years old. The statistic also shows that 70% of patients are male. Egyptians patients really struggled with painkiller addiction problem. Some of them tried to do treatment to overcome addiction with a treatment specialist.




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My response 


I remember that I first took a painkiller when I was around 10 years old. I took it because I had classic symptoms: a headache. I took it at the nursing room after studying mathematics class. I had been studied a lot at that time because I had a very slow progress in academic subjects. My mother forced me to study extra class both weekday and weekend, but I still got “not yet grade” kindergarten until high school. So, I ended up with taking a painkiller, but it did not kill my pain anymore. What is the pain? I realized that my pain was I hated academic subjects. Even though I studied a lot, it did not improve because I was not into it. It seems like I took the wrong medicine. 

Everyone all has their own underlying disease. These may be some of them: didn’t get into the university that dream off, fail some test, fear something happen, fear something will not happen, overthinking, no feeling, very tried, worried in something, nervous, lack of energy, lack of inspiration, cannot think of something, cannot find something, cannot feel something, don’t know where to go next, decide what to choose, decide what to not choose, hopeless in something or lost something. 

Sometimes our painkiller: just go outside, turn off our phone, go for a walk, take a deep breath, go to the gym, eat some fruit, call some friends, go to the temple, go to sauna, look up to the sky, enjoy sunrise, capture sunset, talk to someone, help somebody, do new things, go to new place, being in present, being realistic, drink water, sip some tea, grasp some book, lean on our couch, close our eye, open our mind and try again.

We all have our own soul symptoms at some point. We do not need to go to the nursing room. All we need is just find “your own painkiller”. 

And, take it!

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My question

What is your painkiller? How it works?
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Reference

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3 comments:

  1. Peter AUA28 May 2018 at 06:38

    I liked Boom's list of painkillers. I sometimes go to a sauna, which might seem odd in the heat of Bangkok, but I find it relaxing. Another of my favourites is eating with friends, which is something I try to do at least a couple of times a week.

    I almost never take the pill type painkiller, and usually tell doctors I don't want them on the rare occasions I have to visit a hospital. Obviously, a lot of people do take them, and Boom also gave some thoughtful ideas about why people might become addicted to drugs like opioids, yaa baa, alcohol and all the other popular drugs that people have been getting addicted to for thousands of years, and which become far more problematic when bad laws make them illegal.

    Finally, I liked Booms post because it fits nicely with the new topic we will start in Skillful this morning, disease, although its focus is on physiological rather then psychological disease.

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  2. Peter AUA28 May 2018 at 06:41

    And as I'm writing these comments, I'm enjoying my morning coffee, whose powerful drugs keep the withdrawal headaches I would otherwise suffer away. I'm addicted to coffee and have been for decades, but I don't think it's a harmful drug addiction. In fact, the evidence suggests that it has some very real health benefits, far more than whimpy green tea, and it also goes well with my addiction to eating out with friends.
    Back to life-enhancing coffee.

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    1. Anonymous30 May 2018 at 20:57

      Thank you Peter.

      Everyday, I really enjoy morning coffee too. I remember that I first drank coffee when I was studying at secondary school. I hated it. It is not because the flavor of it, it is because I was told by countless adult that drinking coffee is not good for your health and you are young. Therefore, you should not drink it. It is really about political hate!

      When I was studying at University. I tried it again but I felt like "SO SO". I drank it because sometimes I have to work for my project all night. So, I have to drink it.

      My mom really love drinking coffee. She drink coffee everyday. Once she decided to buy home made espresso machine, it changes my life. I completely addicted to it. Sometimes, I drink coffee 3 cups a day.

      Now, I really into it and found that making coffee is like the combination between science and art. I absolutely enjoy watching world barista championship and coffee documentary from Youtube. It also inspires me to practice "latte art",but I am still not good at it. It's hard.

      In the world of professional coffee makers, they suggest to use digital scale when we make a cup of coffee. It is because the amount of water and coffee bean effect the flavor. It is also include temperature and time of extraction.

      So, this is one of my painkiller.

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