Do you dare?

[jorgath.livejournal.com]

"I know how to add. I know how to subtract. I know how to write my name. I know how to eat without spilling much. I know how to multiply without spilling much. I know how to divide. I know how to write my name. I know how to read my name. I know how to talk. I know how to listen. I know how to sing. I know how to play music on a stereo. I know how to touch people. I know how to be touched. I know what money is. I know what people will do for it. I know what my name is. I know what my face looks like. I know what the dark looks like. I know what the light looks like. I know what a kiss is. I know what love is. I know what love is. I know what love is. I know what love is.




And you dare to call me insane. You dare. You."

From a site that gamers will appreciate more than non-gamers.

Cross-posted to my journal.

WE already knew this but...

[stillbourne.livejournal.com]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296024,00.html

Depression More Sickening than Some Chronic Disease, Study Says
Friday, September 07, 2007


Depression takes a bigger toll on overall health than the chronic diseases angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, according to a new study in this week's edition of The Lancet.

The study's researchers also concluded that if people are ill, depression makes the sickness worse.

"Our main findings show that depression impairs health state to a substantially greater degree than the other diseases," World Health Organization researcher Dr Somnath Chatterji and colleagues wrote in the Lancet medical journal.

For the analysis, researchers studied data from 245,404 people included in WHO's World Health Survey.

After adjusting for socioeconomic factors and health conditions, depression had the largest effect on worsening health compared with the other chronic conditions. Consistently across countries and different demographic characteristics, people with depression plus one or more chronic diseases had the worst health scores of all the disease states, researchers said.

In an accompanying comment to the study, professor Gavin Andrews and Dr Nickolai Titov, of the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression at the University of New South Wales at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, said some of the problem stems from inadequate treatment of depression in comparison to other chronic diseases.

"Treatment for depression should at least be on a par with that for other chronic diseases," the two wrote.

The Fallen

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I was the priest of my people,

I showed them the truth, they responded with ruth
And I was thrown to the lion's den.


Fled from the wrath of the pharoah,

I crawled through a tunnel that was much too narrow
And I never saw daylight again.


I was the queen of Ikodei,

I ran out of luck and barbarians struck
My kingdom was theirs to reign.


I caught my big sister's bouquet,

I lived my life dreaming of being a wife
Even though that day never came.


They had once called me the Master,

I saw old age coming, going faster and faster
'Til madness took over my brain.


I wanted to be a teacher,

But I saw me becoming less and less of a creature
Who could even remember his name.


I had a dream of my freedom,

It came and it went much to my discontent
And the bondage in Hell was the same.


I was a good friend and then some,

She loved me and held me while her beauty compelled me
Until she left me for fortune and fame.