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Experiencing Pain

Wednesday Mar 03 2010

Women and men experience pain differently. Recent studies reveal that women, when compared to men, experience more recurrent, severe and longer lasting pain....

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Written by eldering at Health

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Depression

Thursday Dec 06 2007

By Stu Whitley | Bio

No voice divine the storm allay'd,
No light propitious shone;
When snatch'd from all effectual aid,
We perish'd, each alone:
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelm'd in deeper gulphs than he
—William Cowper, The Castaway

There are probably more things at work in the human mind than we will ever know. Too often the turmoil we confront in our daily lives gets the better of us, and we succumb to a depressed state for a day, a month, or perhaps longer*. The above stanza brilliantly captures the sense of isolation, despair and torment in the mind of someone who is incapable of seeing the world with a balanced perspective. Cowper, who was not capable of being diagnosed as such in the 18th century, probably suffered from recurrent depression.

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