This is what happens when you work yourself almost to death.

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by k33n • 16 years ago

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anigbrowl• 16 years ago

Yikes! A cautionary tale, to be sure. Glad to hear you're back on an even keel; a bit of time to recharge your batteries and reconnect with the basics of life sounds ideal. This is also a good time to read that Serious Book you always meant to get around to, so as to keep your mind exercised without falling back into its habitual grooves.

I think that looking after ourselves is a problem for a lot of 'knowledge workers'. William gibson said it best, in Neuromancer:

For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall. In the bars he'd frequented as a cowboy hotshot, the elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.

k33n• 16 years ago

I really like that quote.

ryandvm• 16 years ago

I thought it was pretty much settled that the old "stress causes ulcers" theory was a myth and that current medical knowledge is that ulcers are usually caused by the H. Pylori bacteria.

I always felt sorry for the poor guys that would get ulcers and then everyone piles on about how they need to relax. No, it turns out they just needed antibiotic.

This is what happens when you work yourself almost to death.

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