{"id":21641,"date":"2024-08-08T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21641"},"modified":"2024-08-08T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T20:08:29","slug":"health-wellbeing-wobbles-relapses-the-urge-to-purge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21641","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH & WELLBEiNG: Wobbles, Relapses & The Urge to Purge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A huge improvement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Believe it or not, the image above captures a huge improvement<\/em> in the state of clutter in that quarter of our bedroom. This area is not so good:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mayhap I\u2019ll attack this section next?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I took four black bin bags full of clothes, from Teresa\u2019s mum\u2019s place, and a chunk of my own clothes (that are damaged or past their best), and dumped the lot in the clothing recycling bins in the Sainsburys car park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also took about 80-100 vinyl records (and a tiny little electric \u2018disco light\u2019!) to one charity shop, and two bags full of mostly WWII military history books. I\u2019d guestimate about 60 books. The only non-military stuff was a small selection of duplicate Tolkien paperbacks I really<\/em> don\u2019t need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teresa just came in, beaming, with these.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Teresa popped into the garden briefly, as she often does of an evening. And came upstairs, face all aglow, with two whopping great figs. She planted a number of fig twigs taken from her family\u2019s fig tree, in Stanmore, several ago. And they\u2019ve thrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bollocks\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now to less happy matters: last night I drank a small (35 cl) bottle of whisky, purchased en-route home from work, at Aldi. I\u2019ve been drinking the occasional alcoholic \u2018Dame Edna\u2019 for a while, after a spell of tee-totalism. And, in those famous last words of the alky-horlick\u2026 \u2018I fort I cud \u2018andle it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, up till last night, I could. And did. Sadly, however, on this occasion whisky precipitated other foolishness. And Lordy-Lord, I was paying for it today. I\u2019ve sworn blind I\u2019d not make these fool mistakes again. But, lo and behold, I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What brings on these occasional relapses? Wobbles. By which I mean fits of depression and frustration. Anyway, I think – I fervently hope – I\u2019ve weathered this wee storm? It\u2019s the same day\/evening as the worst of my behaviour. The edgy panic, the fear and loathing have, mercifully, passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been helped by a number of things: my darling wife; The Samaritans; my own coping procedures (affirmation cards, positive activity, etc); and\u2026 by stopping before I slid off the edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, the image above captures a huge improvement in the state of clutter in that quarter of our bedroom. This area is not so good: I took four black bin bags full of clothes, from Teresa\u2019s mum\u2019s place, and a chunk of my own clothes (that are damaged or past their best), … <\/p>\n

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