{"id":26001,"date":"2025-01-18T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26001"},"modified":"2025-01-18T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T13:20:01","slug":"health-wellbeing-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26001","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My dratted cold is still hanging about, like an unwelcome guest\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to have shifted from predominantly throat based (coughing, upper respiratory tract irritation, etc), to largely nasal. Whereas prior to now, I was surprised at how little mucus I was producing, now it\u2019s at those unpleasantly prodigious levels of output I associate with a cold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvLtKSwqt6c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also struggle with mental health issues. And I sometimes wonder, chicken and egg style, which came first? Is there a causal relationship of any kind \u2018twixt the two?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been getting particularly bad January colds now for the last five years, at least. Always the same: tickly, wheezy throaty biz, and then associated issues: headaches, beck pain, sore throat (all exacerbated by so much coughing); then nasal stuff, added to the coughing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And these things can, esp\u2019 if not managed well, cause sleep issues. I have to try and sleep with my torso more or less upright, to deal with the constant cough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do worry that this annual pattern is now repeated every year, without fail. And in the exact same ways. I\u2019m even worried it might do me in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there\u2019s trying to earn a crust, whilst unwell. I really ought to just rest, and recover. But economic circumstances simply rule that out. I <em>have <\/em>to earn. So I have to get up, go out, and work. Even if that keeps the cold going longer. Which I very much suspect it does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this all feeds into depression. The despairing feeling that things are more likely to get worse, as time passes, than better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a cold, or at least the kind of colds I\u2019m getting, rapidly lead me to very self-destructive thought patterns. Based on the old \u2018cessation of suffering\u2019 gambit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dratted cold is still hanging about, like an unwelcome guest\u2026 It seems to have shifted from predominantly throat based (coughing, upper respiratory tract irritation, etc), to largely nasal. Whereas prior to now, I was surprised at how little mucus I was producing, now it\u2019s at those unpleasantly prodigious levels of output I associate with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=26001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Ln","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}