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MId-life Blues

Obesity And Depression in mid-life Mid life comes in with mid-riff expansion for most of us. Why? Is there a psychological connect between weight gain and mid-life blues? Possibly yes. To "let go" is a chareteristic of most middle aged people. At this age we are confronted with reality of our puny existence, overwhelmed by our past ridiculous assumption that we are invincible and brought down to earth by an opening of the third eye vision with which we see just how pathetic our lives are. So we just 'let go'. When we let go , our posture changes to a slump, our outlook grows numb, our mood changes to a grump and our metabolic work-out is considerably reduced but proportionately our calorie intake is increased. A depressed outlook causes inactivity or addictions to mindless activities like watching TV or facebooking or habitual working on a stationary job. On the other hand, we draw comfort from food in order to excite our brain cells--ie we hog to clear the

The Schizoid Phenomenon

In olden days, famous schizophrenics were Gods and God’s messengers, or God’s most sincere followers. Reading the book of genesis might lead you to believe that God is an alien. He lives somewhere far out in space, in a place called heaven . Sitting there, he one day devised a plan to create a new world. So, poof! Earth was created and with it came its inhabitants, of which man was the most favoured(indigenous) creation. Writers and philosophers who had a direct link to God consciousness, could believe themselves as God’s messengers who wrote the story of genesis and made each one of the ancient men and women believers in the concept of an Alien God who played the puppeteer to every living thing and non-living thing in the world . So Adam and Eve’s story was penned down in simple words and shows how the puppeteer set down the rules and regulations for us to follow. While the real puppeteer is only a concept, the story writer became his messenger and the de facto puppeteer who