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There’s this new condition scientists have identified called ‘social jetlag’. It comes from messing with your body clock primarily by sleeping-in in the morning. This creates symptoms including lack of appetite, digestive problems, inability to concentrate, clumsiness, lack of energy, irritability and fatigue.
Just watched the Australian movie Ruben Guthrie. It wasn’t a particularly great movie but it was interesting because the main character was a hard partying high-achiever, who was using drugs and alcohol to sustain his success and feed that part of his nature that loved living on the edge.
Caught a few minutes of The Biggest Loser where a group of people were being labelled, shamed, guilt-tripped for ‘losing control’ and basically being treated in the same judgmental shabby manner as drug users are. In TBL food is seen as the problem but in my work it has nothing to do with food, just as drug addiction has nothing to do with drugs.
I treat heaps of people who say they feel like a fake all day while going about their business in the normal world, then they get home hit the drugs or alcohol and finally feel ‘this is me’.
The Sunday Mail really is the Ice-Times today headlining ‘A nation cursed by the evil of ice’. It describes the drug as pernicious and diabolical. This is the same old sensationalism we always get from the media. Ice is not good or bad, it just is. In my mind the interesting bits of the articles were the ice-user’s comments of feeling ‘untouchable’, ‘invincible’ or that ‘Ice unlocks the secrets of the mind and the body’.
All the talk on mandatory detox after Jacqui Lambie’s comments, and on Tony Abbott’s ‘dob in a dealer’ strategy makes me realize that I’m so on track with my ‘what did you get right on drugs’ recovery approach. Jacqui Lambie, Tony Abbott, even drug users are speaking clichés.
Reading the Ice Times (aka Sunday Mail) about Tony Abbott’s new strategy of ‘dob in a dealer’. Really? Are we all in primary school? What a tragic waste of money the whole ice-task force is going to turn out to have been.
A lot of talk on mandatory detox after Jacqui Lambie’s comments, working in the field I totally understand her desperation, I see the pain drugs create in users and the emotional pain their actions create in others on a daily…
There seem to be more media stories on ice every day now. But I’ve noticed a shift away from the stereotypical demonizing of dealers and users.