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Dealing with SAD

24 September 2009

Tags: Anxiety and Depression

Posted by Cherrie

It's that time of the year again -- the beauty of fall has also brought with it less sunshine and more gray sullen rainy days, and here comes another round of my struggle with SAD (seasonal affective disorder).

Since the day before yesterday, I've been feeling extremely tired and depressed. I lost interest in the things I usually love to...

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What's helped my period pain n thus IBS during period

07 September 2009

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Tags: Exploring Self-Empowerment

Posted by Cherrie

Hi everyone, as I wrote on my last entry that the reflexology thingy has helped me a lot during the past few months esp. in reducing my peroid pain and in turn my IBS during that time of the month. So here I've finally gotten the pics drawn -- please excuse the unskilled drawing, my graphic pen is like 10 yrs old and it doesn't work well...

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OK it's been quite a while

04 September 2009

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Tags: Exploring Self-Empowerment

Posted by Cherrie

Yeah, my last entry was May and now it's already September. Been very busy with my second book (translation). And so I was too swamped to come. And in the midst of a frenzied life of an over-worked brain, I grappled with trying to stay reasonably healthy as much as i possibly can so that I could complete the huge work within the pressing...

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Not a particularly good day

13 May 2009

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Tags: IBS & My Otherwise Normal Life

Posted by Cherrie

After a couple of pretty good weeks, my gut finally got angry with me since last evening and lasted most of today. The pain's pretty bad with the multiple BM's, although it's just loose most of the time. And after pausing for a couple hours, it's starting again now just as I was about to get up and get some exercise