I cannot eat!

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07 May 2009, 4:39 pm

Earlier by accident I saw a picture of someone with those medical tubes hanging out of their mouth(the breathing things). I cannot stand the site of medical tubes and now I've just made myself a bowl of Ramen Noodles(I eat 2 bowls every day), and I cannot bring myself to eat it, every bite I think about the medical tubes and start to gag. I cannot get this off my mind, I have tried distracting myself on the computer, but I keep thinking about those medical tubes.

sgrannel
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07 May 2009, 4:43 pm

Ramen noodles are surprisingly unhealthy because of their high saturated fat content. Try eating something else, anything else.

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07 May 2009, 6:32 pm

sgrannel wrote:

Ramen noodles are surprisingly unhealthy because of their high saturated fat content. Try eating something else, anything else.

Don't forget the ridiculously high sodium content.

Try listening to some music at an uncomfortable volume to clear your head. That works for me occasionally when my mind is obsessing over something unpleasant.

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07 May 2009, 6:35 pm

sgrannel wrote:

Ramen noodles are surprisingly unhealthy because of their high saturated fat content. Try eating something else, anything else.

The OP wasn't asking for dietary advice.

BTW, that happens to me a lot, with an intrusive picture just taking over and hanging around forever. One thing that helps me, is to watch a movie or something, hopefully to crowd it out of your consciousness. Or, if you are good at imagery, try turn the disturbing picture into something pleasant. Once, after seeing something distressing, I managed to turn it into something pretty. It was hard at first, but it eventually works.

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07 May 2009, 8:22 pm

I get an empty, sinking feeling whenever I ponder what it must be like for someone in a minimally conscious or persistent vegetative state. I've overpondered to the point that all the paraphernalia associated with it (feeding tubes, traches, wheelchairs) sometimes elicited a reverse Pavlov response. Suddenly I wasn't so hungry anymore.

Maybe this husk of a human being that lies before me is entropy personified. This condition must be the hell for existentialists. And that's why it hit me like it did.

There is a twisted irony in it. You skip lunch when you see someone in that condition and lunch was the only thing that Terri Schiavo in her last days desired (if indeed, she still had desires) in this whole world.

Yeah, and noodles are empty carbs. Try whole wheat pasta.

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