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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (21807)	4/15/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

They mentioned the writing exercise at the end of the piece about green tea, but didn't say much. I didn't realize that NOrman Cousins's system included the hotel room part. I can get behind that, i think hotel rooms are the best places on earth. N & I like to go to a hotel ten minutes away. Take books. No phone. Nothing in the environs reproaching you because it's a mess. It's heaven. When you're hungry you just pretend to sort of dress up (put on shoes and something dark with your jeans, and earrings, and go to the dining room and get served. I always think i'll use the pool, in theory it's part of the attraction; but it takes valuable time away from vegetating. Now that i've learned that it's therapeutic, there's even more reason to gratuitously check into a hotel. It's almost like vitamins or exercise! Do you believe the Glasser theory? There is a theory that everything is germs and viruses-- I mean, like everything. I was completely convinced by an article i read in... i think the Atlantic. Then Lather read it and didn't think much of it, so i forgot it immediately. Psychological theories for explaining disease make me furious, actually. It's like blaming you. How many people could say they feel global helplessness etc... and don't have RA? I tend to be very skeptical about shrinks. Though one of my three best friends is a psychoanalyst and is very acute indeed about people. But my sister is very ill, emotionally, and i feel that her choice of a shrink turned a life crisis into a nightmarish permanent disability. So I'm bitter about that, and could tell ten similar stories. Our two nearest neighbors are both shrinks. I could tell one funny story after another about them. Talk about the blind leading the blind.