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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been going through a bit of a — Actually i’m not sure what it is.  I’ve not been depressed, or even sad, just spending too much time thinking about things and prone to see the negative.

So to combat this, I’ve been watching a lot of comedy.  Chicken soup for the soul.

My comedic tastes are quite brutal.  I do like a lot of innocent comedians and their acts: like Ken Dodd, Ronnie Corbett, etc, but i’m really at home with the most disgusting and brutal comedians.  Read More »

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Source: Out with the prozac and in with bedtime snacks.

Instead of just popping ‘happy pills’ such as Prozac to beat the blues, Plant and her co-author, Janet Stephenson, advise sufferers to take steps such as avoiding dairy products, sending fewer text messages, eating porridge at night and playing card games. They say all their tips are based on hard scientific evidence gathered from studies around the world.

Having been offered some ‘happy pills’ not so long ago (by a doctor, not in a jiffy bag by some spotty teenager), i feel somewhat qualified on this subject, not that it matters, i can be quite opinionated even on things i have no understanding of, it’s a frame of mind.

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