Ten mental health tips

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windmiller
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1. adequate sleep
2. good hydration
3. balanced nutrition
4. maintain good oral health
5. cycling of course
6 seek good company
7. avoid bad company if possible
8. bird watching
9. cold showers
10. don't take mental health tips from a cycling forum
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Or cycling tips from a mental health forum?

The Grauniad has another typically unsurprising report: many MPs have mental health problems, unastonishing: many would be unwilling to discuss mental health problems with whips!
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Cyril Haearn wrote:'Don't you go thinking and thinking, thinking so much till your stranded behind
Don't you go thinking and thinking and thinking, thinking so much that you're losing your mind..'
Steve Forbert
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Right again bryn :wink:

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Giving up driving is good for mental and financial health
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1.Avoid professionals if possible
2.Read the poem,If,by Kipling
3.Read a good book
4.Limit use of narcotics
5.Exercise mind and body
6.Tell parents to avoid dementia.
7.Drink moderatley
8.Do gardening for self or others
9 Place needs of others before your own
10.Seek out good music and listen eg.Sibelius.Bob Dylan,John Coltrane
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mumbojumbo wrote:1.Avoid professionals if possible
2.Read the poem,If,by Kipling
3.Read a good book
4.Limit use of narcotics
5.Exercise mind and body
6.Tell parents to avoid dementia.
7.Drink moderatley
8.Do gardening for self or others
9 Place needs of others before your own
10.Seek out good music and listen eg.Sibelius.Bob Dylan,John Coltrane


You were doing all right 'til No. 3. Many books said to be good by goodbook judges turn out to be tedious drones. I was once recommended to read "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" by that Aynal Randy person. Gaw, they're tedious (and very silly indeed).

Then you got to No. 9 - a good recommendation or not, depending on who is included or excluded from "others". I feel it will be maddening to put the needs of Trumpet or BoJoklown before my own (and everyone else's, which would be part of the "deal" with them gharks. Yes).

No. 10 wouldn't be so bad if only you'd said "Bob Dylan but only Blood on The Tracks".

Cugel, also a bit wary of Kipling reads, which are often the literary equivalent of Kipling "cakes". Sweet & sickly & tasting queer, like Olde English Spangles past their sell-by date.
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find somewhere remote until after halloween, no tv, no radio, no internet, no papers, just sunrises and sunsets
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Avoid some CUK fora.
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mumbojumbo wrote:1.Avoid professionals if possible
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3.Read a good book
..
10.Seek out good music and listen eg.Sibelius..

Or more than one book, read old favourites again :wink:
+10 for Sibelius + Elgar + Beethoven
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Which ctc fora should one avoid?
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Cyril Haearn wrote:
mumbojumbo wrote:1.Avoid professionals if possible
..
3.Read a good book
..
10.Seek out good music and listen eg.Sibelius..

Or more than one book, read old favourites again :wink:
+10 for Sibelius + Elgar + Beethoven
..
Which ctc fora should one avoid?


Well, not The Tea Shop, obviously. All cyclists of the webby lanes and alleys need their notion-cake and a tisane of invigorating meme-herb. The lack of these things, when interwebbing, only leads to mind-bonk, sometimes evident in one or two poster arriving here after doing the Conspiracy Sportive or even The Race to The Bottom.

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Cugel wrote:Well, not The Tea Shop, obviously. All cyclists of the webby lanes and alleys need their notion-cake and a tisane of invigorating meme-herb. The lack of these things, when interwebbing, only leads to mind-bonk, sometimes evident in one or two poster arriving here after doing the Conspiracy Sportive or even The Race to The Bottom.

Cugel

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How to get on with coworkers:
'If one wants to get close to them, it is best not to get too close to them'
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Cyril Haearn wrote:
mumbojumbo wrote:1.Avoid professionals if possible
..
3.Read a good book
..
10.Seek out good music and listen eg.Sibelius..

Or more than one book, read old favourites again :wink:
+10 for Sibelius + Elgar + Beethoven
..
Which ctc fora should one avoid?

Do I have supernatural powers of foresight? Soon I am going to a concert of music by Elgar, and Sibelius, and Beethoven (plus a minor Bach) :wink:
..
I like doing things in different sequences, quite daring today, doing my shopping early Saturday, didnae manage it in the week
A bit less routine/different routine is good for MH I think
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Weil es sehr gut fuer die Gesundheit ist habe ich beschlossen, gluecklich zu sein

Because it is very good for ones health, I have decided to be happy :wink:
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"Avoid anyone that believes in surveillance of the population. "

I have also stopped reading newspapers ... for over 20 years I read the Telegraph and the Grauniad every morning, now i don't.
I genuinely feel better.
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Be more Mike.
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