I went to the chiropractor to get my back checked out as it has been bothering me more than usual for quite sometime. The exercises my previous chiropractor in Oklahoma gave me didn't seem to be helping anymore. One of the exercises caused severe popping at the base of my spine so I decided to get an update on my spinal situation. When I got the x-rays back and reviewed them with the doctor I discovered that I had fractured my neck at some point along time ago. I couldn't think of having any neck injuries severe enough to cause a fracture.
On Wednesday I had to attend a class at said chiropractic office as part of the new patient program what I found out in the course of an hour was astounding. In the class he showed us pictures of babies being delivered by our wonderful medical system with their necks being contorted in positions nature never intended. He also talked about the number of injuries sustained by babies born by c section. I was born by c section, a particularly messy one in which I was almost born retarded or dead. Sounds like this may be the cause of my neck fracture I can't remember.
He also said that these birth injuries don't produce negative effects on the child's well being for 7 to 15 years. When I turned 15 I became severely depressed and suicidal even though there was nothing in my life that would cause me to feel so shitty. I always thought it was a chemical imbalance. I never went to a psychiatrist because I knew they would just feed me meds. Through the years I was able to cope with the depression and suicidal thoughts and got them both beat back into their cage with a relapse here and there.
It strikes me as ironic that 15 years after the neck injury I incurred the mental negativities that have troubled me a great deal for a little over a decade. The thing that strikes me the most about the whole situation is that there are probably thousands of other people with the same condition as me who are gobbling prozac or whatever the anti-depressant of the month is hoping to combat their illness when in fact their neck and spinal cord are fucked causing their system to function at less than optimal levels.
I'm currently rehabbing my neck and spinal cord in attempt to combat the extreme fatigue I've encountered over the past year. Just over the last two weeks I've felt a great improvement. Some of it mental? Probably. I'm fortunate to have found a good chiropractor this time as the last one didn't even take x-rays of my neck where the real problem lies. As a conclusion to the post I'd like to recommend everyone see a chiropractor to have their spinal situation evaluated and worked on to help them combat whatever ails them, but I can't do that. Finding a reputable chiropractor is no easy chore and to be honest with you all of what I've just said is speculation on my part with regards to the neck fracture at birth and the effects it may have caused 15 years later.
What I do know is that our whole view on health and wellness needs to change in this country and probably all over the world. I know that sounds trite, but we are supposed to be living in a technologically advanced society with all of these great advancements and in reality this shit is still barbaric.
On Wednesday I had to attend a class at said chiropractic office as part of the new patient program what I found out in the course of an hour was astounding. In the class he showed us pictures of babies being delivered by our wonderful medical system with their necks being contorted in positions nature never intended. He also talked about the number of injuries sustained by babies born by c section. I was born by c section, a particularly messy one in which I was almost born retarded or dead. Sounds like this may be the cause of my neck fracture I can't remember.
He also said that these birth injuries don't produce negative effects on the child's well being for 7 to 15 years. When I turned 15 I became severely depressed and suicidal even though there was nothing in my life that would cause me to feel so shitty. I always thought it was a chemical imbalance. I never went to a psychiatrist because I knew they would just feed me meds. Through the years I was able to cope with the depression and suicidal thoughts and got them both beat back into their cage with a relapse here and there.
It strikes me as ironic that 15 years after the neck injury I incurred the mental negativities that have troubled me a great deal for a little over a decade. The thing that strikes me the most about the whole situation is that there are probably thousands of other people with the same condition as me who are gobbling prozac or whatever the anti-depressant of the month is hoping to combat their illness when in fact their neck and spinal cord are fucked causing their system to function at less than optimal levels.
I'm currently rehabbing my neck and spinal cord in attempt to combat the extreme fatigue I've encountered over the past year. Just over the last two weeks I've felt a great improvement. Some of it mental? Probably. I'm fortunate to have found a good chiropractor this time as the last one didn't even take x-rays of my neck where the real problem lies. As a conclusion to the post I'd like to recommend everyone see a chiropractor to have their spinal situation evaluated and worked on to help them combat whatever ails them, but I can't do that. Finding a reputable chiropractor is no easy chore and to be honest with you all of what I've just said is speculation on my part with regards to the neck fracture at birth and the effects it may have caused 15 years later.
What I do know is that our whole view on health and wellness needs to change in this country and probably all over the world. I know that sounds trite, but we are supposed to be living in a technologically advanced society with all of these great advancements and in reality this shit is still barbaric.
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Dolls is a beautiful film too...Takeshi Kitano is always dope, he's almost like a japanese robert de niro