Hello jammers. FIRST OFF, I apologize for my coming by on Friday, the nervous and very close to deadline day. It's been a tough two weeks and I've changed accomodation from one place to the next and only have internet from time to time. Luckily! Today I have it. Hurrah!
So. I shall send you off with a rather medical theme. Prescribed drugs are part of our everyday lives, for some people it's what they live on, for some people it's just something that's come along on the way. In my short life I have encountered doctors who want to solve everything problem with a pill. Like the world is just a big pile or bubblewrap and whenever a bubble is burst it needs filling instead being supported to live in its new, lowered state. I guess I might've gone a bit too far with the bubblewrap, but I hope you get the picture. The human mind is still mostly an unknown territory. Everything is linked to another thing, which means different drugs when put together have whole different effects. What is your view on prescribed drugs? Painkillers, sedatives, allergy meds? Anti-depressants? I don't want an essay, this is poetry jam. But you rarely see poetry on medication. And I'm curious.
I, for one, have been living in a spiral of anti-depressants, sleeping meds and sedatives for several years, asthma meds have accompanied me my whole life. I have terrible hatred towards any sort of pill. I fear it'll mess with my brain or my body in a way it isn't supposed to. So, if anything good comes of it, the hallucinations I get now and then give me things to write about.
So, jammers...
Xanax, anyone?
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ReplyDeleteI am excited about this prompt!
Be back to link!
(I wasnt nervous )
I felt like I wrote this post myself...I stopped taking sleep meds or Xanax two years ago, haven't looked back...interesting post...asthma meds, I only wish I could stop...
ReplyDeleteI'm glad (well, not exactly GLAD, it's not a good thing) that I'm not the only one out there who has issues with meds. I felt like this needed to be said, it isn't really talked about that much in poetry, or at least that's how I've seen it...
ReplyDeletewell this should be intersting..ha
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for my migraine meds, I would probably be suicidal by now. As imperfect as meds are, I am thankful every day I the handful of them I do so I can function. And when the preventatives don't work, I'm extra thankful for the new triptans (you migraineurs know the drill!) This should be an interesting week!
ReplyDeleteThat was supposed to read "...I am thankful every day for the handful of them I take so I can function." Clearly not functioning very well right now!
ReplyDeleteThis is certainly a challenge but could have interesting side effects
ReplyDeletea very interesting prompt ~ it's difficult when one doesn't want to take medication but thank goodness the medication exists {ie: statins for high cholesterol have side effects but also save people's lives.} i took a little trip through the solar system after an ambien and wine {only in the poem, not for real.} {smile}
ReplyDeleteVery interesting issue, really. I'm searching for photos and topics that can trigger a humorous response (last week's JAM threw me for a loop and I realize I need to stretch my wings a bit... but I doubt this challenge will be my starting block... ha. I think this issue is awesome because of the fact it is rarely talked about. I don't have much experience in this field other than an occasional Tylenol, but I find it intriguing nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I've seen this in action before...
ReplyDeletewhat fun!
ReplyDeleteI know how you feel. I am on asthma medicine, BP medicine and also medicine to metabolise the food I eat. I do not want to add any more, hence I manage to live blandfood as the asthma medicine does a number on one's stomach. Hi this is Munir over here at Focus. Welcome to the world of medical marvels.
ReplyDeleteWhere would we all be without the odd pill? Less rattle-y when we jumped up an down?! :) LOL
ReplyDeleteFunny how we use he same generic word - "drug" - for alcohol, nicotine, crack concaine, heroin, cannabis etc etc as well as for "prescription and OTC medicines".
ReplyDeleteBTW . . no, I'm not that kind of Doctor!
Interesting prompt.
ReplyDeleteMost medicines don't work (Numbers Needed to Treat), Big Pharma creates needs where there arn't any and psychiatrist label normal human emotions and behaviours as mental illness.
Pharmaceutical companies must be laughing their heads off (as well as making gross profits).
Anna :o]
It's better and worse than that, HyperCRYPTICAL. Most of them are "useful" poisons.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the so-called "side effects" are documented; but fear not - there's often another drug you can take to stop the side effect. This may or may not reduce the efficacy of the first drug, as well as having side effects of its own . . and so on and so on.
Invest your pension fund in Big Pharma - you can't go wrong.
And lo! The verification word is yet another wonder drug. CANZODIL!
PLEASE, please remove my link to Poetry Jam this week ... something happened in the connection, it's impossible to access my post ... viewers are taken to some random website. I'll try again later today.
ReplyDeleteI'm up. It's not pretty, but it's there :)
ReplyDeleteI am drug free soul, so my entry is somewhat unrelated.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
Aw no! I'm on so many things that I rattle when I walk and I feel I really need to actually just write about it. But my mom reads my blog and would go spare. She thinks my PhD application was rejected because the professors know *rolleyes*
ReplyDeletecould I ask someone to maybe post up the medication one on their blog, and I'll do a post about how I'm taking vitamens and feel great and people can leave their comments on the medication poem on my blog?
ReplyDeleteIs that too complicated?
@ Helen: Um, I know that removing linky links is something the blog administrator is supposed to be able to do, but I haven't figured out how. Anybody know?
ReplyDeleteHey, I'm in! How do my poems get so long? I didn't mean for it to be long.
ReplyDeletesorry to leave this in the comments~i'm doing my Poetry Jam post & i have a couple of questions {my blog's on WordPress so i'm unfamiliar with Blogger} can someone email me with a way to reach you? [ haikulovesongs (at) gmail(dot)com ] the post is ready except for two things i need to ask. thank you. dani
ReplyDeleteI cheated! Sorry!
ReplyDeleteI don't know anything about wordpress, Dani, but some of our other authors use it. You're listed as an author to Poetry Jam: when you accepted the invitation, did you have to set up a password? At www.blogger.com your user name is your email address. Alternatively, if Wordpress lets you author multiple blogs, is the poetry jam one of them?
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, your draft post is right there in the queue. Some of the arrangement is odd, but I take it that's deliberate. I can hit 'publish' for you if you can't get back to it.
Great prompt. I think I could have written a lot of poems and maybe I still will. I am familiar with addiction, but haven't dabbled in pills too much. There's so much new stuff out there. Maybe I'll learn a thing or two from all of the poems!
ReplyDeleteDani--I'm on wordpress but I am often fumbling with it, too. Good luck.
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nanu,
ReplyDeleteif you want i can walk you through removing a post from linky...email me btm2007 (at) yahoo.com
Thanks for hosting!
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