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[veazey21]

I was flipping around the TV today and landed on an episode of "The New Yankee Workshop." I used to watch that every Sunday morning with my dad before we went to church, but today, all I could think of was how much I wanted to do something, make something

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[veazey21]

The actual reason that I always do stuff when you're here is because you're only here once, maybe twice in a year and I miss hanging out with you. So, I deal with the pain for a day, and spend two or three days recuperating from it. I can't do that often because of the toll it takes on me, and I've actually been discouraged from doing it at all, but screw it. You're not around that often.
In talking with my therapist that I see here regularly and with the psychologists at the MHNI, the consensus is that these headaches aren't psychosomatic or similarly tied to a subconscious fear of the real world. I was really worried about that for a long time myself.
Thirdly, I do play computer games some, but even in the last week I can count at least six or eight times where I've been sitting at my computer (usually reading stuff in Google Reader or on a forum somewhere) and I've had to go lie down because my head hurt too much to keep reading. It happens when I'm playing games, too, including Solitaire. You may also be interested to know that there is a correlation between video games and chronic pain, where a study concluded that the act of playing games on a computer (or console, which is basically a computer) actually distracts people suffering from chronic pain and is a way to manage the pain in a way not even medicine is able to. Plus, basically every video game is repetition; once you've learned the basic mechanics of a game, it's just repeating them or variations on them to achieve a series of objectives. All games are like this, really. It's why we enjoy them: structured environments that allow us to act out conflict without hostility.