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It’s autumn again, so when I draw a bath I make it quite a bit hotter than I would in summer. With this comes The Sadness. Have you ever had that? You step into the bath, you lower yourself in and this totally overwhelming sadness comes upon you. It lasts for about five seconds and then wears off.
Anybody here recognize this?
Anyone here know any kind of explanation for it, psychological, chemical, biological or any other –cal?
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Oh ralph. It's not The Disorder, although lack of sunlight does tend to do my head in in the long run. It's exactly what I described and nothing more. Only in the bath, only in autumn and winter and only for about five secs. After that I'm fine and usually content with watching the glass filled with brandy surfing the bath, heating up.
So herbs' affliction is not mine. Pity, it would've been fun to share an affliction with someone online.
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I have a daylight light against S.A.D, works a treat.
I get the sadness when I wake up all toasty and warm from under my duvet and poke my toe out into the subzero of the bedroom and that first shivver of the day creeps from my toe, up my leg, round the horn and into my spine shaking me awake to another dark, wet morning.
But wet, dark, grey Sunday afternoons on a sofa, feeling off colour drinking beer and watching *utter crap on the telly are great.
*Unless they ever show that new BenElton alleged comedy with Arsehole O'Hanlon and Smell Giddycock what was on for the first time last week, I'd rather have cancer back than watch pile of shit again. (I only watched to see if it was as shit as suspected, it wasn't - it was even shitter)
quote:Originally posted by pettibone: ..... So herbs' affliction is not mine. Pity, it would've been fun to share an affliction with someone online.
Oh but it is. Ralph's SAD interjection came between us, making it look like I was agreeing with him, whereas it was the bath-induced mega-sadness I was empathising with. Extra-effective if it's just getting dark outside.
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I had a bath with Ellie tonight and we washed each other's hair. It was . Usually I refuse to get in the bath with her because she has to have it so much colder than me. [This is my daughter we are talking about here, just in case like].
So, I would suggest that to prevent "THE SADNESS OF THE BATH" you take someone else in there with you. I don't suggest you try and take your cat in there with you though, they tend to get upset and make big, long scratches up your arm
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That someone else I take a bath with, do I have to let them get in first so The Sadness creeps into them and spends it’s powers? After which I can then step in without any discomfort whatsoever?
It’s a bit like having your food tasted so you won’t get murdered by someone from another family, that is.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: But why would you be sad getting into a nice steamy warm bath at this time of year?
It is inexplicable, to be sure. Once I'm in properly, it's fine, but the initial lowering of the body into the hot water brings on a melancholic nostalgia. I thought I was the only one who got this. Maybe, as there are now two of us in the world, it means there's a physical explaination, like the contrast between the skin's temperature and the water, or some such.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: But why would you be sad getting into a nice steamy warm bath at this time of year?
It is inexplicable, to be sure. Once I'm in properly, it's fine, but the initial lowering of the body into the hot water brings on a melancholic nostalgia. I thought I was the only one who got this. Maybe, as there are now two of us in the world, it means there's a physical explaination, like the contrast between the skin's temperature and the water, or some such.
Well, I was hoping someone could give an answer along these lines, actually. I've thought about the temperature difference, but you get it when your skin is warm. Also if a hot bath is taken in summer, it doesn't happen. Maybe it should be checked in the middle of winter, when there's no leaves falling or anything. The temperature thing would be there, but possible mental seasonal disorders could be ignored.Sorry herbs, you're not off the mentalist hook yet.
ben, old people have that. And teh unfit.
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Most people in this country are unfit and half the people in this forum are old - I can do you a Venn diagram if you want.
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A shower is far superior to a bath. Baths are for the elderly or miners in front of coal fires. There's a hint of the working class wife-beater about a bath. Showers are modern, they have more of nudey dancing in the rain about them AND you can have a wee while you're cleaning your teeth thus bypassing Seasonal Adjustment Disorder by conveniently warming your legs.
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You can effectively clean your feet at the same time as showering by leaving the plug in and letting the build up of water soften the thick dead skin, before either scrubbing with a brush, or rubbing down with one of those cheesegrater/stone things.
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quote:Originally posted by Vanilla Online Persona: Showers are modern, they have more of nudey dancing in the rain about them AND you can have a wee while you're cleaning your teeth thus bypassing Seasonal Adjustment Disorder by conveniently warming your legs.
Ray Winstone never got ass-raped in a bath.
Also: look at great scenes from cinema - you can either romp in the tub with Michele Breton and Anita Pallenberg (Performance) or get filleted in the shower by 'Mother' (or, worse, Vince Vaughan).
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quote:Originally posted by Vanilla Online Persona: I'll see your prison bottom fondling and raise you multiple shower-head frigging in Sex and Lucia.
Pfft - I'll see your frigging and raise you a foot-job in 9 Songs.
Also: showers have seen probably the most desperately unerotic scenes in all of culture. Bleach from your mind, if you will, Sly Stallone and Shaz Stone gulping and grinding in Teh Specialist.
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There's no bath vs. shower thing. A shower always, a bath when needed. Standing in a bathtub showering is venndiagramatically asking to die.
It's revealing how people perceive the principle of having a bath. Vanilla obviously has issues with her/his upbringing. No doubt she/he feels like lying in the arms of Arthur Scargill when having a bath. (I tried to sing this to the tune of "Lying In The Arms of Mary" , but it doesn't seem to fit properly.)
Ringo appears to use women's pedicural utensils.
MonkeySusan has just explained to us the meaning of hydrophobia. It comes with heavy drug abuse.
ben, yes please. I'd like a diagram. Also, Anita Pallenberg will look as if she's been in the bath since Performance these days. But I hear you and you're right. It has nothing to do with hygiene. It's a matter of culture, of taste, of sex, of Krause bodies.
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I just like to get clean, and like the 'glowing' sensation you get from properly exfoliated feet. Nothing es sexier than sensitive post-cleaning feet touching cool fresh sheets.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: [blackman laugh]Haa haa haa haaaah[/blackman laugh]
Sounds like one of those places people go to jump off. " What's the sirens for then?" "It's the ambulance." " Why?" "Someone jumped off Blackman Laugh again. The season of sadness has come upon us early this year."
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