anxiety

Tolling bell

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My generation, dropping like flies to range of nasty diseases

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Mine field

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The fragments of past conversations stick like time bombs in the mind

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Just routine

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Ordinary life is boring for the young, but longed for when sick

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Time for your sleeping pill sir, wake up

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Hospitals: places where you need to sleep but are not allowed to

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Aloha

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Like a volcano, anxiety rumbles, then suddenly erupts

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Predestined

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Had a friend who would say “inevitably”, and I guess some things are.

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Surface impressions

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Dermatitis is only skin deep but its causes can lie much deeper

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Age old story

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First the body grinds to a screaming halt; then the mind quickly follows

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I may be able to handle it

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There’s too much fiction in the World – give me the truth, nothing but the truth

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Every day above ground

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Chemotherapy is awful but better than the alternative

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