YouTube Clip of the Week: ” A Pill, a Pump and a Needle”
OK, I’m going to do the YouTube Clip of the Week early this week because I barely know if I’m coming or going. In one sense, it helps my self-esteem to land such a huge web content job. On the other hand, my depression symptoms have worsened due to the challenges of the job.
I’ve landed a huge (and lucrative) assignment to do 664 biographies of Australian actors and actresses. (Yes, there are at least 664 of them). Doing the first lot, I’ve barely been able to scrape together passable yet mostly non-existant info on such Oz luminaries as Adam Cockburn, Aden Young, Alan Cassell and Alan Hopgood.
Now, the last one of that list, Alan Hopgood, is better known as a playwright than he is an actor. This scene I discovered on YouTube while trying to find information on Alan Hopgood’s childhood and schooling. It’s from one of his plays, “A Pill, A Pump and a Needle” which is about three women who suddenly come down with diabetes.
However, this scene is more about depression than it is about diabetes. Granted, the main character talking is not only going through Type 2 diabetes, but also menopause. The depression she describes was most likely triggered by her ill health and it may go away when she finishes her menopause and gets some control over her diabetes.
But it is still a good description of the lows you can hit when you are in a funk or (as I call them ) a jag. Hope you enjoy it:
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