Įl-P has compared the overall sound of the album's music to "a psychedelic Boogie Down Productions record", and like " Scott LaRock and Ced Gee take acid". That's the type of shit that makes my day. It's the South Park theory: when George Clooney appeared on South Park it was as a gay dog. Rob does some back ups, Sweeny plays some guitar, Aes drops a verse, James plays some bass. Little splashes of other peoples voices, talents, energy used in subtle ways is the way I usually like to freak it. My collaborations for the most part come from friendships I have with people who happen to be in the vicinity while I'm making my shit. I still believe there will be an as yet uncertain infectious agent and possibly necessary co-present co-factors that converged, to produce this illness, but I do not think, the “if only I had, eg, worked out more at the gym, or slept more, or been a vegetarian or what have you, that I would not have gotten sick.Despite his usual dislike of "records that have a bunch of (featuring so and so) after every song title", El-P has explained the more organic nature of the collaborations on I'll Sleep When You're Dead: I have adjusted a lot, I have a positive outlook, although I have experienced a tremendous amount of losses in my professonal and personal identity and independence and ability to function.īut, I actually find it offensive, at least as it relates to me, that it was my lifestyle that precipitated my illness. My symptoms waxed and waned, evolved over time and it spite of what I consider state of the art treatment, my condition became such that I had to stop practicing in 2000. I got a severe flu-like illness in 1983, from which I never fully recovered. I am someone who knows THE moment when I became ill…there was nothing gradual or vague about the onset. I did lead a full, satisfying, life, but don’t for a moment think that I simply “brought this illness upon myself based upon my lifestyle” and do not think that if I had lived differently I would not have become sick. I wanted to be a competent doctor like many of my peers, and most of them did not become sick in any way. I was not someone who was on “every committee”, or was driven to be a supereior academician. I really hesitate to “blame” myself, because there were many other people that had similar life tracks (in my case, went to college, medical school, did a residency, put off having a child until I completed my training and began a professional career. I think the jury is still out on the complex set of factors that may be involved in CFS/ME, 2 of the maladies I suffer with. I, too, have asked myself some of these same questions, which really are a way of saying: to what degree did my lifestyle contribute to my becoming ill? Or, even more difficult for me “to buy”, is the assumption that, it in fact, did. Is lack of sleep and lack of rest worth risking the rest of your life for? Because that is the path many are headed down – the same that I have to live and the millions of us with chronic illness.įiled Under: Chronic Illnesses, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS Tagged With: Chronic Illnesses, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Sleep, Sleep disorders Reader Interactions But I am so fed up with this crap being fed to people that working themselves into the ground is going to be beneficial in the long run when I have first-hand seen how much damage it can do permanently to a person’s body. I believe in hard work and I believe in working for your goals. Trying to achieve success and getting to the top fast so that I could have long-term gain only resulted in a life sentence of chronic health problems that I am reminded of every second of every day. But for how many of us has this backfired? It did for me. You need to push yourself hard for the short-term in order to have long-term gain. Then when the illnesses set in, the sleep disorders set in and we know all too well that by not sleeping the theory “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” will come sooner than later because of these issues.īut this message is being promoted across America that success is only achieved by working around the clock, going on very little sleep, because you will have “time to sleep later”. How many of us have heard people say, or have been guilty ourselves of saying that we have too much to do right now, too much life to live and that “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”? I would almost guarantee that probably just about every person with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia has said that because of the Type A personalities most of us exhibit.Īfter all, it was this attitude that helped lead us to the unhealthy lifestyle that we find ourselves in now – pushing our bodies beyond the limits it was capable of producing and not taking enough time to rest – enough time to sleep.
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