Fry some onion, garlic, celery and courgette chopped up small and then added cubed potato until it all goes translucent. Add some Marigold bouillon powder, mix in well and pinch a couple of cubes of potato to munch because it's irresistible.
Add water and simmer until everything is soft enough to blend into a fairly thin soup. Chuck in chopped green stuff, cabbage, spinach, green beans, peas, a few broad beans, broccoli, whatever.
The important bit: Add a load of chopped mint, some parsley if you have it, season with salt, pepper, maybe a drop, or two of Tabasco and I like a squeeze of lemon juice in just about every veg dish.
From your profile: Don't bother me if you're even slightly self absorbed...
Have you ever been around a pregnant woman? We can get kinda...focussed.
If I were you, I'd do something about your negative attitude towards women. Once you've got that sorted in your head, get rid of the negative stuff about women in your profile.
You're also perhaps narrowing down your field asking for a woman to match your (extensive) achievements, but maybe wanting her to put her career on hold to have a child with you. Would sharing what you've achieved be worth having a family to you?
I'm only just getting going with a career now I'm a grandmother because I prioritised being a mum. That was more important to me. Just sayin'.
Maybe that person is right for them at the time, for whatever reason.
Maybe even being in an abusive relationship is a learning experience and part of a process towards healing, if you look at it in a certain way.
I'm not sure I like the idea of someone being viewed as 'not right', like some people have to learn and grow and others don't. Everyone and every relationship has value.
I had a German straw-filled, hump-backed, mohair bear with a snout. He was sent in the post by family friends squashed up in a shoe box for my seventh birthday. I clung on to that bear like a maternally deprived baby rhesus monkey for most of my childhood...and I still have him.
I handled him so much I wore his felt paw pads and mouth away. My dad glued new ones on, much to the horror of a bear 'expert' I once told the story to. He told me the bear's value had been ruined and I felt sad he didn't see beyond financial value. To me, my bear's value was increased by my dad's kind repair. He has a part of my dad's soul in him.
It's nearly my bear's 40th birthday, my first dog chewed his mouth (he has my beloved dog's soul in him as well) and his squeak barely makes a sound any more, but I still adore him.
Psychiatric diagnoses are based on a medical model. A medical model will say if you have a certain collection of symptoms it's indicative of a certain illness and we can be fairly certain of diagnosing that illness. So, if someone has a high temperature, runny nose, is sneezing, has a sore throat, a cough and breathing difficulties they are likely to have a viral infection. If however, someone has just one of those symptoms like sneezing, it's maybe an allergy.
A very similar thing happens with psychiatric diagnoses. Symptoms are noted and then fitted to a diagnosis.
The trouble is, where as with a physical diagnosis we can verify the diagnosis by ascertaining the presence of a causal virus, a psychiatric diagnosis is based upon a model.
The model is created through case studies where the learned people gather symptoms together and then give it a name. There are many, many, many models. Therefore, psychiatrists have to try and shove the symptoms exhibited into one model that best fits from the many options. This has it's uses, but it is really limited and sometimes can be detrimental.
In arguing about serial killers and which psychiatric model they might have enough symptoms to be shoved into, we actually miss out on most of the relevant information which might explain how they came to serially kill.
There is an evolution going on moving away from psychiatric diagnoses and towards a 'formulation' which focusses more upon the individual in far greater detail.
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RE: Candida Albicans.....Desperate to be rid of this and eat a tasty meal.
I've heard holding coconut oil in your mouth for a while will get rid of that furry tongue.