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Dani is living a life of self-doubt and a growing sense of underachieving

Television and movies are to blame for many of us feeling let down by reality. We are bombarded with images of the perfect relationship, which immediately makes you doubt your own. We are also shown the perfect affair, which in turns makes you suspect your partner. We see perfect homes, perfect families, perfect friends, hair, bodies, teeth, skin and spend the rest of our time trying to achieve these goals that can only be written.
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Dani is cheered by the election of Barack Obama but annoyed by bad driving

I am excited today. The odd thing is that I am excited about things of a political nature. That has never happened. This morning as I write we found out that Barack Obama is to be the new president of America. I am happy about this. To be perfectly honest I didn’t think it was going to happen – but for the first time since Christmas I woke up happy. I am not really into politics at the best of times but this election really got me going – as it did many other people I know. One person I know would turn any conversation regarding the election onto a subject slightly closer to her heart. That is the ‘Americanisation’ of us. Mainly the Americanisation of our language.
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Dani describes the true effects of suffering a nervous breakdown

Jennifer Lopez admitted to having a nervous breakdown in 2002. It happened while she was in her trailer filming a movie (one that was undoubtedly rubbish). This is what she said happened:
“I was like: ‘I don’t want to move. I don’t want to talk. I don’t want to do anything.’” Apparently, after she didn’t want to move, her bodyguard took her to a doctor where she refused pills and was told simply to “Go home and go to bed.” She said: “He told me to go back to work on Monday after a weekend of sleeping. So that’s what I did.”

Wow! Jennifer Lopez not only has everything she wants but her nervous breakdown lasted one weekend! Excellent, good for her – what a load of bull. It sounds to me (and I’m no doctor) that she was simply suffering from exhaustion.
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Dani on the abundance of phobias and the fear of flying low in the modern age

I have developed a new fear. It only occurs when I am at work. I have no idea why but I am constantly worried that my flies are open. It is a new thing I am worrying about. I have no idea where it came from or why but it is irritating me slightly.

“We all run around, scared of random colours, odd-shaped vegetables and the length of words”

I can’t leave my desk without feeling like I have to check I am all covered. The funny thing is (well it’s not funny at all) is that I bet there is actually a name for that kind of fear. I am sure when my nan was little there were not half as many ‘named’ fears as there are now.

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