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  Have you ever held you urine for a long time and on the sight of a means of convenience it seemed liked your bladder would burst that very second? Likewise when you hold your bowel movement for a long period of time... I bet you have.  So, what really happens at that moment? Science explains that at the sight of a means of convenience the brain tends to release it's control on the external urethral sphincter.  The bladder has two sphincters, internal and external which guard it's exit. The internal sphincter is entirely under the influence of the autonomic nervous system while the external sphincter is under the influence of the conscious mind (cerebral cortex), even when the full and the internal sphincter is opened we could still control our urination by our influence on the external sphincter. But there is something rather strange about this phenomenon that makes us suddenly lose control of that sphincter when we see a place of convenience. Could it ...

American college basketball player, coach and broadcaster, Jim Valvano, wrote, "life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain, so seize this day, seize this moment and make the most of it". With his words and more in mind, I have come to realize that the futures uncertainty though scary, is and will still be what I make of it and what I do with the time I have on my hands. Yes! Things may happen, from subtle and sad life changes to life threatening and ultimately fatal experiences, I can never know for certain or even imagine what life holds for me any moment from now. And as the years go by I have come to think and worry less about it and this is not due to the fact that I myself am not scared or because I simply don't care. It's because of a single word, Trust . I've come to realize that Trust is letting go of not just the things I can't control as people will have you think, but even the things I think I have control over, cause come to...

In our last post we saw a few people share their feelings and stories on depression,  now I think it's right we look at ways of tackling this menace, depression, after all it's not to be taken lightly. There has been countless incidence, especially since the dawn of the 21st century of people committing suicides and self-harming as a result of depression and so depression is an issue that should be taking very seriously, we should spend time talking about it and creating awareness about it as much as we can. (see wikipedia for more on Self-harm  ) Its also important not to forget that sadness and despair are normal feeling's anyone can have, and so should not always be associated with depression. Prolonged feelings of sadness due to stress, loss of a loved one, disappointment or major life changes can bring about such normal feelings.  We are only human after all. As long as you have times when you experience and truly enjoy things, and you can still see hope and light in...

 Depression: a single word with weight like a ton of metal, weighing down on the heart, weighing down on the soul.  We can explain depression as a clinical disease or something that should be diagnosed, but it is far deep than that.  To think depression has a definite explanation or cure, is to not know depression at all.  You know, it starts out different for each one of us, sometimes we associate it with feelings of love, hate, anger, sadness, and emotions we can't even name.  Other times it's simply unexplained, the answer to the question of  'what is wrong' or 'why the sad look', is often met with a blank reply, a shrug here or the commonest reply: 'i'm fine'.  How do we even begin to answer what we don't know ourselves. At that moment, when all we can see is dark, when all we know is that terrible feeling of hopelessness, yes! that's it, hopelessness. A feeling of loss at live's many joys. There's an absence of Joy and love in ou...