How to Make Things Larger Than What They Actually Are - Creativity? Eh!

Ha.. ha.. ha.. I like this discussion thread... :D You know, all through our lives we come across so many people - some radiate positive/optimistic energies while others negative/pessimistic energies. I for one hate negative people. I mean, they just can't stop complaining about anything & everything around them. Your friend sounds like a negative fellow. He is probably right about the fact that "doctors today work for money".. But, come on, we don't need to hear that when we are suffering from some sickness or, as in your case, high BP.. :)

How true!Sometimes , a casual remark in the affirmative sets a trigger of statements and counter statements and this blows into a big discussion on a trivial matter.The more you discuss it, the more intense the lightest of things become. All of us fall prey to this sometime or the other .We need to make a conscious effort not to get carried away and must steer back the conversation to some other light topic.

Are you sure it was 120/172? Did you check it at home in your own BPApparatus? Sometimes the reading can be Wrong.What medicine and treatment did the doctor advise?

My dear friend, and little bro', I am so glad that occasion is behind you...and I truly do pray, that this encounter will have you look at your precarious health...especially your blood pressure, as an issue that you and ONLY YOU MUST and can control, starting with your environment! It is time to evaluate the negatives/positives, for you and align yourself only, with those that evolve positive re-inforcement! You must make yourself completely aware of the foibles, in this world that create inner stress..and keep yourself absent from those situations! Being unaware of the Medical system, in your country, I am not sure I am readint the Blood Pressure correctly! With my past training as a Paramedic, blood pressure was one of the signs and symptoms heavily relied on in the field! I am guessing that here it would be recorded 172 over 120! The 172 being the highest pressure (systolic)..and 120 being the lowest pressure or diastolic! Both, of your readings put you in the highly treatable scope! I am especially noting the diastolic pressure! There are several issues I plainly see here, during your visit, your blood pressure should have been taken at least 3 times in 15 minutes! That is to establish a baseline..and environmental fluctuations! At play also, here, is a phenomena called "white-coat syndrome"..the innate buried fear of doctors and what they are going to find! PLUS your Blood Pressure should have been taken SITTING...and then reposing, resting as in bed! AND the worst dang thing, I find here, is THAT Dr. let you walk away stressing over your BP! A sensitive Dr., in this case lies by omission..NOT letting you know the readings of your last test..but saying things like "Aha, that's better!" Even if it's a few points in their reading...THAT is positive reinforcement..and goes a long way to STOP you stressing and spiking your blood pressure. I HOPE I am making sense! IN a nutshell, what I am suggesting, it is TIME, for reflection upon your friends, and spend MUCH LESS time with those that create negativity and stressful environment...create positive environments...and get another Dr.'s opinion, and insist upon minimum 3 readings in a 15 min period! I have been for 3 years, on BP meds., (Metoprolol, Ramipril & Hydrochlorothiazide) and by living in a more positive environment, thinking more positively, taking time to smell the roses...My last BP, two weeks ago..was 120/65..and the Dr. related, that of a "teenager!" AND, I am being tapered OFF my meds (No meds shud be abruptly stopped)! It is possible thru healthy diet and healthy environment to be the winner here....and truly, I hate to brag, but was very pleased (as I was able to accomplish this with the mucousal cancer hanging over my head!) I think I have missed the point of your discussion, sorry...but WAS so concerned with your health...(can't stop being a Mother)! For "peace of mind" are you able to purchase a "sphygmometer"...and you will be able to see those situations that spike your BP?

Since your blood pressure was already high, talking to you about things that were pleasant might have helped your blood pressure come down. Talking about things that upset you more could have killed you or at least put your blood presssure really high. Probably, since she wasn't there, the Doctor was being honest about the amount of time it would take her to get there since she apparently wasn't right next door. When a person's blood pressure is that high here, thhe Dr. tells you to call and ambulance and go to the hospital. My brother, B, is superhuman. He was sawing a tree underpressure. The tree was almost as wide as he is. The tree sprung back and hit him. He bit hhis tongue almost off. He ws laying under the tree and rolled it off him. He dragged himself to a little minivehicle that has a small engine like a riding lawnmower. He drove himself uphill to his house. He had his girlfriend call an ambulance. At the hosptial, the Drs. said all his organs were shutting down, there was nothing they could do. He looked at them like they were crazy. Other than his tongue almsot bit off and everything in his body aching, he felt fine. They upset him so much his blood pressure went ski high. But he didn't die. They had to sew his tongue back together. One by one his organs started back up. To this day, he has high blood pressure and diabetes because everything isn't what it was. He probably had a technical heart attack (when you get hit in the chest out of rhythum of the natural beat or he might still have kidney damage) and his pancreas is not working like it was. But he's alive. They'd never seen anyone have everything but his/her brain shut down and have everything start back up again. But he's amazed Drs. repeatedly thruout his life. He broke his foot, they put a pin in and said it would be there all his life. Less than a year later, they took it out. He fell into a barbecue pit with hot coals. He stood up and the coals were stuck to him. The coals were taken off and he wouldn't let anyone take him to the hosptial or the Drs. He was a little kid and he held off the entire fire department. My Mom sprayed bactene (a spray that kills pain) repeatedly for two days. Finally, he let her take him to the Drs. The Doctor yelled at my Mom,"Why didn't you bring him here 5 days ago?" "Because it didn't happen until two days ago and you don't know his superhuman strength. He took on the entire fire department and won!" He had 5 days worth of healing in just a little over 2 days. Repeatedly he amazes people. I went to someone's house and they said he told B he could have all the metal in the barrel. Instead of using a winch or taking the metal out one item at a time, he just picked up the entire barrel and put it on the back of his truck. He said, "There had to be a 1/4 to 1/2 ton of parts in that barrel and he picked it up like it was nothing." He was only 18. My brother flipped his El Camino ( a small truck car). He crawled out of it, asked a neighbor if he could put it on the lawn so no one could hit it. He dragged it to the neighbor's lawn. Walked home which was over a mile. Drove the truck and a ramp kind of thing back. Flipped the el camino. dragged it onto the ramp, drove it home and wondered why hsi back hurt. I kid you not. He was in his twenties. He's in his 40s now and his body is pretty well beat-up. He can't do those things any more, but the fact that he's still here is amazing. The tree thing was in his early 40s. He is known as the guy who was, and in some ways is, superhuman. Considering you're still here and all that you've been through, you're probably superhuman, too. Just not so some people would notice. To survive the person who was helping you, you probably had to be superhuman! Peace and love, and get some kind of good health in there, too. Take care, my friend.

Hi thesids, Eat some celery please, that helps for reducing high blood! You know if we want to get off topic, I could talk about celery the whole of this discussion, how good they are for your health, and how easy it is to prepare but then at the end of it, I will tell you I hate celery, and my blood pressure is actually on the low side, so I can't really take it. Now am I creative enough? Many people I know through work are complainers, they whine about the slightest things, and think that they are the most unlucky people in the world, but actually I find that these people, some of them are very rich and more fortunate than many people. They just do not appreciate it! Grrrr! On the other hand, some people I met in interest groups are much better. They are fun and interesting and can add value to our conversations. Some people provide a lot of entertainment and knowledge and people swarm to them. I guess what makes a person successful is what the person likes to talk about. Nobody likes to be around negative people and it is better to emit positive energy.

I know lots of people who look for the negative, rather than the positive. I grew up around people like that. I mostly do not have that problem, but I will get busy planning things and make them more complicated and, as you say larger. My kids, and others who know me say that I am "making an elephant" out of things. Again, I grew up in a family where my mother did that a lot. It is so much nicer to just relax and enjoy a simple moment. I personally think it was nice that your doctor called to let you know when she could be expected. We do not often get that courtesy here.

Hi Bhai! I hope you are feeling better. You didn't write me! How am I suppose to help you feel better and keep an eye on you for Bahu if you don't write! Do I know someone who can make things seem worse than it really is? Yes, it's me!!I have always looked for the worse to happen , especially to me. For my friends I have all the hope in the world. So I wouldn't have brought more stress to you by bad mouthing your doctor!

All of us can be these people.Our subconcious mind is very powerful that whatever we think & feel will manifest in our experience.It's just sad that most people think of the worst all the time & that's what they get.

We have so many choices to 'assume' things but just as your friend most think of the worst assumption. Thinking positive is good for us. I have a friend whose middle name is 'negative'. Her son said to her that she need not cook for them but they will eat out while spending a few days at hers. Instead of thinking of the consideration her son has for her she felt that her son's decision to eat out was because they did not like her food!

that s a height diastolic and usually i known those who have hotblooded pressure have higher systolic. anyway, you have already check up and hopefully, the physician already give you list of medicine to take your blood pressure back to normal. any symptoms accompany that trigger your high blood pressure should be avoided, in this way you would live longer and have healthier life together with your loved ones..

So here i am, laughing because i'm lost in this discussion. Lawyers are the same too by the way lol! Of course everybody is in for the money and they would do anything for the money. I'm just hoping that they won't misdiagnose because of the money hahaha! Sorry Sid, right now my mind aint working right at all. I seem to have lost my brain somewhere. Gotta go and look for it before my dogs grab it first. And yeah my dogs have super natural power. They drain the money out of my pocket without touching it!

Haha! Your friend sounds very much like my mother, buddy! And sometimes mom would even want others to react or agree to what she wants to say,lol! well,sometimes I would make some eye contacts to my mom signaling that she should just stop the "commotion" but hey,she has super natural powers,as what you have said,lol! There are times mom has a point but she wants it to go bang! As in she wanted the person she is talking about to hear her side. And since mom is old,the person just ignores her..but what if not! Oh my! With regards to your doctor,I understand why doctors are sometimes late to their clinic. Our family doctor has lots of clinics to attend to in a day and it will greatly depend on the number of patients she is going to have in one clinic station,that's the reason why sometimes she can't come on time. I hope you're feeling okay now buddy,take care!

Hi thesids, Hope your BP is normal now and you are feeling much better. It is a kind gesture of the doctor to have informed you about her late arrival. Even if they are money minded, we need them to treat us and understand our body/health issues. The situations make us frustrated and that result in making things more complicated. No doubt there are people blessed with this talent of negative energy and they talk as if they are being awarded to talk like that. Also ‘make a mountain out of a mole’ is habitual I suppose for persons and for others in your list (politicians etc...) its their food for thought. I don’t know anyone with this talent but yes my husband is good when it comes to criticizing someone. ….especially my cooking. LOL Oh, I would suggest the next time take someone who can boost you up when you visit the doctor or call someone who can talk pleasant and beautiful sides of life. Take care.

Dear Sidhu, Sorry for being late and I hope you are feeling better now. Forget about your friend’s attitude, I think in that time you needed somebody’s help as your BP is so high. Take rest well dear brother and do mylot once you become completely alright.. Get well soon.

hi the sids friends like that blow things out of proportion/ when I got to my doctors and he c alled and apoloized for being late as he had had to do an emergency surgery I took him for what he said as e had been my doctor for years. I hate it when friends trying I guess to feel for you just make things more grim.I would have told him well she was very thoughtful in letting me know she would be late. I always try to think the best of others unless of course i am proven wrong.You are so right,you and your friend could instead have talked about your families and your jobs, anything more productive than just blowing things out of proportions.

hemmm...supernatural person huh..??? * thinking so hard* i know some officer in the government department who supposed to be serving the people but loves to serve them selves. for example, actually it shouldn't to take a long time to make renewal of our identity card. but they just love to say, please come back again tomorrow as they can do it right away

Hi thesids!! There so seem to ne a lot of talented people out there that have the ability to make things larger and more complicated than what they are or have to be. It must be exhausting to put that much time and energy into it, but like you said, they must be supernatural. I haven't the energy for that either my friend.

There are always those who turn molehills into mountains. I prefer those who do the reverse. As for this doctor, at least the doctor called. My sister went to an appointment, waited two hours and THEN was told the doctor would be a couple of more hours late. She cancelled the appointment and went to another doctor, who is much better about letting customers know what is happening, such as emergency surgery, etc.

sids..may be, at times, I do. Ok..it is just his frustration. Now you are making it larger than life too.