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Peat moss question
I have a 15 gal tank and im trying to lower the ph levels. I currently use a sponge filter. Can i just put peat moss in a media bag and put it directly in the tank? or do i need a hob or canister filter?
Yes you can. But be prepared for tannins leaching into the water from the peat. It will turn your water tea-colored, but many people like that and it doesn't bother the fish.
But why use peat ? What's your pH now and why do you feel the need to lower it ?
But if you really want to use peat, to produce soft, acidic water, remember to change it out for fresh new peat every few weeks, as it can lose it's effectiveness.
i honestly would suggest pre-treating your water change water. Peat makes a MESS. A dirty soupy mess, and I am one that loves tannins.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
On working. And sleeping. Mostly sleeping..
I've been in work for about 10 months. I think. One of the most difficult challenges at the moment is that I can't think properly. That's fine when it just lasts for a couple of days; but this has been months. More months than I can count without losing track. I know it was October things started to really slide, but my brain won't function sufficiently to work out the months between then and now.
I did start picking up a bit. But then I went to London for work, the taxi I was travelling in hit a pothole and I ended up stuck in a London hotel room with spinal dislocations and whiplash. Then, well, it's winter. So I got a bug. Then a chest infection. Then the bug just didn't clear. Somewhere in all the middle of that it was Christmas and New Year. Apart from a brief few hours with family, they went pretty unremarked. Mostly because of the 'when can I sleep again' thing. Did I mention the sleep thing?
The narrative surrounding work is that its good for you, good for your health even. I'd like to believe that. I'm sure its true for many people. Work has definitely been good for my mental health. I absolutely love my job. Working with Gary Bourlet and the other self advocates we've supported is a pleasure and enormous privilege. It gets results too. One of Gary and Shaun's ideas was warmly received by the Employment Minister who is looking into possibilities of making it work.
So yes, the job is great. My colleagues are fantastic. I'm employed on an incredibly flexible set up. I can't imagine a better employer. In theory I have the freedom to work whenever I want, so long as I get my 16 hours a week done. And of course I don't have to do them all in the one week. But the convoluted tax credits vs means test benefits rules mean I can't reduce them to say, 10 hours a week. Then I'd have to go back onto ESA. And then apply for permitted work. Politicians talk alot about how Universal Credit will be the answer to all this. But then Universal Credit functions about as well as my spine. So I shan't hold my breath.
Which was all ok. But then it was summer and I had a bit more energy. And the upper spinal dislocations weren't quite as bad at that point. But they are now. Just holding my own head up is hard work. I've seen babies with better head control than I've got. And after months of failing to be able to find the right words, to not be able to write, or to even think coherently..they're sort of coming back. A bit.
And as it turned out, there are certain types of brain damage that go hand in hand with the kind of spinal trauma I'm regularly experiencing. So having wandered around muttering "I've got brain damage" for months might've been more accurate than I'd thought.
When I tell people how hard this is, how at the moment all that's keeping me going is the thought that if it all gets too bad I can go back on ESA, but that I really do love my job. They say that's sad.
But they don't really understand. Not any of the work is good for you people. How can anyone possibly understand what this is like without being in a similar situation. Or how, even with the most supportive employer in the world, how the pressure just increases as you fall further behind the tasks you need to do, but your brain just will not work sufficiently to order or achieve anything. My employers don't put any pressure on me. But its there. Inside me. And there is an election on the way. That sort of imposes another timetable on everything.
Because we all want to believe that work is good for people. And in lots of cases it is. Apart from when it isn't. Even when I'm doing well and feeling ok, I'm managing work by not wasting spoons on anything else. Including washing and dressing. I am not convinced that is good for me. Its certainly not good for the people around me. But given I'm so exhausted I don't want to see, speak to or do anything, the dodgy smell is less of an issue than it could be.
There's alot of talk amongst disabled campaigners about moving from the Support Group to work. The holy grail for everyone is 'flexible working'. I know, I spent years believing that if I could just get the right job, with the right set up, then working would be possible.
And it sort of is. So long as I do absolutely nothing else in my life. So long as I use my 4 or so functional hours each day on nothing but work. This weekend, thinking I was getting better I went out for a few daytime hours. It was the first time since the London whiplash incident. The outside felt jarring, surreal. I went to a meeting, which if I'm honest was more work than not work, then went to bed. The next day I met an old friend for coffee. Then I went to bed. Then I started projectile vomiting. And it didn't stop. Splatter pattern ratings were assigned. As ever, when vomiting, the force pulled at my spine. All the good work my physio had done two days before was undone.
Spoonydoc has written this excellent piece in response to the current discussion about moving straight from the support group to full time work. It really is excellent, so do read it. But I can't remember the point I was trying to make anymore. I've been writing for 20 minutes or so, and awake for an hour. I'm so tired nothing will keep straight in my head. I need to go back to bed. But I also really do need to use some spoons on getting clean. The post vomit smell is bad enough for a day. Beyond that, its beyond rank.
But showering takes energy. Energy I simply don't have.
What I need is just to turn everything off. For months. To sleep as much as I need, to focus on the routine of getting washed. At least more days than not getting washed. To eat well, to spend time on physio. To try and find some form of exercises that will assist my feckless, workshy neck muscles to remember why they exist and hold my bloody head up for me.
But that's the key difference between paid work and being on an incapacity type benefit. Even if you're doing lots of voluntary work..voluntary is just that. When you need to focus on your health more than anything for an undefined period...well, you can. You have an income to allow you to do so. Sure, its not much, but unless you've also got an enormous debt, it is usually enough to keep a roof over your head, have enough to eat and pay the bills.
Other people tell me this is really sad. I already know that. I live it. I live with the sadness of never having the energy to do anything. Of knowing that I'm constantly irritable and unpleasant to be around. With the fear that what I'm doing to my body will ultimately result in a spinal dislocation so severe the cognitive impairments it causes will never go. That the voice loss won't come back. Oh and the quadriplegia risk.
I love my job. I quite like working really. Or I think I do when I'm not so exhausted. I certainly love the work Gary and I do. I must do. I don't do anything else.
But please, don't make the mistake of thinking that this is easy. Or that work really is good for everyone's health, we just need to think of work differently. Because frankly, that just isn't reality for some of us.
There was probably meant to be some sort of concluding thought to this. But I can't remember it. And I need to go back to bed.
12 comments:
- Liz@jesslinworld said...
I am so sad to hear thus, though I have been aware of the struggle you were having. I agree with you that the pressure of even a (for most people) small amount of work can be too much. You need to use your energy to keep yourself well and keep your relationships and life going.
I know, also from personal experience, how hard it is to judge how much we can do. A couple of good days and all sorts of things seem possible, only to fall to pieces the next day. So frustrating.
When I had to go off sick from work as the mental and physical stress of the job was too much, I was taken aback to receive a letter from HR extolling the virtues of work and telling me how good it was for my health!
You shouldn't feel bad if you have to give up this job. You havereally given it your best and a long time of feeling under par. You still have a great contribution to make as a campaigner. Lovecliz
- 10:33 am
- Clivegsd said...
I will laugh my balls off if you get past as fit for work by Maximus at any time in the future
- 11:49 am
- bluehook said...
Have you heard of sick leave? I have a work ethic that says I must not take sick leave unless I'm flat on my back in hospital. And I was last October so was forced to take time off, and not just because there's no wi-fi or 3G in that particular hospital, but because I could not sit on a chair without agonising pain from my self-inflicted bulging disc. I had to take a few more weeks after I self discharged for reasons I won't go into, because of the sitting up problem. And I thought I'd start back after the festive season which wasn't very festive as I spent it lying flat on my face on a deconstructed children's bunk bed, watching Netflix through the bars on the end of the bed. But I still can't handle it and now I'm on a guilt trip and taking it out of my annual leave allocation. So, the point of all that bla... is this: go to your doctor and get a 'fit not' for a month and clean up the vomit, have a shower and sleep as much as you need. If at the end of the month you still feel as bad as you do now, rethink, but I'm betting you'll feel at least somewhat better. Give it a go because, as we both know, jobs like this don't come along that often, I know how fortunate I am to have a job that gives me similiar flexibility and a really understanding employer. If I have to give this up I know I'd succumb to depression and then... well, who knows.
- 11:56 am
- Ron Graves said...
For vastly different reasons we seem to have a great many similar health problems.
Two things I know for sure, having been disabled all my life, and seriously disabled (as in unable to work, shower, bathe, etc) for 30 years. 1. work can be advantageous psychologically. 2.But physically, work can kill you. It almost killed me.
These days, even my own blog is too much for me to cope with most of the time. Gone are the days when I could churn out half a dozen posts a day - now I'm lucky to manage 3 or 4 a week, and short ones at that.
Listen to your body. Advice I should have taken much earlier.
- 12:48 pm
- The Goldfish said...
Yes, the "perfect job" is the one which somehow can afford you to be inactive for random indefinite periods. I so feel for you having this bad patch, with all its fear and uncertainty, stretch on through the winter. In a way, life is harder when your condition gives you better periods, when possibilities do open up, and then it's scarier and more infuriating than ever when you have a slump. It's also immensely difficult to express that there are better and worse periods when your better periods look nothing like healthy.
There's absolutely no doubt that fulfilling work can be great for people. But it's like exercise - no argument that exercise is really really good for people's bodies, brains and well-being, but not everyone can do it at all, not everyone can do it all the time and not everyone can do it without avoiding dreadful consequences.
Thinking of you, K. Hope you're keeping warm and as comfortable as possible and that things improve really soon.
- 1:32 pm
Thinking of you too. You're one of the reasons why I'm still able to work almost full time - your blog helped me to articulate my issues to doctors, and I managed to get the support I needed before it was too late. I'm really sorry that you have it so tough. Your work, paid and unpaid, has already achieved so much that if you retired from paid work and blogging tomorrow, your 'human wellbeing footprint' would be bigger than most other people's. I hope you find the time it takes to get some real rest.
- 4:41 am
- Kayla said...
Something that was said to me years ago... No employer is ever grateful to an employee for destroying their health in order to do their job. No one will thank you for breaking yourself for them.
If you can take sick leave or annual leave for a few weeks and just *splat* on the couch/bed to recover spoons, then try it. See how things go after that. If things don't improve, then you've given it a good shot.
You've proven, for those of us who always said it, work is not necessarily good for you. Where this idea came from... it's fucking stupid. They look at us, with our fucked up bodies and fucked up minds, most of us in so much pain that life is a blur of "when can I take more drugs?" and "Oh gods, can I go to bed now?" And they say "Oh, if you got a job you'd feel so much better!" or "maybe you should try going to the gym!" Oh, just fuck right off with that crap.
How about looking at us and respecting that perhaps, just perhaps, we might actually know what the fuck we can and can't do after years of pushing ourselves to past the point of breaking just to try to live a "normal" life.
Where was I? Oh yes... I'm sure you know this but I'll say it again anyway... take it easy; rest; try to recover; take some time off if you can; if you are still breaking, if your spine & central nervous system are still fucking you about, then regretfully it may be time to say "I did my best but work is not good for me, even with lots of help." I hope you are able to return to it, for your sake, I know you enjoy it and I remember how happy you were at the prspect of the job. Good luck.
- 10:41 am
- bluehook said...
Just a thought but maybe you need your doctor to take some blood and check things like kidney and thyroid function, B1 and B12 and anything else that a real doctor would know might be causing some of your symptoms.
- 1:17 pm
errrr yes B1 and B12 are excellent, as are others, as I know as a health nut. However, STRESS is the killer, and most of us are under unbearable - yes, UNBEARABLE stress.
- 8:48 pm
absolutely! stress IS the killer,and most of us are under unbearable - yes, UNBEARABLE stress.
:) 100 lines, ha ha, that might get it through.
who is listening, though? :(
- 9:24 pm
- Tantalus said...
Go easy on yourself Khaliya. Your employer knew about your condition when they employed you. Don't feel bad about what you haven't done but feel good about all that you have got done. I see you popping up in lots of places and you provide a unique and incisive take on the situations and issues you tackle.
Sometimes we are our own most damning critics.
I recently read that day dreaming and having time to drift is when people get their best ideas and are most creative.
So treat the down time as an opportunity to let your body and brain simmer and fertilise itself. You may surprise yourself with how productive you are once you have a well deserved rest.
Hope you feel better soon.
- 5:06 pm
- Tantalus said...
Be kind to yourself. You were taken on and employed with the knowledge that you had a debilitating illness.
Use the downtime to let your body and mind rest. I recently read that people have their best ideas and are most creative when they give themselves time to day-dream.
Celebrate what you have done. We are often our own harshest critics. We expect much more from ourselves than is humanly possible. I've seen you popping up in all sorts of places doing valuable and interesting work. You provide a unique perspective and are who you are not just despite of your condition but because of it.
You are not a robot!
Look forward to hearing from you again soon.
- 5:11 pm


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The pre-hearing conference at the California Public Utilities Commission was held to lay out a plan for future hearings in the San Onofre case.
The facility's two massive reactors have been shut down since Jan. 31 after one of the steam generators sprang a leak and released traces of radiation.
The leak occurred because of excessive vibration and friction among tubes that carry radioactive water through the plant's steam generators.
Investigators determined that a botched computer analysis resulted in design flaws that were largely to blame for unprecedented wear in the tubes.
The generators were designed and manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
San Onofre's closure forced SCE to rely on the restart of two natural gas-fired plants in Huntington Beach and increased energy conservation among ratepayers to make up for lost power.
Edison has submitted a plan to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to restart Unit 2, but environmental groups are firmly against it.
"I think it amounts to an experiment with the lives of 9million people who live within 50 miles of the plant," said Martha Sullivan, a grassroots organizer with the Coalition to Decommission San Onofre. "And we've been paying for this plant for almost a year when it hasn't even been in operation."
SCE is facing a state review of costs related to the long-running outage. Some fear it could leave customers or shareholders with a huge bill for repairs and replacement power - a figure that had already reached $165million at midyear.
Women's Energy Matters, a lobbyist group that showed up at Tuesday's meeting, is calling for SCE to use San Onofre's outage as an opportunity to advance a clean energy agenda using solar power and other renewable energy sources.
CPUC spokesman Andrew Kotch said the San Onofre proceedings will move forward in four phases. The first will focus on what occurred as well as expenses incurred in 2012 at the plant.
The second phase will look at replacement power costs for 2012. The third will look at replacement costs for the steam generators, and the fourth will examine 2013 power replacement expenses in the event the plant is not brought back online.
"Administrative Law Judge Melanie Darling established at the beginning of the hearing that this proceeding's intent is to look at costs and operational expenses related to the SONGS shutdown and will not consider license renewal, which is the NRC's responsibility," Kotch said in an email.
Darling and Commissioner Michael Florio will determine a time frame for the various phases and appropriate activities, he said.
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In October, SCE President Ron Litzinger said he felt Unit 2 was ready for action at reduced power.
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Safin and Federer in rematch
Old foes Marat Safin and Roger Federer (pictured here on day three of the Australian Open) will go toe-to-toe again in an intriguing third-round encounter.
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IT WILL be remembered as one of the great matches at Melbourne Park.
Roger Federer went into the Australian Open semi-final in 2005 on a 26-match winning streak. The Swiss had won three of the four grand slam tournaments in 2004, and was at the peak of his powers.
He came across Marat Safin, the big, grumpy Russian bear who was known to be dangerous at his best. But Federer breezed through the first set and the result seemed to be a foregone conclusion. Then Safin fought back, for he is no one's idea of a shrinking violet.
Federer held a match point in the fourth set, Safin lobbed him and Federer tried a dinky shot between his legs as he chased back to the baseline. It found the net, Safin won the set, and endured 9-7 in the fifth on his way to the title, his second grand slam after the 2000 US Open, back when he was the new face of the game and the No. 1 player in the world. Safin remembers Federer getting "scared" in that fifth set, not going for his shots. "I guess I was more aggressive than him."
They have history, these two, (Federer also towelled Safin in the final here in 2004) and another chapter is about to be written. Following second-round wins yesterday, Safin and Federer will confront each other in a third-round match tomorrow that will have the box office humming.
Safin, 28 and close to 29, never quite made it to the lofty status predicted for him.
Consensus says that he smashed too many racquets 300 by his own estimate and uttered too many oaths against himself and others in Russian, Spanish and English, his three languages, to have flourished any more.
A quick search on YouTube for some of his tantrums is always entertaining, especially the one where he crushes not only his racquet but the umpire's chair.
Instructively, the fans were queueing up outside Margaret Court Arena yesterday for his match against Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, and not all of them got inside. With Safin, it's not just the big serve and the peerless backhand you go to see; it's the chance of a train wreck. Professional tennis tends to turn athletes into automatons grinding it out for their weekly pay cheque, but Safin is no machine.
Federer, of course, has achieved everything bar the grand slam and has Safin 9-2 in head-to-head battles. "He (Federer) got much more confident throughout the years, and I had to recover from injury," said Safin. "So I want to be in his shoes. But anyway, it's our lives. (Just) part of our lives."
The Swiss managed to change his wayward ways. "We're different personalities," said Federer. "Although we were kind of the same growing up. I sort of chilled out; he kept on going!"
They come from different places this time. Safin, who is possibly playing in his last Australian Open, says he is keen to do something different with his life. In truth, he always looked like the whole treadmill of the circuit did not agree with him. Nowadays, he says, he plays without pressure because younger players like Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic get the attention.
"They're much younger, more hungry," he said. "Probably they have much more confidence than me, which is normal. I'm 28, 29 soon. They are 20 years old, making finals left and right on the tournament. So it's a little bit tougher to compete against them because they're just full of confidence and they're hungry. They're going for it. They're not scared."
Federer has been dethroned by Rafael Nadal and is trying to find another grand slam title to catch Pete Sampras at 14, still pushing hard. Safin is not fooled by the computer rankings. "For me, he's No. 1," said the Russian yesterday.
Safin revealed no histrionics yesterday. Seeded 26th, he took almost a set to cuss at himself and did not smash a single racquet. At 5-5 in the first it was a stalemate, and Safin flicked some switch in his head. He broke Garcia-Lopez, served it out, then broke him again early in the second. There was no coming back for the Spaniard.
Safin won 7-5, 6-2, 6-2, serving 18 aces and making fewer errors (23) than he hit winners (31). Federer was largely unchallenged by Russia's Evgeny Korolev on Rod Laver Arena, winning his second-rounder 6-2, 6-3, 6-1, almost playful at times.
All of which brings two of the modern greats back together.
"I have nothing to worry about," said Safin. "I'm going to play my match. We know each other pretty well."
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Back in the regular routine birks? I should have got yesterday's lyrics - have fond memories of the Warehouse Club in Leeds and that record.
Glad you got the MG sorted Blisters.
Good news on the legs Alehouse.
What: probably nothing
Why: still balancing recovery/training
Last hard: taking so many rest days
Last rest: 25/9
Lyrics - could do.
Morning LMH
Yeah getting there, cheers.
morning all
Ale - no offence meant. Can't help but always get an image of the late Keith Weller and his white tights when I think about Leicester.
VLM - naturally got my rejection yesterday. 21 years, 20 applications, 5 acceptances, one of which was on the old "5 rejects and you're in" scheme & 1 deferral. There are of course other marathons, plus my club's ballot.
what - easy run
why - recovery day, plus swimming club champs for youngest (day 1 of 3). Think I'm timekeeping most of the weekend.
last rest - Saturday
last hard - yesterdays tempo is still in the legs.
should have got yesterdays lyric, pretty sure I know todays.
And no offence taken, Dustin!
Lyrics: familiar. So that's no. And I, also, should have got yesterday's.
What: almost certainly rest. A 10 to 15 min run at most.
Why: Working on the kitchen (new gas pipes need to be under the floor boards in the next hour or so) and then off to work with the little ones for the afternoon. And taking care of my legs.
Paddy: what do you know of the Ballycotton 10, if anything (or anyone else for that matter). At Ron's race on Wednesday was talking with John Walshe who had come over for the race. Friendly and helpful guy. Came over with a couple of others that I was chatting with.
What: rest
Why: 7miles yesterday evening with JS and on call all this weekend.
Ankle smouldering so nothing major before Monday
Last rest Wednesday
Last Hard: Langdale HMLyrics: no
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Hi guys,
thought I'd wish everyone a nice weekend and good luck if anyone is racing
Went to the neuro surgeon yesterday and he's confident that some physio will sort me, so hopefully no need for those horrid steroid injections. He also said I could run, albeit gently and probably no 20 milers right now but running will not make the disc slip any further. Whereas wrong stretches and forward bending will. So those are things to avoid.
Onwards and upwards. I am hoping to go out later to try a little run. I shall report.
Hope it goes well chickadee.
OH - is the ankle feeling any better? Might have been wise to have rested up yesterday in order to ensure that last LSR - but 20/20 hindsight is a great thing.
Sounds like you'll be kept busy for the weekend Dustin.
Hope you got the pipe laid in time Alehouse.
Despite finishing work early and it being a gorgeous afternoon the sensible head prevailed and I have rested.
Just 4.3 miles today, 31 minutes. A nice run in lovely mild early evening conditions. Duty weekend at work so staying close by!! Should have known yesterdays lyrics. Dont know todays.
6.5 miles d&d.
4 miles yesterday.
Coming back together now.
Ale I've ran Ballycotton quite a few times. I have my 10 mile PB and PW there. John is a great fella - I know him but he wouldn't know me. He works tirelessly for this and other races in his series. The organisation at Ballycotton is fantastic, its the best value race in Ireland - Price is the best around for a ten miler. It has a few drawbacks though - the start is very narrow and if you don't get a good start you can get held up. Parking is a bit of a disaster if you don't arrive early/ know the area. They have Park & Ride available which personally I'm not mad about as you are way from your "mobile base". The course is fast and flat but for the first mile which is downhill and the last which is uphill. Its a "spoon shape" 3 miles out, 4 mile loop, 3 miles back. There is a great atmosphere around the race. A good few travel from the UK for it. It really is one to do if you can, but accommodation/ travel must be planned well!!!
Ballycotton 10 one on my list one day
Hi all not run all week but not surprising as been at work all week Christmas is all finished got the night off tonight but in again Sunday night so will try a little run tomorrow work mon & tues then off for 10 days
lyrics no
Mmmm. Wondering aloud if I will be able to run ten miles by next March!
Hello Pammie! Consistent consistency remember!!
Hi all,
Lyrics - No
What 5.25m at lunch
Why - Took the opportunity at work
Last hard - Yesterday
Last rest Tues and Weds
Take care


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NEW YORK—An article in the N.Y. Times last Friday, under the heading "Army Scientists May Quit Kitchen," makes it clear, I think, how foolish certain things in the draft have become.
It seems that qualified scientists have been doing KP duty. Now with great virtue the Army announces through its Adjutant General, in a report to a Congressman who had complained about this, that it is reviewing its policy and it may see its way clear to allow scientists who held important positions in civilian life to return to those positions when they cannot be used in the Army on work that is of value in their particular line. The Congressman evidently had "thoroughly documented information" that 53 engineers at the Aberdeen, Maryland proving ground were spending an average of 22 percent of their time in such chores as washing dishes and standing guard.
For a long time I have been saying that we in the United States wasted human material, and this particular report points up the kind of waste which has been going on. I complain more often about the fact that our taxpayers are willing to let certain young people who should obtain higher education lose out because of economic reasons. It is unfortunate for the youngsters, but far more unfortunate for the country as a whole. This is one of the areas in which our country must face the Soviet challenge. They use their manpower better than we do. They waste very little; and it is high time that we did review, as the Army promises to do in this instance, our whole defense program.
This also points up the need to ask our doctors to devise a method whereby everyone will get the medical care he needs from pre-natal care on, regardless of ability to pay. This is part of the defense of our country, yet it is one of the areas in which we have been most wasteful of our human material. Study should be going on in all fields so that this waste can be eliminated.
I have been asked to point out, since I mentioned the fact that there was a considerable amount of unemployment, that there is need of more occupational therapists and that this is a profession where young people can be sure of finding a job. However, it does require long training and better pay to attract those capable of taking the training.


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