Welcome to this Sunday’s Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. Today we target: Wounds and Bleeding
While tempted to treat the labor use of the term “scab” (see Jack London’s odious “Ode to a Scab” to satisfy the urge), do wounds and bleeding abound that require emergency attention?
Does that wound attention entail the Boy Scout, first aid immediacy of: Stopping the bleeding, protecting the wound and preventing shock?
What about the aftermath?
What do to with those who find it irresistible, even rewarding, to pick at scabs or engage in dermatillomania also known as skin picking disorder (SPD) under the general category of obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCDs)?
Is that information welcome fillip to today’s interrogative pursuit?
In any event, is permanent scarring or wound aggravation, including more bleeding, a likely result of all that?
How is healing to be expected when old wounds are aggravated by constant picking?
Is there a happy hormone release (all 4?) or economic reward that provides prick and pick motivation?
Have career fields developed and been championed whereby Determined Excoriating Individuals can earn executive recognition (power) and big paychecks to prick endlessly and pick persistently thereby causing more bleeding?
Incredibly, are broad sections of the nation either oblivious or on board this sadomasochistic train of national infection?
With this infection, who is targeted by continual characterization and blame for pernicious pus, pain, odor, swelling and fever?
Are there scouts available with a proven “Be Prepared” kit of care that can soothe and save suffering?
Can old wounds certainly be acknowledged but not pricked or picked to further damage?
Are new wounds, or symptoms of wounds, psychosomatic, self-inflicted or not, certainly possible but eminently treatable and much improved over time with effective procedures, capabilities and sensitivity?
Do school choice plus self-reliance and earned self-esteem provide any prophylaxis?
Does ‘Doctor’ Shakespeare always seem to have the answer? Today: To pricks and picks and wounds and bleeding?
From Julius Caesar (slightly adjusted):
“Over such wounds now do I prophesy,—
Which, like dumb mouths, do open their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue—
A curse is lighted (and must be lifted) upon the limbs of men”?
Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. The answers and actions are yours.