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Granted, scale modeling is not a major source of terminal illness and most practitioners are not subject to health problems related to modeling, but then there is the mental aspect.
Do you think you are SCDD? Here are six symptoms:
• You do an entire model doing your cutting and trimming with a butter knife.
• Your finished model is held together with rubber cement.
• You get yourself locked into the repetitive finishing cycle of filing + sanding / digging + filing to the point the wall of the model is too thin to support painting.
• You use a two-way Xacto blade to shave off a bad paint job and neither side works.
• You pull off a hypercritical modeling operation only to find it blocks access to a touchier job underneath.
• You honestly cannot understand how you could make such a dumb choice after you have failed to finish the kit.
| Do You Have A Health Issue? Most sufferers are filled with delusion. While SeniorCitizen DecrepitudeDeficience is not contagious (most modelers work alone) it does seem torun ingroups, such as modeling clubs and contest friends. SCDD suffers should not work on group projects as theynever know whose turnit is. Yes, as you have probably surmised SCDD is really afigment of myimagination and you won't find it in any medical dictionary, but formany ofus, it is too close to reality. For instance, I am a sufferer and fromtime totime maladies like this have put my modeling on hold and I'd like tosay it isdeclining eyesight, but to be more realistic, right now it is probablymorelike dealing with minor Essential Tremor which makes fine work withtweezersand thread much more difficult. | Get Into A Hobby They Make Seniors Live 1.Hobbies are dependable perscriptions for physical health. 2. Theychallenge dexterity. 3. They teachresourcefullness and patience. 4. They arealleged to increase longevity. 5. They keepmental faculties sharp and lively. 6. Hobbiesdistract from worry and stress. 7. Hobbiesreactivate your social life. 8. They expandyour personal knowledge base. 9. Hobbies giveyou a reason to get up in the morning. 10. They allowyou to go slow and do things right. |
In the past there have also been things like cardiac infarctions, and an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm that brought things to a halt. For others there have been incidents of carpal tunnel syndrome, Arthritis, back and spinal, Fibromyalgia concerns, auto immunities and major depression problems. Many of these malfunctions can be severely debilitating and all too often, the remedy from our medical community tends to be ever increasingly expensive drugs and/or surgery.
It is important to realize, particularly as we age, that there are natural, non-drug and non-surgical cures for almost every illness and disease.
