20th October Not all thats well ends well

With the words 'mental health' and 'well being' assuming the top 2 positions in the most used words of 2021, enterprising entrepeneurs up and down the land have proved that getting money right out of Middle England's wallets is easier than stealing candy from a child.
 
I mean which one of us can, hands on heart, admit that faced with the life changing trauma of not finding any organic kumquat drizzeled in raspberry jui on the shelves in our local Waitose, we have not suffered a mental health collapse of such magnitude that it has resulted in rushing to receive a ground coffee enema or needing to stroke a decidedly uninterested 'stress dog'. 

Or perhaps we might have felt the compulsion to invest in a candle that has been somewhere in the vicinity of Gwyneth Paltrow's clacker, listen for hours on end to the sound of whale farts or soak in a homeopathetic solution that has been diluted more than the the governments pre election promises.

With health scams exceeding £9bn taking place each year, it is only a matter of time before your life doesn't go exactly the way you want it to go, you have an emotional meltdown, and your well being ends up as shredded as a Banksey painting. But fear not, just reach for your Greta Thunberg cushion, stand naked whilst a Peruvian shamen (who is actually from Bolton) covers your body in a mix of Ginko Biloba and Panda excrement or pay someone an exhorbitant amount of money to place some heated garden pebbles up and down your spine.

After all everyone else is doing it so why shouldn't you. Go on treat yourself today!



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