It’s so evil how something going wrong in life puts you on a downward spiral where everything just gets worse and worse. Get an illness? That’s not enough on its own, now you also have side effects from medications and poverty from being unable to work. And then being so poor leads to more bad outcomes, worse health, malnutrition, homelessness or insecure housing. Or, for instance, suffer a traumatic incident? That’s not enough on its own, now you develop PTSD and struggle to function, your whole life goes down the pan. Have a poverty-stricken childhood? Now you’re less likely to get a good education, less likely to earn enough money and even grow up with lower cognitive development, more mental health issues and more long-term health problems, all of which affect your life outcomes. And the lower you sink, the more society despises you and the less of a support network you have. Why is our society set up to make people’s lives worse when they have problems already?

Oh, and I seem to have developed incurable BO. For the past few days, my armpits stink no matter how much I wash them or how much deodorant I use. Is this an age thing? I was already an old hag, now it seems I’m becoming a smelly old hag.