Nothing’s ever enough. You eat one meal and an hour later you’re hungry again. What if they invented a food that took care of you for a whole week? A month, a year? Took away your hunger, your craving? Every few months I get extremely anxious that something dark and nefarious is brewing within my body. Something too early in its development for doctors to detect or for me to symptomatically perceive. This anxiety is made worse by a healthy lack of faith in health professionals. Once adulthood set in hard and good post-Uni I was unable to view the doctors and therapists of the world as the salvation they purport to be.
Do people do annual check ups? Is it a thing? Read Illichs medical nemesis?