Depression - a possible cure in sight

by gumby 28 Replies latest jw friends

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  upside/down

  I saw this same scenario played out in a comic strip. These scientists hooked a wire into a monkeys brain and put him in a cage with a button. The button would trigger the wire which would cause an immediate orgasm. There was a digital counter hooked up to the button to record how many times the monkey pressed the button. After putting the monkey in the cage the phone rings and the scientist goes and answers it. When he returns to the cage a few minutes later the monkey is lying on the floor of the cage with a huge smile on his face and is dead... the counter registered 46!

  I'll pleasure myself the "old-fashioned' way, thank you...

  u/d
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  FlyingHighNow

  Makes me think of Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest: "A little dab'll do ya."

  Your very own walking, talking shock therapy. If it works though, hey. Sounds almost dangerous though.

  I found some herbal combinations that help me much more than any Rx ever did.
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  Midget-Sasquatch

  Gumby

  I forgot that they starved to death, but yep thats the experiment. Dang hypothalamus is too deep inside for me to attempt a do-it-yourself contraption. Guess I'll have to go the old-fashioned route.

  FlyingHighNow

  I found that having 70% of my caloric intake as carbohydrates keeps me in a good enough mood. Screw te low carb diet craze...Look at Santa, always jolly. :)
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  El Kabong

  >>>Didn't I see this on Cheers? Cliffy got a shock device and his doctor shocked him everytime he started to say something dumb.
  
  Then Carla go ahold of it. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
  
  Bwaahahahaha......Dance Mailman....
  
  Seriously, I have to have doubts on how shocking someone will help cure depression.
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  Scully

  They were showing the device on the late news the other night. It's a fascinating invention - almost like a pacemaker for the brain.

  I found this kind of disturbing though:

  I was just reading an article about a 50 year old Toronto psychiatric nurse who has had 10 years of horrible depression. She has fought off suicidal thoughts, cried and sobbed on her balcony for hours on end, spent 6 months in bed, shunned food and friends.

  Makes me wonder whether working so closely with psychiatric patients was so emotionally draining for her that it kick-started her own depression? I know that's why I don't work in psych... it would drive me round the bend.
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  GentlyFeral

  Capt. Schmideo,

  Read the book or watch the movie "The Terminal Man" by Michael Chrichton.

  And now you remind me of Alfred Bester's immortal story, "Fondly Fahrenheit."

  Dammit, I found one link that actually contains intelligent discussion of the story, but there's a damn spoiler in it.

  g ently f eral
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  gumby

  Scully.....I thought the same thing. Shrinks are no better than the sick they try to heal.

  Seriously, I have to have doubts on how shocking someone will help cure depression.

  I can see the concept. The body is an electric circuit. Synapses in the brain do not connect in some and depression results. Inhibitors many times work for some and make the connect. The electric impulse idea connects the short. I too would have to agree with herbal remedys as a cure if they will work......but many do not respond to drugs or herbs.

  My method is......figure out some way to get enough dough where I don't have to work my arse off for the rest of my life, have plenty of smoke, and enjoy doing stuff you wished you could do all your life. That would prolly work for me without having to put the damn wires in my head.

  Dr. Gumby
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  Big Tex

  I don't know, this sounds like a do-it-yourself electro shock. I'm very skeptical of anything that 'cures' depression. I've struggled with it all my life (or at least as long as I can remember). I think there are many causes and mitigating factors. Just saying shoot some electricity into your brain and you'll feel better ... nah, I'll pass.

  For myself I did more good facing my demons. It didn't cure me, but it gave me the tools to fight the battle. Good days and bad days. Maybe in the next life I'll have it better.
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  gumby

  Maybe in the next life I'll have it better.

  With our luck Big T....we'll prolly end up bein two cows standin in a big cold open field with the wind blowin and rainin like hell.......wishin we were back in the other life bein depressed in a warm house.

  Gumby and Big T. in a big cold field with the wind blowin baaaaaaaa
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  Rabbit

  G u m b y . . . if your finger gets tired of pulling that Tazer trigger, I'm pretty good with electronics. I can set up a remote trigger here at home on my keyboard, refrigerator door or even the toilet seat. I've got your best interests at heart, bud.

  Anything I can do to help... Rabbit