---Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote: > Has anyone else a comment to make on it? Or are Scottie and I the only > ones who have run into the brick walls of getting the brain to do what > people think it's supposed to do? I ask this with genuine curiosity. I > can never get enough of honest reactions. unqualified and unorganized answer: pump someone up on something like heroin(and keep them on it) and sure they won't notice how crappy their life is. if the problem is with a chemical imbalance (which i'm not quite sure but i don't think all mental illnesses are) then the best treatment may be therapeutic drugs. but it shouldn't end there. it's like a virus that causes your eyes to cloud over so you go to "doctor" and have your eyes unclouded then they cloud over again and you go have them unclouded again and this goes on until "doctor" decides the best thing to do (though S/He does this because your insurance won't cover any more eye uncloudings) is to just take out your eyes. there. no more eye cloudings! the dull point is that just because a chemical imbalance is causing the noticed mental illness doesn't mean that the chemical imbalance itself is at the bottom of the pyre.(amid) kindof like Bio-feedback. something other than chemicals could be causeing mental distress which in turn causes a chemical inbalance. i don't think that we should just treat the specific chemical imbalance but treat the entire person. i for one would rather feel something than be numbed by drugs. though i suspect if drugged competently i wouldn't object anylonger. i would also want to be dissatisfied with my life and say "i am going to change things" and then change the world or my life and then be able to say "i like this" than know my life is crap, take some drug and go directly to "i like this" because i am confused by a new mental illness called drug therapy. if you find a magic lamp and the genie says " i give you one wish for dollar twenty five per minute " and you pay and say "make me happy" and like all genies who insist on being smart asses tricks you by making you an idiot who can only nod and smile wouldn't you have been better off saying "change the world to make me happy" (assuming s/he doesn't just fill the air with nitrous oxide) or better off just saying no thanks jack, using the dollar twenty five to buy a salinger novel and reading it by the light of an old lamp you found. not very solid, but . paul. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com