Re: sighunctific rigger

TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:21:53 -0700 (PDT)

---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.
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