Posted by med_empowered on November 18, 2006, at 0:10:55
In reply to Re: About psychosurgery. I received this from MGH., posted by notfred on November 17, 2006, at 14:48:40
look--if you have $$$ to pay for brain damage, then you have $$$ to first try to work *with* your brain to make your life better.
I'm not trying to preach or anything, but psychosurgery is **incredibly** risky and it isn't always beneficial. Its also irreversible--keep in mind that with all this talk of "reduing anxiety" or "lessening depression" what's happening is *deliberate infliction of brain damage*. Yes, the techniques are less barbaric than the old days of ice pick lobotomies, but the point remains--whether you're using an ice pick or gamma radiation or a scalpel, the brain is being deliberately destroyed. They are not making you feel better, they are just destroying parts of your brain that feel bad.
Please reconsider. Try logotherapy--"Man's Search For Meaning". Try supplements. Go on a vacation. Buy yourself something fun. Join a church. Just don't do this to yourself--its irreversible. Yes, you may be sad, but being sad is part of being human...crippling your brain doesn't just "reduce depression" it reduces your humanity.Please--try something else.
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