05 November 2010

Don't worry, shrinks have found the 'worry centre'

Desperate people take desperate measures. Shrinks at the Institute of Psychiatry in London have apparently found the 'worry centre' of the brain for the first time. MRI scans of people deliberately made anxious by the threat of an electric shock have identified the hippocampus - the brain's memory centre - as the source of the anxiety.

Like all the other psychiatric hot air that's full of weasel words, I don't buy this. It begs the question of whether those under threat of electric shock were 'worriers' or not, or whether they were average Joes taken off the street. So there's some activity in the brain when you threaten them with being shocked. Goodness me! I've a theory about this. I reckon it means the subjects are alive. That's about as much as you can deduce from that.

Unscience aside, I'm getting to think like shrinks now, because the next step in this story is to 'discover' an expensive chemical, give it a name, patent it, sell it at inflated prices, and finally shove it down the throats of the worriers. When they're drugged up, and they stop worrying because they can't think straight, the shrinks will say they've solved the worriers of this world.

I'd like to take the worriers of this world, change a couple of letters and turn them into warriors, who then fight back against the shrinks who attempt to ruin their lives with chemicals.

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