supposedly a scientific discovery from Russia -- 'whipping cures depression'

[bobbieinok]

This forum has some really incredible discussions/posts.

http://forum.pensacolanewsjournal.com/viewtopic.php?t=5334

From www.pravda.com

Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises
03/26/2005 13:06

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Siberian scientists believe that addiction to alcohol and narcotics, as well as depression, suicidal thoughts and psychosomatic diseases occur when an individual loses his or her interest in life. The absence of the will to live is caused with decreasing production of endorphins - the substance, which is known as the hormone of happiness. If a depressed individual receives a physical punishment, whipping that is, it will stir up endorphin receptors, activate the "production of happiness" and eventually remove depressive feelings.

Russian scientists recommend the following course of the whipping therapy: 30 to 60 whips on the buttocks in every procedure. A group of drug addicts volunteered to test the new method of treatment: the results can be described as good and excellent.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Sergei Speransky, is a very well known figure in Novosibirsk. The doctor became one of the authors of the shocking whipping therapy. The professor used the self-flagellation method to cure his own depression; he also recovered from two heart attacks with the help of physical tortures too.

"The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patient receives the punishment from a person of the opposite sex. The effect is astounding: the patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world, the heartache disappears, although it will take a certain time for the buttocks to heal, of course," Sergei Speransky told the Izvestia newspaper.

The whipping therapy has not become a new discovery in the history of medicine. The revolutionary method may take the Russian healthcare to a whole new level. The method is cheap and highly efficient, as its authors assure.

[lcordero2]

1. ??????????

what doesn't kill the body makes it stronger??????

[Demeter]

2. Whipping Cream--Maybe a Cure for Depression

Whipping buttocks trades depression for anger. Some improvement.

[Deja Q]

3. Maybe if it's part of a S&M ritual, but otherwise I don't fathom the correlation.

:shrug:

[kurth]

4. But nothing beats Russian roulette

Now that's a permanent cure from Russia.

[whyverne]

5. I don't know,

I'm a manic depressive and now I gotta find a woman to beat my butt?

[TheMadMonk]

6. The beatings will continue until moral improves.

Would be rather ironic if that turned out to be based in fact.

[melody]

7. Must be the "it feels so good when it stops" school of reasoning

There are all manner of positive things that will produce neurochemical effects. Sounds to me like
a personal problem for the good Dr. Speransky.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. Perhaps a little water-boarding will improve your outlook on life.

Maybe I could use a few days vacation at a luxury hellhole.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Finally, someone explains Republican therapy.

nt

[On the Road]

10. Pravda is the New National Enquirer

Seriously, I don't know whether it would work or not. Having your life threatened, being in a crisis or experiencing a physical shock of some kind can temporarily pull a person out of depression, but I doubt it works if it's staged.