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ALTERNATIVE CURE FOR EPILEPSY.
Wed, 03/17/2010 - 04:47Comments
Re: ALTERNATIVE CURE FOR EPILEPSY.
Submitted by callpaul on Wed, 2010-03-17 - 05:32
Re: ALTERNATIVE CURE FOR EPILEPSY.
Submitted by maBenzi on Wed, 2010-03-17 - 14:02
Hi Callpaul
I live in Africa...it would be really nice if this guy crawled out of his hiding place and offered the solution to us all. We would be very grateful. Where in Africa is he hiding with this wonder drug? He would be very wealthy. We would probably name all our children after him. Tell him not to be shy. What country is he from? Is he a registered sangoma?
Hi Callpaul
I live in Africa...it would be really nice if this guy crawled out of his hiding place and offered the solution to us all. We would be very grateful. Where in Africa is he hiding with this wonder drug? He would be very wealthy. We would probably name all our children after him. Tell him not to be shy. What country is he from? Is he a registered sangoma?
Re: ALTERNATIVE CURE FOR EPILEPSY.
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Wed, 2010-03-17 - 05:19
Hi callpaul, I don't believe ruby-slippers will help with epilepsy, even in the Land of Oz. While my not being close to a large University's Library sorta delays the info on the latest medical fads, one back-water wave from the tidal wave of "Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Attacks" (PNEAs) offers the strategy of "curing epilepsy" and all other "seizures" by totally moving it to the realm of "Somatoform Disorders." In fact, the total concept of epilepsy can be dumped into the trash-bin of history by using the new nonsense from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition" (DSM-V). Another "fact", epilepsy might just be "The presence of [a] 'fashionable' diagnoses, such as fibromyalgia and chronic pain [15] (and probably others such as chronic fatigue syndrome and Lyme disease)." "The differential diagnosis of epilepsy: A critical review" by S. Benbadis, Epilepsy & Behavior 15 (2009) page 16. http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/epilepsyusa/yebeh/upload/Differential_diagnosis_of_epilepsy.pdf It sounds like you have noticed the phenomenon that E. Fuller Torrey noted in his book "The Mind Game: Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists" (1973), in that once epilepsy is officially relabeled amongst somatoform disorders, the specific somatoform disorder can best be treated by a witchdoctor than a psychiatrist or "neuropsychiatrist." Just like the results of the new DSM-V, it seldom works with epilepsy, even for true-believers. Tadzio