(chuckle) Okay, I'm amused....

[patgund]

(Granted, the source is Pravda, so it may be about as reliable as the Weekly World News....)

Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises

""The whipping therapy becomes much more efficient when a patients 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."

I can see it now...."No, really, I'm not into BDSM, I'm just undergoing therapy for my depression, honest!"

Comments

[rorypadraig.livejournal.com]

The Weekly World News is not reliable? Are you telling me Bat Boy may not be real? You've really shaken my world-view now. ;)

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

actually I've seen documentation to support this working... but not for the reasons they list.

but then I used to torture myself to keep myself from going suicidal... and then started researching it.

pain DOES act as an antidepressant. So does releasing your power to someone else if that's part of your pain (responsibility stresses). It's not part of mine so releasing power for me just pisses me off.

Long time no see

[ogre1972.livejournal.com]

Well now that sounds a bit better than the drugs they put me on. Now just to find the right woman...... Anyways, long time no see Pat, not since 'Con. Which I hope to catch you at again this year. I've listened to you guys go on and on about this page, so I got on too. Gods, I feel like such a follower. But at least I'm following the right people, eh. Anyways, drop me a line, it's in my profile.

Jason

[nolly.livejournal.com]

V Pravda nye pravda, as the saying gopes, though I don't know if that's as true as it was under the Communists.