Stress - Pure fantasy? by Dorthe Gyldenkærne
After watching an inspiring broadcast on DR2 showing breakthroughs inside scientific research, surrounding the force of thought and the correlation between body and soul. I pick up the keyboard, before my thoughts are out of mind and have disappeared into oblivion.
The first TV broadcast out of six, went in depth with the placebo- and nonceboeffect, where scientists outlined some of the most long term studies which are conducted on humans. As a viewer you could just observe the show open-mouthed. Eg. a severely disabled lady with Parkinson's disease was included in the study, she received a placebo surgery and turned out as a very calm and sensible person, because she believed that she now had gotten an operation that had healing power.
Another example was of a young man, who also received placebo, he had a confrontation with his girlfriend, after which he emptied the pill bottle for approx. 20 placebo pills. The man suffered a severe panic attack – he perhaps realized at the last moment that life was valuable? He contacted the emergency department, was hospitalized and put under observation. He received large amounts of saline drops, which would normally help in a poisoning. The apparatus showed no improvement, and the overseer contacted chief the research doctor, who showed up and told the terrified suicidal that the pills were placebo having no effect on the body. Within approx. 15 minutes and a glass of water, the young guy was on top again.
It is incredibly good that science has come so far in the research, and that it will be published in an easily comprehensible manner to the layman.
What also could be a quite interesting in the continuation of the series of broadcasts, researchers themselves in the x-number of years could to submit to monitoring when they personally come out and feel that life does not really want as they want it. Will the scientists and doctors themselves be ready to think positive and think in the placebo tracks when the anxiety of death knocking at the door? Because the anxiety of death will sooner or later get in touch with all people - a truly grim noncebo formulation, I am well aware of it. But the problem is that there is no use in wrapping things up in cotton wool. Occasionally one must call a spade a spade.
If doctors and scientists themselves can’t cope with their own mortality with all the knowledge and access to help they have, how will Mrs Olsen on the fifth floor be able to handle it? The lady may not have even seen the broadcast, because her focus might be somewhere else and on another channel. So she will not even have had the opportunity to understand the context of things mentally.
Emotionally she may know all about the anxiety of death, but missed the mental insight into the broadcast. The minds own existential anxiety of death will in any case, be good to have lived through emotionally and well out of the way before the body stops functioning and man loses his eloquence. You could say the sooner the better because the anxiety of death tends to put a lid on the enjoyment of life, which Mrs. Olsen on the fifth floor has earned a share of.
The young man in the broadcast has certainly gotten an unforgettable experience of how the existential death anxiety can show its face. He has probably within a few hours got an extremely valuable insight served on a plate similar to what a Buddhist monk must spend years in deep meditation to achieve.
In a larger perspective, what happens now with all the thousands of people whom the doctors so far have given the noncebo diagnosis of "Stress" and been stigmatized black and white in medical files. Will they be able to forgive the doctors from one day to another, based on a TV show for the given diagnosis? Will thousands of people now have the stress diagnosis in their medical records deleted? According to the research, stress did exist only as an imagination, pure illusion. Is the die cast? And will it forever be etched in patients' records and the patient's awareness that they had been stressed and unable to handle daily life.
I assume that that everyone basically would rather go to the grave with both pure conscience and a pure record both legal and medical. History has repeatedly shown that forgiveness and guilt are feelings that are worth getting resolved before the body begins with the natural state of decay.
But we're perhaps getting the answer in the next show, which among other things deals with reincarnation?
http://www.dr.dk/DR2/S/Sjaelˍvidenskab/De+seks+afsnit.htm
Dorthe Gyldenkærne. www.aumakua.dk