HOWEDY nicky nooner,
Perhaps you shoulda asked sharon too or doctor
sandy HOWE to get financed to pay your vet bill?
OtherWIZE, BWEEEAAAHAAAHAAA~!~!~!
Here's HOWE COME you chronic manic depressives "GRIEVE":
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/627/1?etoc
Why It's Hard to Say Goodbye
By Andrea Lu
ScienceNOW Daily News
27 June 2008
With all the heartache it causes, why do some people have so
much trouble letting go of their grief? In an ironic twist, new
research shows that the brain's pleasure center may be to blame.
Most people, when confronted with the death of a loved one,
mourn intensely for a few weeks or months and then gradually
manage to move on. A small percentage, however, become
debilitated by the loss and can't resume their normal lives; they
experience what psychologists call complicated grief.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures
blood flow to various parts of the brain, has shown that grief activates
regions of the brain associated with processing pain. However, no
study had yet observed what happens in the brain during complicated
grief.
In the new work, which will be published in the 15 August issue of
NeuroImage, researchers led by clinical psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor
of the University of California, Los Angeles, looked at 23
women who had lost a mother or sister to breast cancer within the
past 5 years. Based on a clinical *****sment, the researchers divided
the women into complicated and noncomplicated grievers. They then showed
the women a series of 60 pictures that paired a photo of a
stranger or the deceased loved one with either a grief-related word
(e.g., cancer) or a similar-looking but emotionally neutral word (e.g.,
ginger). The purpose of the words was to make the images of relatives
seem fresh, even if the women had already viewed them several
times on their own.
As expected, fMRI revealed strong activity in pain-processing
areas of the brain when the women saw photos of their relatives
or grief-related words.
No such effect appeared when subjects saw neutral words or photos
of strangers. The surprise came when women diagnosed with complicated
grief
looked at a picture of their relative or a grief-related word:
In addition to activity in pain-processing areas of the brain, these
women showed activity in the nucleus ac***bens, a region of the
brain linked to pleasure and reward.
The findings could mean that the brains of women with complicated
grief have not properly adjusted to the fact that their loved ones are
gone, O'Connor speculates.
When humans become attached to someone, they derive pleasure
from the attachment, and their nucleus ac***bens activate, she
notes. And because that area is also active when women with
complicated grief see reminders of a dead relative, it may signal
that these women have a harder time accepting the death of a
loved one than noncomplicated grievers do.
At the very least, says O'Connor, scientists may now have a clinical
marker that can help them distinguish among women with complicated
and noncomplicated grief.
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GET HEELP, nicky; you ENJOY this TOO MUCH:
"Noon Cat Nick" <chatdemidiSPAMBEGONE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:MXlPk.417339$yE1.260379@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Newsgroups: alt.sup****t.grief.pet-loss
> From: sapphire3408@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 1999/09/23
> Subject: Terrible Tuesday
>
> Please someone help me with my overwhelming guilt and grief. Tuesday at
> five forty my beloved best friend and child Cheddar Cheese passed away.
> He had been sick just since Sunday and got really bad on Tuesday
> morning. I tried Monday night to call my mom and let her know that he
> was sick and to possibly help me out with funds to take him to the vet
> but she was too wrapped up in television to even ask what was wrong so I
> went home to be with him. Tuesday morning I called the vet because he
> couldn't walk or deficate and he was just lying there with his head in
> his water bowl. They said he was blocked and to bring him right in.
> The problem was they would not bill me for the service and actually
> quoted prices at me like he was a car to be fixed. I called my mom
> again and asked for monetary help (I told her he was dying) and she said
> she didn't have any and all she could do was yell at me for not being
> responsible enough to put money away for emergencies. There was noone
> else to ask. I went home to be with him. I held him and talked to him
> and gave him water to suckle off my fingertips. I spent just about
> every minute of the day with him. We were always together and I wasn't
> going to leave him now. I feel so guilty for looking into those eyes
> and not being able to help him. TO see him stop breathing was the worst
> possible moment in my life. There was so much the vet could have done
> for him if they had just worried about the money later. I feel so sad
> and so lonely and guilty I am dying inside. I still want to scream and
> wail like I did when it first happened.So what if we are poor,he didn't
> deserve to die that way,he was only six years old and my best friend!!!!
> to make it even worse my mom didn't even say she was sorry when I
> called to tell her she just started yelling at me again for being
> irresponsible and my father says it is my fault. I would have licked
> their floors clean if they just would have saved my kitty!!
>
> * * * * * * * * *
>
> I have never gotten over this. Even nine years after the fact, the
thought
> of this post still makes me howl and sob in grief and pain.
>
> Why?
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