Russian Research: Whipping Therapy Cures Depression & Suicide Crises

Sir_Winston54

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Okay - according to this, we should now be able to convert any of our groups that include or incorporate S-M to "peer therapy/counseling groups." :nana: (I love the last paragraph, btw!)

Whipping therapy cures depression and suicide crises

26.03.2005 Source: Original article here.

The effect is astounding: a patient starts seeing only bright colors in the surrounding world

Russian scientists from the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, made a sensational report at the international conference devoted to new methods of treatment and rehabilitation in narcology. The report was called “Methods of painful impact to treat addictive behavior.”

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 sessions of 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 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.

The whipping therapy has not become a new discovery in the history of medicine. Tibetan monks widely used it for medical purposes too. Soviet specialists used a special method of torturing therapy at mental hospitals. They made injections of brimstone and peach oil mixture to inspire mentally unbalanced patience with a will to live. A patient would suffer from horrible pain in the body after such an injection, but he or she would change their attitude to life for the better afterwards.

”People might probably think of me as a masochist,” Dr. Speransky said. “But I can assure you that I am not a classic masochist at all,” he added.

The revolutionary method may take the Russian healthcare to a whole new level. The method is cheap and highly efficient, as its authors assure. Why not using something more efficient, a rack, for example?
 
Insurance

Since it is therapy should I submit the bill for my canes to my health insurance?
Thanks for the article.
 
Lamont Cranston said:
Since it is therapy should I submit the bill for my canes to my health insurance?
Thanks for the article.

No, hang a shingle on your door and then take it off on your taxes as a business expense. ;)
 
Sir_Winston54 said:
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.

This makes so much sense to me. I went to a presentation on meth addition and sexuality at an HIV prevention conference last year. Apparently, Meth when used in large amounts over an extended period can so destroy pain/pleasure receptors in the brain that even 10 years after quiting, people still have only a limited ability to experience pleasure of any kind. The presenters recommended life-long use of seritonin-related anti-depressants. My immediate though? Wouldn't a little regular flogging do the same with fewer side effects? *chuckle*

:rose: Neon
 
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Lamont Cranston said:
I like that idea better...
Now, to figure out what your shingle should say. Hmmmm..... "Master Caning Counselor - Inquire Within" "Cranston's Caning Services for Psychological Well-Being" :catgrin:
 
We had a couple of threads on this research over the past couple of years and it is an interesting concept. I would like to see some follow up studies on it, or others findings done by other groups just for more depth.

Catalina :catroar:
 
neonflux said:
Now, to figure out what your shingle should say. Hmmmm..... "Master Caning Counselor - Inquire Within" "Cranston's Caning Services for Psychological Well-Being" :catgrin:


i think i need some therapy.... :cattail: **giggle**
 
This is not new

Laugh if you want to, but I knew a sub who told me about this court system in the midwest that used spanking for punishment in some court cases.

In fact, he used to visit this one woman to regularly get spanked.

Different strokes.

[my office hours are by appointment only]
Dr. Eb
 
Ebonyfire said:
Laugh if you want to, but I knew a sub who told me about this court system in the midwest that used spanking for punishment in some court cases.

In fact, he used to visit this one woman to regularly get spanked.

Different strokes.

[my office hours are by appointment only]
Dr. Eb
I AM ROFL! I used to do court diversion counseling when I was much younger (really - sent people to do community service, that sort of thing). Too bad I wasn't living in the midwest then, he he he. :devil:
 
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