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When a brain surgeon severs a nerve connection or removes a part of the brain to treat some disorder, the surgeon is not curing the patient of the disorder. The surgeon in this case is not making the brain work better (even though there might be improvement of a constellation of symptoms by taking this action). Cutting out a part of the brain is really a technique that gets its results by selectively making some part of the brain worse... by killing it.
I will eventually show that almost every medication treatment in use today does the same thing by selectively influencing some cells that are communicating in a stressed fashion and adding enough additional stress to send those problem cells into a coma (rendering the cell relatively unresponsive to the same combination of influences that previously created a lot of activity), much like the surgeon that removes the cells with a scalpel.
It is the nature of the way the brain uses stress in communication that makes it possible for a patient that is showing the signs of disorder or stress to react favorably (symptomatically) to the addition of the right amount of the right kind of stress.
This is the reason that a certain percentage of patients would "improve" with the crude treatments of torture that exist in our not so distant medical history.
This is the reason that depressive patients will show "improvement" with electro-convulsive therapy.
This is the reason that people feel better when adding the stress of recreational drugs and alcohol to their systems (and the reason that healthy children feel worse under the influence of the same substances).
Our current medical therapies are really taking advantage of a mechanism of our nervous systems that is beneficial to all life forms because parts of the brain under severe stress will shut down to avoid pain. Otherwise we would continue to collect pains that never go away until we die as our bodies suffer various (severe) insults and injuries over time.
Right now it is necessary for the medical establishment to at least admit that it is possible to improve symptoms by making some part of the nervous system worse. Without admitting this possibility, the medical world will never get the answers to the big questions.
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