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My son is a college senior majoring in neurobiology. He sent me an email about a young man back in the eighties who became suicically depressed by his obsessive compulsive behavior (constant handwashing).
He, young man, not son, put a .22 in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
He survived with IQ intact and OCD gone.
The reference is Solyom, Turnbull and Wilensky, 1987.
 
The brain is a mysterious thing. They have somewhat recently discovered that people who have received brain damage to a certain part of the brain during car accidents and the like can no longer be addicted to anything. Smokers would literally have no desire to smoke at all, and no withdraw symptoms, after recovering from their concussion.
 
Probably more of a psychological response than a physical response. His mind likely associated the OCD behavior with the eventual gunshot damage and blocked it out. Sort of like electrocuting you when you push a button...after a go or two, you learn not to push the button.
 
Could be brain damage in just the right spot. Could also be one heck of a placebo effect as in; "I just shot myself to stop doing that and I lived. Heck yeah I'm freaking cured all right!"
 
I remember discussing this in one of my psychology classes back in college. I suppose this is one situation where "use enough gun" doesn't apply.
 
Now boys and girls, we all know from Sarah Brady that guns can only be used to kill.
Besides, operating rooms are nice, safe, gun gree zones with that warm fuzzy feeling.
 
I think the Lord was watching over this poor guy and threw him a bone so to speak, nothing more, nothing less. Still amazing.

I have terrible allergies in my lungs since coming down south, wonder if a .44 to the chest might help.........actually I am sure it would, its just the side effects I couldn't LIVE with.:neener:
 
although I don't quite know why I am responding to this post, I believe it answers itself. It would seem that the correct application of a bullet would be of the .22lr caliber for this specific instance.

Others may vary, I would think that a 45 would be to large to use as a precision instrument :uhoh:
 
cslinger, might drain some of the built-up fluid.
Not that you should try it.... might drain off too much of the wrong fluids. ;)
 
could be a way to cure epilepsy, sever the corpus collosum(sic).
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Hrmm. If you severed the corpus callosum, I wonder if that would contribute to individual shooting ambidexterity. Hrmmmmm...

Anyway, wow, sounds like he got a break.
 
I would say that the guy should count his lucky stars. the bullet seems to have done just enough damage to destroy whatever was causing the OCD. Definitely not the recommended way to treat the disorder
 
Lotsa .22 rimfire cartridges out there. Any indication in the reference as to whether it was a LR, a short, a CB/BB cap, or what?
 
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