Comments on: Injection Could Cure Phobias

By: Reem

Reem — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:25:16 +0000

No one seems worried that this was probably developed as a weapon (the ultimate soldier, anyone watch J.I.Goe recently) and it’s not generating as much interest as i thought something like that would ? Fear is a survival tool it\’s probably not wise to mess with it because of one irrational fear. Isn’t it like wiping ur slate clean from that first memory where u touched something hot and ur fingers jerked away.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:31:14 +0000

I´m sure that people wih extreme fear for something that prevends them from living a normal life would be happy if a cure would come up (if therapy and such for some reason don´t work\’.
Fear of heights is not something I´d see as something someone needs to get a cure for that badly, although it will be kinda weird having to ask someone to do you windows or such if you dont dare to get on the stairs.
I´d suggest therapy. Good old fashioned therapy for lots of phobia. They already dope people for way too many things to easily. Without taking care of the real reason behind all the problems.

Fear is a weird thing ..but a simple body response, which can be easily triggered and will not always be recognized as fear by the person him-herself. It can be sensed as something else at times.

By: nwxi

nwxi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:02:36 +0000

Sounds like an ideal drug for military use.

By: crae

crae — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:53:44 +0000

This is almost as bad as the drug designed to reduce the weight of people who eat too much food. Masking the unpleasant symptoms of a problem doesn’t actually solve much. The problem is still there and the poor person slowly becomes demendant on the mask to function.

Considering the proven effectiveness of hypnosis to resolve phobias, this is just another example of the profit motive out of control – the only winner here is the company who produces the drug. The pharmacutical industry has always and will always put profit above actually helping people, demonstrated by an abysmal track record of being sued for doing so.

@Sara
Do a search for: Richard Bandler phobia cure. Find a competent hypnotherapist if you need more help, stay away from psychologist’s (just my opinion).

By: Pearse

Pearse — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:29:49 +0000

Has to be a very dangerous drug! Fear is instinct without instinct we would be Lemmings, look what happened to Dodos because they didn’t fear early settlers! Therefore this is the end of the human race!

By: BadMonkey

BadMonkey — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:25:44 +0000

Am I the only one with the sinister mind here and only sees an army of fearless super soldiers marching across the landscape ready to sack bexill on sea?

Seriously though, I would like to know what the lack of fear would do to morality.

By: Rebecca Burgess

Rebecca Burgess — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:33:20 +0000

I’d actually be pretty pleased to see this be realized. I have a serious, serious phobia, one that really does dictate almost everything I do in life, has made me develop OCD, and after many years I have come to the conclusion that the only way I could ever be completely stress free each day is if I got rid of my phobia completely, instead of just trying to control it. I don’t know, maybe its bad to want to try get rid of something completely, esp like this, but I’d really welcome it.
Anyway, I’m not sure the jab actually stops you being scared of everything, it’s a ‘re programming’ thing. So it stops you from reacting in a certain way towards what you’re scared of. Most people react a good way when they are scared of something, but phobias are a bit different…

By: aaa

aaa — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:30:45 +0000

Fearless like… a sociopath for example?

By: Alex Guy

Alex Guy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:29:09 +0000

Fear of injections is pretty common, still, I think some people would take one injection to stop a lifetime of fear of them

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:15:15 +0000

This is ridiculous. Curing fears with drugs is really fucked up especially when we got tools like NLP, Hypnosis and others. Using drugs is of course good business plan.