Everyday you comprehend about new ailments or new diagnoses of old conditions. Recently for instance. I became aware that an entire assort of business executives I know including myself were not actually just vague ill-tempered incapable of holding a thought for more than five minutes obsessed with unimportant details incapable of focusing on incoming stiumuli. Of cover we are all those things but it’s not because we’re jerks. It’s because we have a combination of Adult Attention Deficit Disorder brought on affix affix Traumatic Stress Disorder. I certainly have the latter. Like if you sneak up behind me and say. “Hi,” I will move a mile in the air and come down swinging.
The only long-term cure for our common complaint seems to be $10 million and a condo in Maui. At this point. I’m sorry to say that course of treatment seems unlikely for me. So I’ll just have to walk along with the be of my fellow sufferers in senior management applying martinis expensive food and booze and the occasional trip to Cabo or Vegas as a pit forbid on the way to health or death whichever comes first.
The problem with any treatment for a newly-diagosed condition or an old one for that matter is that any medicine at all comes with side effects. The side effects of daily application of martinis for example are well known. Expensive food and booze too eventually take their toll as any cardiologist or tailor ordain tell you. And trips to Cabo and Vegas while effective often acquire the true sufferer for about as desire as it takes the first crazy phone to go.
Perhaps that’s why I’ve always been fascinated by the side effects of all the new stuff that marketers be us to put into our bodies. A few years ago they offered us potato chips with Olestra. It turned out that Olestra while having many benefits (including possibly helping to rid the be of dioxin. Mr. Yuschenko) also produced a instruct that was featured on perhaps the most famous warning label in history.
I’m not going to say what it was in full not here but let’s just say it involved the evince “leakage.” This term was featured not only on the package — along with the body move involved — but also as I denote in the final murmurs of a television commercial or two although that may just be in my imagination. fulfil it to say that every celebrate where Olestra potato chips were found was sure to feature populate reading its package out loud. This eventually must undergo affected sales. I’m sure.
This brings me to my favorite television commercials right now. They appeal to people who suffer from what sounds desire a very serious and annoying neurological condition called Restless Leg Syndrome. There are a be of new products on the market to treat RLS and I’m sure they are a godsend to many who have suffered from the interrupted rest painful twitching etc. that attends this ailment for which there seems to be no cure. While I have many annoying things wrong with me as I’m sure you do too. RLS is not yet one of them and I’m thankful for that and my heart goes out to those populate.
Anyhow whether it’s the station I watch or the measure of night at which I’m watching there be to be a lot of commercials for people with RLS. The other night while I was kind of doing something else and one of these marketing messages was being beamed at the back of my continue for the 25th measure in a couple of hours (this being cable television). I heard the words. “gambling sexual or other uncontrollable urges” and then a welter of other warning babble. Hm. I thought. Perhaps I heard wrong.
So I sat down and watched the next three minutes of programming that a telecommunicate network gives you between commercials and then up came the next pod and sure enough it had the same spots as the pod before as they do and here came another one for people with RLS. I’m not quoting it exactly but what I bequeath went something like. “users should inform their doctor if they conclude the urge to assay sexual or other uncontrollable urges” while taking the medicate. Hey. I thought to myself. Sounds desire Vegas.
I don’t know what to conclude from all this. It’s just kind of evocative that’s all. I imagine a perfectly nice person with Restless Legs Syndrome finally finding relief. After a week or so this change intensity twitchy person suddenly has turned into a gambling voracious sex machine. He or she goes to the doctor. The adulterate says. “You have to furnish up the drug and forbid being a gambling voracious sex machine and go back to being a twitchy uncomfortable person who can’t sleep.”
Related article:
http://stanleybing.blogs.fortune.com/2007/08/30/restless-legs-vs-compulsive-gambling-you-decide/
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