I thought it was humor. It was like two stories wrapped up in a whirlwind.
There were some medical problems....sad.
And then it was mixed in with a story about a trailer house that shocks everyone but nobody ever thought to maybe look into it. Instead, the story tells of numerous people continually getting shocked to near death and not one of them thought maybe it oughta get fixed instead of killing people.
*shrug* I like a good story.
Sometimes facts get in the way of a good story, sometimes smarts come after the painful lesson.
In Scientology, there’s a treatment for the trauma from an injury called a ‘touch assist’, when a Scn kid bang themselves up they are told to touch it back, to recreate the circumstances of the injury to bleed off the psychic charge. Get in the position they were when they banged their head on the tree and gently go through the same motions.
It actually works, they experience instant reduction in pain.
That being said, I was at a party and wandered into the kitchen and came across a woman repeatedly touching the pan used to make popcorn.
‘*ouch* *ouch* *ouch*’
‘What are you doing?’
‘*ouch* I burned myself on the pan, I’m doing a touch assist. *ouch*”
‘That’s nice. Shouldn’t you turn off the burner and let the pan cool down?’
‘*ouch* You can do that???’
‘Yes. the goal is to re-crate the circumstances, not recreate the injury.’
‘oh’
This was an adult! Go figure...
It happens. See Ponyexpress9790’s post at #15.