Hey, Buddy.
Posted on 07/29/2020 4:34:04 AM PDT by billorites
When being a human gets too hard, the brain will cope with psychological stress in fascinating ways.
While most of the 260 million people worldwide who suffer from depression will have common symptoms, such as sadness, fatigue, disinterest and sleeplessness, an exceedingly rare few could lose their humanity completely — by assuming the identity of an animal, according to researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium.
In the Dutch medical journal Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, psychologists described the case of one 54-year-old woman, unnamed in their case study, who was found in her garden “clucking and crowing like a rooster” — a condition called zoanthropy, or the delusion of believing oneself is not human, but animal.
They described the woman as being “disoriented” during their examination, while also reporting an unfamiliar sensation in her limbs, “as if they were not fit for her body … and flapped uncontrollably,” the study read. The patient noted that she’d hardly slept in five days.
The woman, a pharmacy employee, was brought to the emergency room after her brother found her “displaying stereotyped behavior” of a chicken. She had no history of substance abuse or psychotic episodes prior. But the family attributed her behavior to the recent loss of a loved one, for which she had been suffering a two-month bout of depression — which runs in her family.
They also learned that she had been avoiding friends during that time, and had recently received negative feedback at work.
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Neither one of those is a word, but it’s a name that probably had an impact on all of us from that age lol.
Hey, it is lowbrow humor...
And sometimes, that is not only the funniest humor, but what a man needs to coax out a good laugh!
I couldn’t be more in agreement...sometimes a good laugh is just a good laugh!
I only watched a single episode when it was on television, but I didn’t watch much television back then so I wasn’t ignoring it. (It was the episode when they had a French female foreign exchange student living in their house...:)
All these years later, I still grin at that!
The show that made FOX, as I recall.
ROFL!!
why don’t you just bark bark bark bark bark out of here.
the joy cluck club
no my job is to stuff the bird
i was “kidnapped” by a “gang” of “chickens”
rofl!!!!
Never saw that montage before.
Just the fat woman insults :)
Mila I think!!! HOT!!
And yeah as the show got older and the daughter got older...what a hottie. :)
What’s funny is that every time Al insulted Marcie, Jefferson would laugh right along.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VZOQZ0sdK0
I was just about to post that! :)
He always laughed behind her back :)
I once looked for a montage of him laughing at her but couldn’t find one
YES my life is that boring :)
...“Married With Children”...
Quite possibly one of the greatest sitcoms ever made...
lol
He took up rapping outside the show and the producers used it to destroy him on the show :)
That was hysterical!
grand marshal b
lol
She’s spent every moment since trying to overcome the hot dumb blonde girl persona.
Brings to mind the old gag about the Hillary Clinton Bucket at KFC.
Two small breasts, two huge thighs, and two wings (a left one, and a far-left one).
I feel sorry for Christina Applegate. She had to deal with a lot before the age of 40. Cancer, double mastectomy, boyfriend ODing, caring for a mom with cancer as a teenager and yet having to come to work every day and be funny.
Hey, Buddy.
I once read a decription of Mick Jagger’s stage presence as a ‘chicken on LSD’.
Classic!!
It just may have been the most politically incorrect show of all time - which is why I love it!
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