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In the late 1950s, a group of prestigious physicians at Northwestern University School of Medicine did a study unprecendented in medical history. They administered to patients a potentially fatal combination of carbon dioxide gas. They used this to successfully treat a wide variety of psychiatric and even physical illnesses such as peptic ulcers. They were convinced that they would revolutionize psychiatry; patients would be cured of even the most troubling psychiatric disorders with only 2-3 in office treatments with the gas!
The patients received brief treatments, during which time they lost consciousness, had a vivid sense of nearly dying, and even a life review. They received complete pre- and post-treatment evaluations including extensive psychiatric and psychological profiles. Their resultant transformation was carefully compared to a control group of patients who breathed the harmless gas nitrous oxide (laughing gas).
The cops almost snuffed me out when i was a teenager... a case of mistaken identity. Swat officers, swarm of police cars, helicopter, the whole shabang. After words one cop told me how lucky i was to not have moved my hands from my sweater or else he would have shot me.CRAZY DAY.