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		<title>Arts and Crafts a la Nursing School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an assignment in one of my classes this term I gave a presentation on IUDs to a bunch of nurse practitioners who work in the Multnomah County teen health clinics. I did a PowerPoint presentation, and after every few slides I inserted one with a question. The idea was to give prizes to whoever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For an assignment in one of my classes this term I gave a presentation on IUDs to a bunch of nurse practitioners who work in the Multnomah County teen health clinics. I did a PowerPoint presentation, and after every few slides I inserted one with a question. The idea was to give prizes to whoever got the right answer first, but of course then I had to figure out what to give as prizes. The default is usually candy, but that just seems wrong, since nurses are supposed to be all about promoting healthy lifestyles. It also had to be something really, really cheap, because I was pretty much going to have to buy it with whatever change I could dig out from under the mats and between the cushions in my car.</p>
<p>My clinical site is at one of the clinics, and the bowls of brightly colored free condoms they have sitting around got me to thinking about maybe doing something with condoms. I came home that night and typed &#8220;condom crafts&#8221; into <a href="http://www.google.com/" class="kblinker" target="_blank" title="More about google &raquo;">Google</a>. What I ended up with was condom roses. So the next day I grabbed a couple of handfuls of condoms from the clinic, used the spare change from the back seat to buy some wire and floral tape, and started experimenting. (My 19-year-old&#8217;s expression, when he walked into the living room and found me sitting there with a pile of condoms on my lap, was priceless!)</p>
<p>The roses were a hit; everyone wanted one! Here&#8217;s a photo I snapped with my camera phone:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ladylong/2090922762/" title="Condom Roses by Geek2Nurse, on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/" class="kblinker" target="_blank" title="More about flickr &raquo;">Flickr</a>&#8220;><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2258/2090922762_c12171d964_m.jpg" width="240" height="181" alt="Condom Roses" class="center" /></a></p>
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		<title>Just When You Thought You Were Finally Safe&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/11/08/just-when-you-thought-you-were-finally-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geek2Nurse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another rerun&#8230; sorry, nursing school is HARD!!! I&#8217;ll write something fresh just as soon as I can spare a few brain cells, I promise. Meanwhile&#8230; This essay was written as a followup to the essay Valuable Information for my Family and Friends, concerning how to protect yourself from alien abductions. Enjoy. Darn. It turns out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Another rerun&#8230; sorry, nursing school is HARD!!! I&#8217;ll write something fresh just as soon as I can spare a few brain cells, I promise. Meanwhile&#8230; This essay was written as a followup to the essay <a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/10/valuable-information-for-my-family-and-friends/">Valuable Information for my Family and Friends</a>, concerning how to protect yourself from alien abductions. Enjoy.</em></p>
<p>Darn. It turns out that the thought screen helmet isn&#8217;t going to be enough, folks &#8212; sorry about that. Not only do we have to worry about aliens invading our brains, but apparently there&#8217;s also the more local problem of electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers. Unfortunately, Velostat is ineffective against the government&#8217;s brain scanning and mind reading technology. So even with our new thought screen helmets securely duct-taped to our heads (because aliens do not have the manual dexterity required to remove them then) we are still at risk of subversion and mental enslavement!</p>
<p>So, don&#8217;t put away your tools just yet, because you&#8217;re also going to need an A.F.D.B. (Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie). You will find comprehensive instructions at <a href="http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html" target="newwindow">this website</a>.</p>
<p>(Note: although an AFDB is actually adequate protection against alien psychotropic mind control, unlike Velostat it does not seem to interfere with the electromagnetic field used for levitation; so you will probably want to use both materials in order to ensure total protection.)</p>
<p>Incidentally, it seems that although alien abductors seem primarily concerned with invading human minds, the government is equally interested in intruding into the minds of our pets, who are rendered even more vulnerable than ourselves due to their less developed sense of &#8220;self&#8221;. So you will need to purchase enough aluminum foil to make beanies for your beloved pets as well. Pregnant women should also begin covering their bellies with foil before their second trimester, to &#8220;ensure that harmful psychotronic engrams are not permanently stamped into the developing brain of your unborn child.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another item worthy of mention is that tin may not be as effective as aluminum foil, so you will want to be certain that you are using genuine aluminum foil to protect yourself and your loved ones, as explained in this website exerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most experts agree that tin does have an effect but opinions are divided as to whether or not it is as good as aluminum. A small, but vocal, contingent even argues that tin is superior, but they are held by most to be the lunatic fringe of Foil Deflector Beanie science. I would advise people wishing to build a Deflector Beanie to stick with aluminum whenever possible since it is a proven technology.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>We <u>certainly</u> wouldn&#8217;t want to be considered members of the lunatic fringe of foil deflector beanie science, so let&#8217;s stick to what&#8217;s tried and true!</p>
<p>Those of you who are Amiga and Linux users can also benefit from the additional protection of the MindGuard psychotronic mind-control protection software, which you can find <a href="http://zapatopi.net/mindguard.html" target="newwindow">here</a>. According to the website,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;MindGuard works by leveraging your computer&#8217;s aluminum-based innards to both detect and emit psychotronic energy using advanced quasi-quantum techniques. Once a mind-control signal is identified and analyzed, MindGuard can generate a specially tuned anti-signal that will jam the incoming signal. If MindGuard is unable to properly identify the signal, it will generate psychotronic white noise to ensure the signal&#8217;s harmful message is scrambled.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And a final note: Be sure to construct your own AFDB. Although commercial versions are apparently available, the official AFDB information website advises,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do not purchase these pre-made AFDBs, even if the seller seems trustworthy. They may contain backdoors, pinholes, integrated psychotronic circuitry or other methods that actually promote mind control.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Sheesh. Seems you just can&#8217;t trust ANYBODY, these days!</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/10/valuable-information-for-my-family-and-friends/">Valuable Information for my Family and Friends</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/15/more-on-alien-abductions/">More on Alien Abductions</a></p>
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		<title>Orgone Energy Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geek2Nurse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named <a href="http://www.orgone.org/aaintro00.htm" target="newwindow">Wilhelm Reich</a>. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the human id. In the process of pursuing this goal, he discovered an omnipresent form of life energy that he named <em><a href="http://www.orgone.org/articles/ax9kelley1a.htm" target="newwindow">Orgone Energy</a></em> which emitted blue light and seemed to have positive psychological and physiological effects. So he created a device called the <em>Orgone Energy Accumulator</em> that was basically a box you could sit inside of that would collect and concentrate orgone energy into your body.</p>
<p>Well, me being me and all, this sort of piqued my curiosity. I liked the idea of a box that would fill me with energy, and blue is such a pretty color, too! So I went off in search of more information about this Orgone stuff. I had absolutely NO idea where it was going to take me. It&#8217;s simply staggering. (If you haven&#8217;t bought your <a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/10/valuable-information-for-my-family-and-friends/">Velostat </a> yet it&#8217;s okay, because after you read this you may find there are more imminent dangers you need to shield yourself against. Oh, and you might want to hold off on that flu shot, too.)</p>
<p>It turns out that orgone energy does all sorts of stuff. For instance, orgone energy is why the sky is blue. It&#8217;s what makes gravity work, and is what produces orgasms. Concentrated and directed properly using a device called a <em>Cloud-Buster</em> (which makes use of the principles of the Orgone Energy Accumulator), it can be used to bring rain to drought-plagued areas. I know, I know, this sounds like a pretty amazing claim, but that&#8217;s only because you haven&#8217;t yet seen <a href="http://www.orgonelab.org/graphics/ResearchSummary/OROPWAdata.jpg" target="newwindow">this graph</a>, in an article published by the <a href="http://www.orgonelab.org/ResearchSummary2.htm" target="newwindow">Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory</a> in SW Oregon, showing the rainfall in Washington State during the month of September, 1988. As you will note, for the entire first two weeks of September, there was practically no rain whatsoever. Then, for four days beginning on Sept 13, cloudbusters were used to stimulate rain, and as you can see, it immediately began raining. &#8220;In fact,&#8221; the article says, &#8220;a pulsatory cycle of rains developed over the entire Pacific NW after these operations, and continued for several months thereafter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Are you getting this? RAIN. In the FALL. In THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. For MONTHS ON END! I am so stunned that I don&#8217;t even know how to comment on this, so I will simply have to rely on each reader&#8217;s own linguistic imagination to supply him with an appropriate exclamation. Perhaps something like, &#8220;Holy Cloudbusters, Batman!&#8221;</p>
<p>Okay, while you&#8217;re scanning your vocabulary for an applicable comment, I have to digress from Orgon Energy for a moment, so you will be able to understand what comes later.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/mc/mctotalcontrol12jul02.shtml" target="newwindow">this website</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>The Ionosphere is being manipulated by US government scientists using the Alaskan transmitter called HAARP, (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) which sends focused radiated power to heat up sections of the Ionosphere, which bounces power down again. ELF waves produced from HAARP, when targeted on selected areas, can weather-engineer and create mood changes affecting millions of people.</p></blockquote>
<p>The human brain is highly susceptible, it turns out, to ELF waves. And humans with special mental powers like ESP and such are even <em>more</em> susceptible. So ELF waves are a tool for manipulating our brains. To complement HAARP, the US military is installing <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/dc/gwentowersbybyronweeks.shtml" target="newwindow">GWEN</a> towers all across the US, purportedly for use by cell phones. But what they <em>really</em> do is generate ELF waves, giving them the capability of mind control and &#8220;sending synthetic-telepathy as infrasound to victims with US government mind-control implants.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is where the flu shots come in. You know how the government urges us all to get flu shots every year, right? Well, that&#8217;s because there are these tiny implants that are  injected into millions of unsuspecting Americans with vaccines and flu shots. These <em>biochips</em> work their way through the bloodstream and lodge in the brain, enabling the government to broadcast &#8220;voices&#8221; directly into our heads. That&#8217;s right, folks, the US Government has developed nano-technology that can successfully penetrate the blood-brain barrier. You read it here first.</p>
<p>And as if the picture weren&#8217;t already bleak enough already&#8230; according to the same author, the chemtrails left behind as jets travel the skies are not really streams of water vapor as we were told by our high school physics teachers, but in fact they contain chemicals which alter our state of consciousness, an effect enhanced, as it happens, by the fluoride and selenium being added to our water supply. And YOU thought it was actually to prevent tooth decay, didn&#8217;t you? See how gullible you are?</p>
<p>He also notes that the majority of so-called alien abductions (which I touched on in a <a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/10/valuable-information-for-my-family-and-friends/">recent post</a>) are actually the work of the US military. They use these elaborately-staged hoaxes (using holographically-projected spaceships and other such high-tech illusions) as a decoy to distract our attention from the <em>actual</em> alien abductions (which do occur, but only rarely) and make it appear as if they are just the delusions of psychologically-imbalanced people, so we won&#8217;t take them seriously.</p>
<p>Get ready, because we have to make another digression before we get back to the original topic, which was &#8212; ummmm &#8212; what was it again?</p>
<p>OH, yes, Orgone Energy. Right.</p>
<p>But first you have to know about the &#8220;<a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_29.htm" target="newwindow">Reptilians</a>.&#8221; These are aliens who came to Earth thousands of years ago and interbred with humans, creating a number of hybrid bloodlines. These bloodlines, down through history, have been the source of the ruling families of the European nations (now you know why they only interbreed with their own &#8212; preservation of reptilian DNA!), as well as every single one of the US presidents. Yep, you got it. Our presidents, democrats and republicans alike, have all traced their heritage back to reptilian shape-shifting aliens (who, incidentally, must consume unspecified amounts of human blood in order to maintain their human appearance).</p>
<p>So, let&#8217;s recap for a moment, because we&#8217;ve covered a lot of territory and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a bit overwhelming to try and grasp it all at once.</p>
<p>The US government is putting into place a network of mind-control devices, and faking alien abductions (probably at taxpayer expense), to distract us from what&#8217;s REALLY going on, which is that the alien hybrid reptilian shape-shifters have actually been running the world all along, and are planning, at some point, to turn on all the ELF ray generators and turn us into their pawns, so that they can take over the world, which they are already in charge of. Wait. So they can&#8230; Ummm&#8230; Okay, let&#8217;s see&#8230; They&#8217;re evil and want to control our minds, but we don&#8217;t know it, because&#8230; ummm, because they&#8217;ve brainwashed us. Yeah, that&#8217;s it. No, wait&#8230; Oh, shoot. Well, never mind about all that. It&#8217;s really far too complicated for the average human to understand, so just do your best to grasp the high points, and leave the rest to those who are better able to comprehend the complex intricacies of such things. The important thing is to remember that you can&#8217;t trust the government. And don&#8217;t let anyone stick a needle in you, and don&#8217;t drink water. Or breathe. And stay away from cell phone towers. Other than that, you&#8217;re probably okay. Unless you get abducted by alians, or a stranger tries to trick you into getting into his black helicoptor, or a reptilian politician tries to drink your blood. In which case your velostat hat isn&#8217;t going to do you much good.</p>
<p>Anyway, now we can go back to Orgone Energy. Or, rather, its counterpart, <em><a href="http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/webcourse/lost/projects97/orgone.htm#DEADLY%20ORGONE%20RADIATION" target="newwindow">oranur</a></em>, also known as <em>deadly orgone radiation (DOR)</em>. This stuff, as you may have gathered from its name, is bad. And, it turns out, it accumulates in places where there are ELF waves. BUT, thanks to Dr. Reich, who managed to get the word out in spite of being thrown in jail by the FDA (or was it the FBI?) and dying there (<em>supposedly</em> from heart failure&#8230;) and having all of his books burned (twice!), we have the power of Orgone on our side.</p>
<p>This is where those funds you were saving to spend on Velostat may be put to better use. Alien abductions, the real ones anyway, are actually quite rare; but there are ELF-generating towers on practically every street corner! <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/dc/orgonegenindex.shtml" target="newwindow">This site</a> contains a number of Orgone energy-based tools for neutralizing DOR. You can even purchase your very own patio-sized cloud-buster variant, the chembuster. The author of the website was sent one to try out, and writes this testimonial:</p>
<blockquote><p>The very first day I set it up on the patio, we had a black helicopter visit us at 2 AM, hovering loudly about 150 feet overhead, and shining the brightest search light imaginable-going around and around our place- in an obvious attempt to both intimidate and video tape us inside our home using special infrared technology (which is standard equipment today, even on local police helicopters).</p></blockquote>
<p>If this makes you reluctant to purchase your own chembuster, he notes that since there are more of them in use now, the black helicoptors tend to ignore them, so you probably don&#8217;t have to worry about having this happen to you.</p>
<p>The volumes of information on these topics is overwhelming; I&#8217;ve just barely skimmed the surface here, and had to whittle it down to the bare minimum due to time constraints. If you want to learn more, I suggest that you start with <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/dc/" target="newwindow">The Adventures of Don and Carol</a>. I don&#8217;t think I can do these narratives justice, so I borrowed this review from the <a href="http://educate-yourself.org/" target="newwindow">Educate-Yourself.org</a> website:</p>
<blockquote><p>The episodes that make up the Adventures are drawn from the daily narrative that Don had written of his experiences in this country and abroad employing and deploying his anti-parasite (two legged variety) arsenal of orgone generators (the Chembuster, Holy Handgrenades, St Buster&#8217;s Button, and the Succor Punch) and the characters he encounters along the way: some friendly, some not; some human and others, not-so-human.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, and Dr. Carlson, if you&#8217;re reading this, I haven&#8217;t finished the reading for class tonight. Obviously your tantalizing distraction had a small part to play in this, so I hope you will take it into account before judging me too harshly!</p>
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		<title>More on Alien Abductions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geek2Nurse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following message from Mike Menkin today. He thanked me for posting his website (stopabductions.com) and offered some additional websites and information for me to share with you. The photograph he mentions is definitely worth a look! Subject: thought screen helmet Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:42 -0700 From: Mike Menkin Organization: Lasentec [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I received the following message from <a href="http://stopabductions.com/Bio.htm" target="otherwindow">Mike Menkin</a> today. He thanked me for posting his website (<a href="http://www.stopabductions.com/" target="otherwindow">stopabductions.com</a>) and offered some additional websites and information for me to share with you. The photograph he mentions is definitely worth a look!</p>
<blockquote><p>Subject:  thought screen helmet</p>
<p>Date:  Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:42 -0700<br />
From:  Mike Menkin<br />
Organization:  Lasentec</p>
<p>Thanks for posting stopabductions.com.  You may be interested in my other website, <a href="http://www.aliensandchildren.org/" target="otherwindow">aliensandchildren.org</a>.</p>
<p>For information on alien abductions see <a href="http://www.ufoabduction.com" target="otherwindow">ufoabduction.com</a></p>
<p>I still make thought screen helmets and give them to abductees to try.  They are not for sale.  It takes about four hours to make a helmet and costs about $35 in materials.</p>
<p>Your readers also may be interested in the <a href="http://stopabductions.com/gblHelp.htm" target="otherwindow">real photo of a real alien</a> on stopabductions.com and the section on intelligence.</p>
<p>Michael Menkin</p></blockquote>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/10/valuable-information-for-my-family-and-friends/">Valuable Information for my Family and Friends</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/11/08/just-when-you-thought-you-were-finally-safe/">Just When You Thought You Were Finally Safe&#8230;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geek2Nurse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midterms are looming, so I&#8217;m going to resort to entertaining my blog fans (yes, both of you!) with reruns for a few days, until I have time to think again. (I&#8217;m doing a lot of thinking, actually, but unless you enjoy reading about stoichiometry and redox reactions and limiting reactants and such, I&#8217;m pretty sure [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Midterms are looming, so I&#8217;m going to resort to entertaining my blog fans (yes, <strong>both</strong> of you!) with reruns for a few days, until I have time to think again. (I&#8217;m doing a lot of thinking, actually, but unless you enjoy reading about stoichiometry and redox reactions and limiting reactants and such, I&#8217;m pretty sure you&#8217;ll prefer the reruns.) So here&#8217;s a little bit I wrote one day when I was sitting around being sick, and entertaining myself by doing random <a href="http://www.google.com/" class="kblinker" target="_blank" title="More about google &raquo;">Google</a> searches and seeing what popped up:</em></p>
<p>Finally, the information we have all been waiting for: How to Make a Thought Screen Helmet. No more laying awake at night worrying that aliens are coming to abduct you! All you have to do is follow the simple instructions on <a href="http://www.stopabductions.com/">this website</a> to make your own <strong>thought-screen helmet</strong>, rendering you invulnerable to those pesky alien abductors.</p>
<p>According to this website,</p>
<blockquote><p>The thought screen helmet blocks telepathic communication between aliens and humans. Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with them using their telepathy.</p></blockquote>
<p>And an alien who cannot control your mind cannot abduct you. In fact, according to this website, in the past five years only TWO people wearing thought-screen helmets have been abducted! If that&#8217;s not a convincing statistic, I don&#8217;t know what is. I&#8217;m going to go right out and buy a case of velostat sheets!</p>
<p>This part is worrisome, though:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;However, people can still be overcome by the Mantis alien (leaders) direct hypnotic-staring procedure as described by David Jacobs in <a href="http://ufoabduction.com">ufoabduction.com</a>. New devices and methods to overcome their hypnotic control ability are being tested.</p></blockquote>
<p>So, in addition to washing your hands after using the bathroom, wearing your seatbelt and avoiding dark alleys in bad parts of town, PLEASE avoid making any direct eye-contact with mantis aliens.</p>
<p>Also, if you do remove your thought-screen helmet for any reason, be sure and put it in a secure place, because aliens like to steal them.</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/10/15/more-on-alien-abductions/">More on Alien Abductions</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.toastyfrog.net/2004/11/08/just-when-you-thought-you-were-finally-safe/">Just When You Thought You Were Finally Safe&#8230;</a></p>
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		<title>Wandering Wombs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading in my psych text recently about how back in pre-Freudian times when women suffered from &#8220;hysteria&#8221; they decided that it was caused by a &#8220;wandering womb&#8221;. The root word of &#8220;hysteria&#8221; is from a Greek word that means &#8220;uterus&#8221;. The malady had various manifestations, including spontaneous blindness, partial or even full paralysis, [...]]]></description>
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<p>I was reading in my psych text recently about how back in pre-Freudian times when women suffered from &#8220;hysteria&#8221; they decided that it was caused by a &#8220;wandering womb&#8221;. The root word of &#8220;hysteria&#8221; is from a Greek word that means &#8220;uterus&#8221;. The malady had various manifestations, including spontaneous blindness, partial or even full paralysis, inability to speak, unexplained pain in  various body parts, and of course a multitude of mental illnesses.</p>
<p>Since they thought then that only women suffered from this malady, they naturally deduced that it must be caused by the uterus, because men don&#8217;t have them. Yep. Then, to explain why the pains and paralysis would migrate to different parts of the body, they came up with the idea that women&#8217;s uteruses would &#8220;wander&#8221; around inside of them, wreaking havoc wherever they went.</p>
<p>It raised some interesting questions in my mind. As well as an observation or two. For instance:</p>
<p>What if a pregnant woman&#8217;s womb decided to &#8220;wander&#8221;?</p>
<p>Did other organs and body parts also spontaneously take off on jaunts around the anatomy?</p>
<p>Could it be that perhaps all those 18th and 19th century artists were actually realists, and that people back then actually LOOKED like that?</p>
<p>The whole corset thing suddenly makes a lot of sense, too. I&#8217;d be wearing a full body corset, myself. Lock those rebellious body parts down and keep them where they belong!</p>
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