--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > ROFLMAO ! ! ! > > > > This study, conducted by pro-SSRS people states that Ravi Shankar's > > technique is quote: "inferior to electroconvulsive therapy". > > It also was less effective than a pharmaceutical drug. No better than > > a placebo. > > http://www.aolresearch.org/pdf/Janakiramaiah%20et%20al%202000.pdf > > > > Next Dr. Pete will be saying that how do I know Electro-Convulsive > > therapy is no good if I haven't tried it, and that I shouldn't be so > > closed minded and go ahead and try it just because a bunch of loonies > > did. > > Not quite what the study concludes, quoting it, "Within the limitations > of the design (lack of double blind conditions), it can be concluded > that, although inferior to ECT, SKY > [Sudharshan Kriya Yoga] can be a > potential alternative to drugs in melancholia as a first line treatment."
Actually ECT and hard-core psychiatric drugs have been shown to be more effective than TM for severe depression and behavioral problems. Not only more effective than, but actually required to subdue and quell the problematic effects of TM practice and/or long rounding for some. I know personally of at least one ECT case. 1972, a woman from a prominent DC family, brother (and she) were teachers, required ECT for severe depression and other problems. (Rick may remember her.) TM was not effective in treating the problems, and its practice may hve exacerbated them, and even casued them. I have second-hand knowledge of a number or similar cases where TM teachers, MIU students, or long-term meditators required institutionalization -- or in some sad cases, committed suicide to end the problems TM could not (and may have exacerbated). As far as drugs, I recall Dr Elliot regularly use Thorizine (sp), the same drug used to calm really bad LSD experiences, to calm flipped-out rounders on TTCs. Something TM could not cure. And in these cases, did exacerbate. TMO policy even openly "acknowledges", by implication, that it is ineffective in curing things treated by a therapist. Thus the ban on people who have seen a therapist to go on sidhis or TTC courses. Even going to a marriage counselor was grounds for rejection to courses. Thus by implication, TM was deemed by its own leaders as ineffective in treating even minor porblems. (In fact, going to a marriage counselor may be a sign of health.) (That was the policy in the 70's, I am not sure of current status. Possibly its even now stricter) So its not surprising that SKY was not as effective, but nearly so, ast ECT in treating severe depression. Possibly the lesser side effects, presumably, of SKY -- releative to ECT -- might make it a worthy treatment option. Have any studies been done comparing TM and ECT? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
