The Jonas Brothers were recently on the cover of Rolling Stone, and while the article about the band was interesting (more on that in another post) what I found most intriguing was a comment from neuropsychiatrist Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of the bestselling book, The Female Brain.
Brizendine likened the screaming of teenage girls when they see their favorite pop idol to a heroin high.
Seriously!
Brizendine tells Rolling Stone writer Jason Gay:
"There's a thing in biology we call synchrony. Basically, one girl affects another affects another, and it becomes a domino effect building up to that level of hysteria. They are getting all these brain hits of dopamine, and also oxytocin, which is a love-and-bonding hormone. Teenage girls have so much estrogen, which just catapults the level of dopamine and oxytocin in the brain, creating this sort of ecstatic rush in themselves and others. It truly is a state of ecstatic love."
The article says further that "the release of dopamine in a screaming teenage girl's brain upon seeing her pop idols is like 'injecting heroin.' Being with other screaming girls, she says, only makes the effect wilder."
Well, now that explains it.
Considering how addictive heroin is, it's no wonder why, when you get thousands of teenaged girls at a Jonas Brother concert (or a Hawk Nelson concert, as my deafened hearing can attest), the atmosphere is nothing but total frenzy. One girl screams, another follows suit, and before you know it all the pop idol has to do is step up to the microphone and all common sense flies out the window.
Maybe we should stop sending heroin addicts to methadone clinics and just start sending them to Jonas Brothers concerts?
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I get screams like that when I take the stage too. . . But instead of heroin, it's a high likened to getting hit with a brick. . . ugly drummers get no groupies!
Quote:"Maybe we should stop sending heroin addicts to methadone clinics and just start sending them to Jonas Brothers concerts?"
I came across this article for this very reason. Years ago I read how a clinician taught heroin addicts how to get a heroin high from meditation. Thus, they were easily cured of their addiction, because they no longer needed the drug to get high. This, along with counseling, cured addicts. But, as I recall, funding ended, and so did the program.
I have been looking for the original article about the meditation cure for heroin addicts and haven't been able to find it. If anyone knows of it, please send me the link, as I want to try to get greater support for this effort. As some of you may know, heroin addiction is a great problem in many parts of the world. I believe greater awareness of the power of meditation to cure addictions could also alleviate other drug dependencies, both illegal and legal (e.g., Px drug dependency).
Phil (pnova@prodigy.net)
Phil,
I can't see it as a cure but prayer has been used by the AA to help people overcome alcoholism. My understanding is that like meditation, it offers them a direction to think in when the craving hits.
On your request, I don't know if this is what you're looking for but a simple google search brought me to this page: http://www.eleusis.us/well-program/meditation.php
Peace
look you ppl should know what it is like before you start talking about it. and that is bull about the med. part i dont care what u think that wouldn't help n e 1 i no.
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