[UA] Here's an easy one

[Robin Pfeifer]

>>The phenomenon is not as rare as one might think: healthy people
>>deliberately setting out to rid themselves of one or more of their limbs,
>>with or without a surgeon's help. Why do pathologies sometimes arise as if
>>from nowhere? Can the mere description of a condition make it contagious?



On a related note, I have recently seen an article on people having
'antagonistic limbs' - due to a trauma to some part of their brain, one of
their arms or legs does unvoluntary and even openly hostile things - like
strangling them. They are forced to use their 'good' arm to hold the other
in check.

This world is weird.

Robin



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