The New Yorker has an article this week about people who have those self-destructive instincts, and whose bodies are literally out to kill them. They'll stab out their own eyes and whimper for other people to help them stop themselves, etc. It's crazy.
...Right, it's called Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, and the article is "An Error In The Code".
Didn't some guy on Grey's Anatomy swallow a bunch of doll heads? I forget why he did this though. But trust me, it did happen on that fictional doctor show I used to watch.
wow yeah. seriously i was just sitting in the common room at uni and this guy is assembling some kind of selving apparatus...and he went out of the room. i had a REALLY strong urge to pick up his drill and see what its like to have it drill into my leg. fight the urge...FIGHT IT.
shelving* ... p.s. i was eating mushroom quiche at the time.
I know this is an old entry and you don't know me, but I just HAD to comment.
This is more stupid than purposely self-destructive-- About two years ago, we used to have a lot of internet problems. My parents told us to just pull the cord (I have no idea which one, but that may become clear) out for 30 seconds when it stopped working. 30 seconds to me is forever, so once I was standing there, holding the cord, waiting and waiting, and just decided, "Hey, I am putting this in my mouth." And I did. HOLY MOSES was that a bad idea. There was so much power coursing through me it took me a second to even register it. Then I promptly took it out and looked at it funny as if to say "Why did you just shock me as I have never been shocked before??" My older brother, who was sitting right there at the time, was speechless. He didn't understand how I could have so little common sense.
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