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    I caught this commercial on tv and was sure I'd stumbled onto an SNL short...you won't believe the depth Big Pharma has sunk in creating this one! And after all of us have been treated for uncontrollable laughing OR crying, they'll nail us for stoicism...

    (For those of you who are unable to watch the video now, it is worth a save for later!)

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Hey....a cure for ascension. Thank God.

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    Hysterical!

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Uncontrollable laughter, tears or other random signs of being alive...now we can´t have that, can we.?

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    That's hilarious...omg!! So we're sick if we're emotional....ok!

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Oh theres a name for it alright LOL!!!! PBA (Pile Bull Ahead) Or whtever else u want to name it...


    This season I heard a commercial on the radio tht dropped my jaw...It was an advertisement for a strip club...saying how Santa will be there enjoying the club..Lol Hahaha HoHoHo go get em Santa!!

    Sincerely theres been a lot of jaw dropping for me lately...
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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Doctors drink the same Kool-Aid that the rest of the people do...they watch the same TV shows, buy food at the same supermarkets, go to the same churches...so they're as dumbed-down as everyone else. They fall for the malarkey, too. It's easy to "discover" new diseases if you just make them up! Almost as easy as hiding natural healing that's existed all along, almost as easy as letting people know that prevention is simple and natural.

    I would say that anyone who trusts doctors at all is a moron, but sadly some people I like and respect have fallen for the paradigm. It's their misfortune. My cousin's wife who is diabetic and on dialysis has an abscess on her foot - the doctors are talking about amputation. I gave them a bottle of tea tree oil and showed them how to use it, and said I knew other simple treatments that at the very least would do no harm, and would almost surely result in rapid improvement. Did they use it or listen? Nope....hell, if I was looking at losing a foot I'd put kerosene or ketchup on it if it might help! Another friend, also diabetic and overweight, has severe back pain and sciatica for which he takes strong pain meds. I offered reiki and was turned down. He trusts his doctor even though the result is that he has to spend most of his time in bed.

    These people suffer from MTS (Medical Trust Syndrome) and I fear the cure has not been discovered.
    Dammit, honey! You left the seat down again!

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    i have a disease for them , its called STFU

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Quote Posted by GreenGuy (here)
    Doctors drink the same Kool-Aid that the rest of the people do...they watch the same TV shows, buy food at the same supermarkets, go to the same churches...so they're as dumbed-down as everyone else. They fall for the malarkey, too. ...
    Oh yes, very true. Most aware people would be astounded by how little nutritional training is required of medical students to get an MD, and (as far as I know) there is ZERO mention of herbal therapies. It makes perfect sense - to the Big Pharma corporations that control medicine. "Primary care" physicians first tier of medical care is to prescribe some pills. If the pills do not work, the prescriptions are changed - to other pills. If that still doesn't work, the medical diagnostic arm of the Big Medicine Mafia gets to make some money with MRI, CAT, and PET scans, and laboratory testing. It never even occurs to these doctors that Oil of Oregano, or Turmeric Curcumin, or Cannabis Oil, or nutritional gut therapy, or any of the other thousands of natural remedies might help or cure their patient - these doctors are deliberately "mushroomed" and the medical literature deliberately does not even mention alternative treatments (or, at best, says "promising...further testing required...", and at worst labels anything outside their corporate realm as "quackery.")

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    These people suffer from MTS (Medical Trust Syndrome) and I fear the cure has not been discovered.
    hahahahaha well, the treament is education - from the ground up. We have to be the educators. What I find effective is NOT to lecture (there is always resistance) but to share personal accounts. For instance, telling friends and family that I had one of the worst flu bugs of my entire life, one so bad I literally wondered if it could kill me, and took Oil of Oregano capsules every 3 or 4 hours... and was immensely better in 8 hours and cured within 24 (other than being exhausted from the battle.) Every time I have told that story, I can see in people's eyes that it connects - a light bulb goes on. I'm not saying they are ready to reject modern Western medicine and instantly go herbal or Ayurvedic, but cracks start to form and a little bit of light seeps in.

    Dennis

    p.s. The PBA commercial makes me want to cry.. or laugh, uncontrollably. Guess I had better go see a drug rep, er, I mean primary care physician.


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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Sh!t, I think I want PBA. Those people look like they're having a blast! If there was no audio I might have thought they were having a party or something, minus the 1 or 2 cryers.

    Create madness, treat that madness with pharmaceuticals, which creates further madness, which of course calls for more pharmaceuticals (which creates more madness).

    I'm tempted to call it a pretty smart move by the ptb, but it's really only smart in the presence of idiots...which is what the vast majority have become. Of course the vast majority are on mind numbing pharmaceuticals, which is affecting their decision making. A certain presence of mind is required to stop taking those drugs, one unaffected by drugs...but being on these drugs, they are very unlikely to attain it. Point out this circle of insanity to a roomful of these folks and you risk being labeled insane yourself. Oh, and the cure for your insanity? Why drugs of course!

    Its like curshicella so brilliantly said: next they'll nail us for stoicism.

    P.s. in rapid fire voice: reading this post may result in vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, tachardia, vertigo, hives, kidney and or liver failure, and swelling of the breasts. Please contact your doctor if you.suffer from any of these symptoms ( he will then likely give you.more drugs to alleviate them, which will have further side effects...which will of course call for more drugs)
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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Here it comes...Equilibrium.

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    I get so tired of living with moderate-to-severe cognitive dissonance.
    Dammit, honey! You left the seat down again!

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Oh yeah. If your brain is not sufficiently numb; if it is still clicking over and thinking on its own... we've got a cure for that.



    What I can scarcely believe is that this commercial actually ran. Omg: I've just woken up from a long, wild coma and it's - what? - 2014? [Selene wanders off in a disassociated daze...]


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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    ive had PBA since i can remember and i can still drive a car !

    Sometimes i laugh at people in the over taking lane when i pull up beside them and tell them their tyre is flat ... the look of panick make me laugh un controllably

    and i sigh , then i just keep driving ...i think i have PTB ... i mean PBS ... what is it again ?

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    I realise the OP is raising the question of the insane and distasteful habit of advertising pharmaceuticals on US television, and the eagerness with which corporations leap to label conditions so that they can sell you a medication but...

    When my mum was in being treated in a rehabilitation unit, there was a lady in the neighbouring bed who had had a stroke. She had PBA. It is not a matter of a few tears at the wrong time, or a smile at an inopportune moment. She said it was like "crying without feeling sad and laughing without feeling happy".

    The point is that it is a) uncontrollable b) unpredictable c) causes people to remove themselves from social interaction d) very intense and can be exhausting e) an expression of emotion that is disconnected from the emotion that is actually being felt ie it is inappropriate f) caused by a physical change in the brain

    It is not a "new condition" that has been invented: it's been documented for decades.

    You might think it unimportant, but for someone who experiences this as a result of a stroke, or MND, or MS, or a brain injury, or Alzheimer's etc, it is yet another painful symptom of the bigger problem that they are having to deal with. If people's lives can be made a little easier

    If I had PBA and it could be alleviated by taking medication, allowing me to rise to the challenge of dealing with the underlying cause a little better, I would leap at the chance.

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    Quote You might think it unimportant, but for someone who experiences this as a result of a stroke, or MND, or MS, or a brain injury, or Alzheimer's etc, it is yet another painful symptom of the bigger problem that they are having to deal with. If people's lives can be made a little easier

    If I had PBA and it could be alleviated by taking medication, allowing me to rise to the challenge of dealing with the underlying cause a little better, I would leap at the chance.

    Touché Loungelizard.... you bring up a good point...

    I wouldn't doubt such symptoms could debilitate a person or be experienced, especially with electronic frequency run a muck throughout our atmosphere

    However, for me and I would suspect others, the way in which our society addresses these "situations" is a lot of what people are frustrated--tired of.


    I don't know how it is in your neck of the wood, but anyone observing where I am can clearly see the ridiculous callous severe lack of compassion regarding pharmaceuticals and people dependency on PILLS. Its a sad state of affairs.

    The shenanigans of naming every new "problem" on the horizon making individuals suffer and take a DRAWER full of pills WHICH was ORIGINALY created by the system it self IS REPULSIVE
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    Quote Posted by CD7 (here)
    Touché Loungelizard.... you bring up a good point...

    I wouldn't doubt such symptoms could debilitate a person or be experienced, especially with electronic frequency run a muck throughout our atmosphere

    However, for me and I would suspect others, the way in which our society addresses these "situations" is a lot of what people are frustrated--tired of.


    I don't know how it is in your neck of the wood, but anyone observing where I am can clearly see the ridiculous callous severe lack of compassion regarding pharmaceuticals and people dependency on PILLS. Its a sad state of affairs.

    The shenanigans of naming every new "problem" on the horizon making individuals suffer and take a DRAWER full of pills WHICH was ORIGINALY created by the system it self IS REPULSIVE
    Yes CD7 - I realised that this could be partly down to cultural differences: I am looking through European eyes, where the only pharmaceutical advertising we see is occasional ads for cold and hay fever remedies.

    I've spent a fair bit of time in the US, and the way in which these corporations advertise directly to the consumer is totally bizarre! Not quite sure how it works...do people actually demand specific medications based on what they've seen on TV?

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    Quote I've spent a fair bit of time in the US, and the way in which these corporations advertise directly to the consumer is totally bizarre! Not quite sure how it works...do people actually demand specific medications based on what they've seen on TV?
    Only ads for cold and hay fever LOL! Well we have a lot more interesting "issues" in our commercials from Viagra to depression, anxiety, restless leg syndrome and the list goes on! Actually don't have a TV anymore so im not up on the latest commercials but im sure there still there....

    Also the problems of being overprescribed meds (to a lot of young people lately) occurs ALOT in the military. People are diagnosed with u name it...it runs the gamut, but the most popular is paranoia-anxiety disorders. I know two 30 year olds who are taking bottles of pills and they also have heart problems--one from taking too many meds--which incidentally his 35 year old sister passed away this year from a pill overdose.

    And im not even mentioning the Pill Mills!!! These are loaded with all the codons--oxy codon, muscle relaxers etc etc... These are being prescribed to ALOT of young people for anxiety, ADHD, sleep disorders...They demand it, especially after they've been prescribed over time they become addicted--many of the prescribed drugs are addicting-- You know I could go on, but im getting nausious talking about it.....I think u get the idea...
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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    ....,,,,.

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    Default Re: "PBA": New disease/drug commercial - unbelievable!

    Help ! I fell over laughing,now I'm crying because I can't get up from laughing....wait laughing so hard I'm crying.Ah there that's better! Idk maybe I'm just sick.

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