After working on these issues for the past 150 years, Psych Central is pleased to announce a final, simple cure for mental illness.
“Yes, it’s been a long-time in the making, but we finally figured out how to cure mental illness,” said Founder and CEO of Psych Central, Dr. John Grohol. “The final push came 6 months ago, when we realized we had not only discovered the single mental illness gene, but how to deactivate it with simple products found in most people’s homes.”
The cure comes on the heels of over 150 years of mental illness being recognized as something needing treatment. Serious mental disorders — things such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and panic, ADHD — have long had a significant, negative impact in people’s lives. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on researchers in pursuing treatments for them.
Psych Central has been an innovator at the forefront of mental health research for most of that time. Begun in 1860 as a network of tin cans connected via baling wire, researchers at the Psych Central Institute learned pretty quickly that a lot more cans would be needed to meet the needs of a growing population interested in learning more about mental health concerns. The cans were procured after the world’s largest bean eating contest at that year’s World’s Fair.
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2 sentences down teh way, I realized this is a april fool’s prank
I smelled a rat as soon as I read the words “cure for mental illness”.
However, well done John, much thought, imagination and creativity went into this.
That was funny Thanks!!
OMIGOSH MOST HILARIOUS.
DocJohn, you’re awesome.
Love it! Thank you!
LOL very funny. You got me with the 150 yrs – so I’m the April Fool lol
Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.
Don’t try this at home lol
The date clicked as soon as I saw the headline, but the story’s hilarious anyway – the little touches like the tin cans and baling wire and contests of squeakiness are worthy of NPR’s annual 4/1 story. It’s a serious business but if we get too solemn to laugh we’re lost. Thanks!
lol wow, orange juice eh? Happy April Fools Day!
Nibbles?? Is that you?
-Mr. Squeak
“Side affects may include burning taste, shocking people patients contact to the point of unconsciousness, diarrhea, constipation, and hair growing on your tongue. Some patients have reported bad hair days and being attracted to heavy metal music. Please tell your doctor if you become irrationally crazy but believe you are the best you have ever been. This might be a sign of a condition known as ‘bugzaphoria’”.
lol, You know this would be hilarious is it wasn’t so dangerously close to the way things seem to work. My guess is that this cure will be mainstream inside of 10 years. Medical and mental health professionals will be exclaiming, “We don’t know how it works exactly, but it has saved millions of lives”.
i remember mr squeak quite warmly.
it is with deep regret that i ate him during one of my eating binges. the world will never be the same without his ratlike purr.
michael jackson will sing to him in rat heaven.