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Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
By hiding the light with a nice thick layer of oil?
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
with a some ground up anti-depressants and a flashlight. hope to catch some happy shrimp.
Since you can't really put a shrimp on a shrink-couch and ask it about its feelings,
Of course you can!
it is very hard to say whether the shrimp are "suicidal" or whether their fear responses are being blunted.
Ah well, that's true, since they aren't so big in the "answering" department.
The enemies of Democracy are
They don't fear the Reaper
Whereas some people see disturbing potential side effects of our best attempts to regulate brain chemistry, I see a business opportunity and a way to meet heavily-tattooed hot short girls.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I still feel glad whenever I feel any form of anxiety
Does that worry you? If you can get worked up about anxiety inducing gladness, here comes the total bliss feedback loop! Just watch your heart rate, please.
Eat some shrimp; you'll feel better.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
I bet the sea birds eating the shrimp have high levels of Prozac too... humm.. chocolate seagulls....
You, uh, see those things on the ground by the seagulls? Those aren't tootsie rolls. Just a public service notification here.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
There's depressed shrimp, bipolar shrimp, schizophrenic shrimp, manic depressive shrimp, pyromaniac shrimp (particularly dangerous at the moment), dementia shrimp, autistic shrimp, megalomanic shirmp, obsessive-compulsive shrimp, sleep walking shrimp, voyeuristic shrimp, shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.
What's the point? Struggle in the plankton race just to end up in some human's scampi? You work and work and end up covered in cocktail sauce? That's it, goodbye cruel world!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp are the wingnuts of the sea. There's suicidal shrimp, paranoid shrimp, depressed shrimp, manic shrimp, psychotic shrimp, neurotic shrimp, borderline personality shrimp, obsessive compulsive shrimp, narcissistic shrimp, agoraphobic shrimp, social anxiety disordered shrimp, schizophrenic shrimp, munchausen's by proxy shrimp, cyclothymic shrimp, anorexic shrimp, catatonic shrimp, tourette's shrimp, PTSD shrimp, Asperger's shrimp, that's... that's about it.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton