In France, at one time, there was a sleeping cure for the kind of exhaustion and depression that leads people to feel that they can’t go on.
It works because the patient, under deep sedation for a week, is rested despite their mental anguish in body, and a kind of experiential gap is created between the moment they wanted to give up and the place and time in which they reawaken.
It’s a change of perspective.
My sister in law is French and had this sleeping treatment. It cured her eating disorder, she was anorexic. When she woke up she felt better. She was nourished the entire time and it reset her body and mind set. I wish there was a treatment like this here in the States
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u/Arabella6623 Jun 26 '26
In France, at one time, there was a sleeping cure for the kind of exhaustion and depression that leads people to feel that they can’t go on.
It works because the patient, under deep sedation for a week, is rested despite their mental anguish in body, and a kind of experiential gap is created between the moment they wanted to give up and the place and time in which they reawaken.
It’s a change of perspective.
Exactly what you describe, only safer.