I think I'd be pegged a bit of a nut no matter what era I was in! The thing I always wonder about it having epilepsy in another age- having seizures that are totally misunderstood and being labeled a witch. It's interesting how these things happen.

If you are interested in phantom pain, I would recommend looking up the work of V.S. Ramachandran- I had the pleasure of taking a class from him at UCSD, and he's done some really cool work on this. There's a clip from NOVA that's really a good watch. He does this "mirror therapy" on people who have phantom pain, and it seems to work really nicely. Magically almost. It makes me wonder sometimes if we focus on the limbs that do work if it will convince our brains to make our affected limbs to be less painful. (That sounds so simplistic, but that is what mirror therapy breaks down to... and no, no implication that this means anyone is crazy!) But at the end of the day, it all really is in our brains- I mean, that's where everything is!

Thank you for this though provoking subject and discussion!

Lynn