Word: schmoedipus
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...Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result of the short gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible...
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