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Botox : Keep A Straight Face

Great article, Eric. My sister treated herself to a course of botox last year, but one of her eyebrows got stuck slightly higher, with a hilarious resulting quizzical expression that almost made me wet myself. I'd say like any caring sibling, it enhanced my mood no end. Actually we set a mirror up so my sister could try to frown, and to level her brows, without success. Probably one of the funniest times we've had together as adults without alcohol involved.
 
Very interesting article Eric. Makes sense, it's very difficult to feel happy when forcing myself to frown and visa versa.

LOL at "Botox can damage relationships and cause those that use it to lose friends", this may also have something to do with how surreal and unnatural it looks, as we are more attracted to and feel more comfortable around things we understand, or can read.
 
Adds a little more meaning to "act the way you want to feel", doesn't it? Thanks for posting this Eric! I've read one other study that says that people who have had botox don't get angry as often or stay angry as long because they can't make angry expressions.
 
I think I'll ask my sister if she felt slightly confused until her eyebrows levelled again!:rofl:
 
ceduke said:
Adds a little more meaning to "act the way you want to feel", doesn't it? Thanks for posting this Eric! I've read one other study that says that people who have had botox don't get angry as often or stay angry as long because they can't make angry expressions.
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DYK, I've been thinking about that article off and on all day, and I had not thought of that.

On another note, there are various types or expressions of Parkinson's Disease/Parkinsonism. From the more commonly recognizable tremors...to the paralytic or nearly or progressively paralytic kind. From 1961 to 1994 (ish) the doctors had pretty much, by exclusion, diagnosed my grandmother with Multiple Sclerosis. But it, thankfully, was very atypically slowly progressive. She died of stroke complications in 2001.
Anyhoo, from the early 1990's to 2001, they seemed to reconsider their diagnosis and lean toward Parkinsonism. Of the progressively paralytic kind. Which makes me think, retrospectively, if her facial expressions diminished in the last decade of her life. (Maybe?) And was she aware of that. (I'm thinking 'no'.)
 
Hmmmm, so do you think Botox could become a game enhancing drug in poker?
 
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