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I just remembered this today, I had forgot all about it. My mother is a very gullible person, and when I was a teenager she took me to see this "doctor". He had his own little practice and everything, but what kind of "doctor" he actually was has never been elaborated upon. He made me hold something that I realize was most likely an e-meter, but this guy was no Scientologist. He later put me in a room, alone, with a device with many dials on it that he set to arbitrary positions, for maybe twenty minutes - this thing had no screen or anything that could convey any data so that was confusing. He "prescribed" this...thing. Now here is the most confusing part - it is almost unbelievable - he gave me a clear and elongated plastic bead, in a plastic bag. I was supposed to carry this in my pocket most of the day, and it would make me feel better. I was to never take out of the bag or it would, who knows, lose its magic? My mother said it would "absorb toxins" or some rot. I honestly don't know why I bothered with this shit, maybe it was the depths of completely untreated depression that made me not give a shit that she dragged me to this asshole twice a month. I put the thing in my pocket because, hey, it couldn't hurt me. I believed absolutely none of this nonsense. I called him the "voodoo doctor" whenever I talked about him to my mother, I was in the midst of my "asshole atheist" phase and eventually put my foot down and told my mother she was a gullible moron and refused to deal with the guy anymore. (This did not go over well, but at least I stopped wasting my time with this nonsense). I really, really need to know what the fuck this guy was doing. Is this some specific scam nonsense or did he make it all up? Someone has to know!