There are also LSD cookers, predating ecstasy by decades. Edit: doesn’t discount your theory though.
I think the term is evolving and it’s more moved from the drugs to more that there is a certain pattern of mental thought associated with it. A fried or cooked brain causing strange patterns and behaviours.
I used to work with a very intelligent lady, drug and alcohol free, who had a bad time through menopause and I would now described as “cooked”. All the conspiracy theories regurgitated within 3 years from zero prior.
Since there are studies of Facebook causing changes in the brain, can you be “cooked” from Facebook usage?
It definitely applies to mental illness now, and probably other drugs, sure. I’ll bet money that people on opium made reference to cooking in the 1700s or something, not sure if they were getting organ failure due from overheating.
I think it’s originated from people’s brains overheating on ecstacy… Could be wrong there.
There are also LSD cookers, predating ecstasy by decades. Edit: doesn’t discount your theory though.
I think the term is evolving and it’s more moved from the drugs to more that there is a certain pattern of mental thought associated with it. A fried or cooked brain causing strange patterns and behaviours.
I used to work with a very intelligent lady, drug and alcohol free, who had a bad time through menopause and I would now described as “cooked”. All the conspiracy theories regurgitated within 3 years from zero prior.
Since there are studies of Facebook causing changes in the brain, can you be “cooked” from Facebook usage?
It definitely applies to mental illness now, and probably other drugs, sure. I’ll bet money that people on opium made reference to cooking in the 1700s or something, not sure if they were getting organ failure due from overheating.
Obligatory; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlcsjM57vM