Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Amok, Going Postal

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This site is about a conflict of human physiology that shaped history but was undetected until the 1960's.

In the entire history of man on the planet Earth this phenomenon was discovered only once.

It caused mental breaks for office workers.

You will find this material hard to believe.

This phenomenon is explained in first semester psychology lectures where students don't believe it either.

For that reason I wrote a demonstration that will allow you to experience the phenomenon.

The Everquest Connection page has the explanation and assumes you have not taken basic psychology.

The solution for this problem was the office Cubicle.

This site argues that the this phenomenon causes College Suicides and Missing Students.

The phenomenon causes mental events around the world, Chaco Canyon.

If you use computers in unprotected workspace such as homes, dorms, student apartments, and small business offices read ...Prevention... at the bottom of most pages.

Long term exposure can cause severely altered mental states. Qi Gong Kundalini Yoga

If you are visiting the site as part of a school project send the person responsible for controlling violence at your school to this site.

IED

The psychiatrists and psychologists are at it again. They have added another disorder to the list of bizarre behaviors believed to be connected to mental illness.

Surprisingly this one has a basis in Culture Bound Syndromes. CBS's are odd and troubling behaviors that happen around the world and are specific to local ethnic and cultural beliefs. It is recognized that some of them have common traits but different names and of course different beliefs of etiology.

Amok and Going Postal are two that involve sudden violence against people and things. They occur in Malaysia and the United States respectively. This site argues that this sudden violence seen in the CBS's and in IED is connected because it is caused by exposure to Subliminal Distraction. Each cultural group reacts differently to the onset of the dissociative mental break, if it happens. Exposure too-low to cause that event will have psychiatric symptoms. This is demonstrated in the mass insanity event aboard the Belgian Polar Expedition of 1898.

Sudden berserk violence began to be noticed among fur trappers of the early 1800's. Mountain men, fur trappers, would rather risk over-wintering alone than risk that their cabin mate would have an episode of Cabin Fever and attempt to kill them. There was never a solution for that problem but the small single-rooms of trapper's cabins would allow the "special circumstances" for exposure from visual Subliminal Distraction. These mental events still occur in less violent forms such as panic attacks aboard US Navy submarines, "Screaming Seaman." There have been mental breaks on Russian space missions, Soyuz-21. There is an unconfirmed story of an ax murder on a Russian scientific station in the Antarctic. The murder happened during a fight over a chess game. When fist fights began to happen in space missions Russia banned Chess in space. The problem of course was the too-small living and working space and Subliminal Distraction. Several Russian missions have been shortened because of psychological problems.

Circumstantial evidence revealed in the stories of school shooters and mass workplace shooters show that paranoia and un-attributed fear are combined to precipitate the violence. The Redlake school shooter left a journal entry that explains what he did to create those "special circumstances" and exposure. The theory advanced here is that the subliminal detection of threat movement that should cause a vision reflex eventually colors thought and reason to cause paranoia. The same subliminal detection of threat leads to un-attributed fear. The victim experiences intense fear but cannot say what they fear.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder is defined as:

Loss of control on many occasions that leads to serious assaults and property damage;
The reaction is out of proportion to the situation;

No other mental condition explains the violence;

It is not caused by substance abuse, medical condition or other explainable condition.

It is listed in the 1994 DSM.

See Culture Bound Syndromes. Astronauts & Insanity has quotes from Dr. Fredrick Cook's book "Through the first Antarctic Night."

http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/intermittent_explosive_disorder.htm

Amnesia is mentioned on this health related page.

http://www.mental-health-matters.com/disorders/dis_details.php?disID=54

The Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/intermittent-explosive-disorder/AN00306

Links (peripheral vision related)

I recommend this site. But you will have to browse several pages.

"Early in evolution, human ancestors had only peripheral vision. The role of this early vision system (still preserved in our eyes) was to detect motion and set off protective reflexes."

http://www.wayfinding.net/vsionsys.htm

Peripheral vision Lego tester

Adobe file with tester construction and data results sample

http://www.edex.com.au/lego/support/activities/032_peripheral_vision.pdf

Nightwalking

"In The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary swordsman of 16th century Japan, implies that he fought his greatest duels with his eyes crossed, and goes into considerable detail about developing and using this strange abitlity."

The method suggested to engage peripheral vision is to suspend an object from the bill of a baseball cap and practice staring at it rather than looking straight ahead as we all normally do.

The site has a page on the physiology of the eye and sight. It describes the normal field of vision.

http://www.navaching.com/hawkeen/nwalk.html#Anchor-The-59125

Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation

Don't let the site name put you off. This site has several pages which explain sight and how the brain deals with two vision systems.

http://www.wayfinding.net/index.htm

This page has the vision material. http://www.wayfinding.net/vsionsys.htm#four

Speed Reading (peripheral vision)

http://www.ababasoft.com/wider_eye_span/

Vision, is a set of brain level subsystems

This page explains the M & P pathways and vision processing.

http://www.wayfinding.net/visanal.htm

The Red Myth

Color in Vision

http://stlplaces.com/night_vision.html

University of Missouri

The first paragraph on this page refers to psychological factors effecting pupil dilation.

"Interestingly, the pupil/iris combination also changes in response to psychological factors. One sign of activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which is a system important in arousal, fight, and flight, is dilated pupils. For example, sexual interest results in pupil dilation. (This piece of information may come in handy some time.)"

http://web.umr.edu/~psyworld/eye.htm

University of Utah

John Moran Eye Center -- Anatomy

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/

Kimball's Biology Pages

A simple explanation of the eye and sight.

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/V/Vision.html

Understanding Human Vision

This site deals with color.

http://www.pitir.com/pentile/Human_Vision.html

Vision and the Brain

Block diagrams of vision paths through the brain explain the M and P channels.

http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_02/i_02_cr/i_02_cr_vis/i_02_cr_vis.html#2

Study Notes Vision

http://www.utmed.com/studynotes/neuro/VisualProcessing.pdf

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Prevention: This section is now repeated at the bottom of most pages.

The rare occurrence of the injury establishes that is difficult to create enough exposure to cause an injury. But when it does happen the consequences are serious, possibly fatal.

Our personal experience was intermittent human traffic during eight-hour workdays for thirty calendar days.

If you have a tower CPU mount it under your desk. That's the way they position it in a cubicle. The hard drive busy light is about the height of your low peripheral vision if you put the tower on the desk. Desktop reading of text or writing notes beside the keyboard on the side of the monitor away from the tower makes the blinking hard drive busy light appear to approach from behind when you turn to view the screen again.

If you have a computer work station/desk in which you turn ninety degrees to write or do other non computer work, turn off the monitor when you turn aside. Remove screen savers in this instance. The movement, animation for example, in your screensaver, two-dimensional movement, might well be detected by your peripheral vision at close range. Alternately cover the monitor screen.

All home, apartment, or dorm computer workstations are in unprotected workspace. To change that put the computer in a quiet room with no possible movement. If that is not possible in a dorm or apartment position the computer so that your peripheral vision can see only stationary walls as you use the computer in a busy room. In Cubicles and 'Systems Furniture' these protective features are achieved with peripheral vision blocking panels and corner seating positions. It is called 'Cubicle Level Protection.'

If you use computer or CD-ROM games for many hours day after day, the game playing position should follow the same rules as the computer workstation. Battery operated games will not run long enough on a single rechargeable battery to cause a risk for SPVP.

Although a laptop does not have a visible blinking light in peripheral vision the same rules apply to your work position. There should not be human traffic moving to you from behind. There should be nothing behind you, which could enter your subliminal peripheral vision field as you turn your head while working at the laptop and be mistaken for threat movement.

Only movement coming from behind you into your Subliminal Peripheral Vision can cause a peripheral vision reflex. If the movement source approaches you from ahead then enters your Subliminal Peripheral Vision from conscious sight there can be no peripheral vision reflex.

Repeated for Emphasis:

A single session or rare sessions will not cause this problem.

It is the same day after day long hours of play or computer use with detectable movement in ‘Subliminal Peripheral Vision,’ which would form the basis of a risk for SPVP injury.

Exposure can be cumulative

The brain’s detection system only evaluates movement. There is little recognition of the nature of the object in peripheral vision. If you have several hours exposure from human traffic at the library, while reading at an open table or seated in a reading room chair, followed by long hours watching TV with a critically misplaced ceiling fan sweeping detectable shadows around the room, the combination of those two behaviors might cause the problem. The suggestion is that either activity alone would not consume enough exposure time even if the critical movement is present.

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