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Copyright 2003 Edit Wednesday February 08, 2012

LeRoy New York mysterious illness.

 Three months ago Thera Sanchez took a nap and awoke with stuttering and body movements resembling Tourette's. When her mother took her to a hospital the nurse said there had been four other girls with the same symptoms. Now there are 12 and boys are reported with the symptoms too.

In a Dr. Drew interview it is revealed that Sanchez got better, returned to school, but got worse again at Thanksgiving. It could not be a toxin or vaccinations for that to have happened.

   The video will be embedded when my copy of Expressions Web is updated. We moved recently and the program disk is in storage.

Click this URL and go to YouTube to view the interview.           ----->     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qHoXVMWALA&feature=related

February 8....  An interview of two girls on Fox this morning revealed that one of them had a panic attack and "freaked out." That is the small episode Subliminal Distraction causes which is believed to be harmless. It confirms this incident is caused by Subliminal Distraction exposure.

If you have not done so visit the "Letters" page for a simple presentation of the problem explained on this site.

Perform my demonstration of subliminal sight and habituation in peripheral vision to experience how exposure happens without the knowledge of the victim. Because of the way your brain deals with the vision startle reflex, subliminally, SD exposure cannot be consciously experienced. Demonstration

A CNN video reports that one of the girls had an episode while having a brain scan and the episode was not a seizure. Many things have been suggested including toxic chemicals but teachers and support staff are unaffected. Teachers would be in the school building longer than students and should have symptoms if it was a toxic chemical problem. Not all the girls had virus immunization so that can't be it either.  Pandas has been suggested but Pandas is only a theorized connection between infections and neurological symptoms resembling mental illness. It is more likely that Pandas is Subliminal Distraction exposure too.

There have been other outbreaks of similar situations some with the same or similar symptoms and others with different but just as bizarre symptoms.

In Ontario, Canada last year elementary school children began to have headaches, dizziness, nausea, racing hearts, memory loss, and trouble sleeping. Parents blamed the new Wi-Fi system that had been installed so laptop computers could be used anywhere in classrooms. Activists with products and books to sell also blamed Wi-Fi transmitter EMR. All investigations by the government and school system eliminated anything at the school related to toxic chemicals, mold, or air quality issues.  Pictures and video taken by TV news crews showed students sitting in each other's peripheral vision, using laptop computers, without Cubicle Level Protection. That's Subliminal Distraction.  Wi-Fi lllness page,

The office cubicle was designed to stop this problem when it appeared in knowledge workers using newly designed prototypes of close-spaced workstations in 1964. Cubicles block peripheral vision for a concentrating worker so they can't subliminally detect threat-movement to cause repeating subliminal failed attempts to execute the vision startle reflex. That effort is a Subliminal Distraction. It is explained in first semester psychology.

I was an engineering student in 1966 when I learned about it. I did not understand I had trouble with the phenomenon sitting in class lectures back then and again when I returned to school in the 1990's. It produced an effect like ADD. I could read a page but not remember what I had read when I reached the bottom of the page.

A pair of safety glasses with wide temple arms opaque or blacked out would prevent most exposure. You can't wear them outside where you must be warned of approaching movement such as traffic. But exposure should not happen with outdoor activities anyway.

Those who work  with the problem have not realized it is a problem of human physiology that will happen every time and anywhere all the conditions to cause it are created and exposure lasts long enough.

In psychology, when the accidental discovery is mentioned, it is treated as something that happened only once, long ago. My instructor said, "Subliminal sight caused a problem in the early days of modern office design."

As a problem of physiology it has always been present in human history. It didn't start when those designers and engineers discovered and solved it forty years ago. Those newly designed workstations were the first place under observation when it happened. The engineers had to solve the problem to be able to sell their new products.

In 1898 there was an incident of mass insanity on the Belgian Polar Expedition. One crew member became a deaf mute. Another hid in small spaces to sleep fearing the others were plotting to kill him. All but one crew member recovered when they worked outside to chop the ship out of pack ice where they had been stranded for a total of thirteen months. Dr. Cook, ship's doctor wrote a book about the incident. Quotes from his book are on the linked page,  Belgian Polar Expedition.

In China a Mahjong tournament produced 23 cases of seizures which local doctors eventually named Mahjong Epilepsy. Mahjong requires intense concentration to plan moves. That's the same level of mental investment as knowledge workers in business offices. It would allow SD exposure.  Mahjong had not produced that outcome before and has not since! These tournaments are held with closely packed tables for players. Any of them would have Subliminal Distraction exposure if there were repeating movement from other players in their peripheral vision. The situation was never solved.

In New York, Sanchez gave an interview where she admitted she had two art classes daily. Another of the girls was interviewed at home while sitting at the family dining table using her computer to do her class assignments. Either of those two situations could be the source of extra Subliminal distraction to cause bizarre symptoms. We all have this exposure every day. It is a normal part of our physiology of sight and usually harmless. Other sources could be using a tablet or texting on a phone where others can walk in peripheral vision. Incorrect computer use is the most likely source of Subliminal Distraction exposure today but the problem was discovered and solved before computers existed.

Because your brain cannot identify the object that moved in your peripheral vision unless you complete the reflex, turn, and look, there can be a string of low level exposure locations or activities that add up to enough exposure to cause symptoms.

If a student's  source of major exposure is at school and they are sent home for home schooling where they do not have the activity for exposure their symptoms will remit. One girl interviewed said her symptoms had gotten better. But if the activity for the major exposure location is at home, then when they stay home for home schooling their symptoms will remain the same or get worse. By staying home they would have more opportunities to perform the risk activities. That happened to Jeff Weise, the Redlake Tribal school killer.

We all have SD exposure every day. It is a normal part of our physiology explained in first semester psychology under subliminal sight and peripheral vision reflexes. Trouble starts when someone creates the "special circumstances" so their brain experiences a massive number of subliminal failed attempts to execute the vision startle reflex, a Subliminal Distraction. (Again, explained in first semester college psychology.)

Any activity requiring full mental investment while there is repeating detectable movement nearby in peripheral vision will allow exposure.

Remember, Subliminal Distraction happens when you should have startled, your brain tried to make you startle, but failed.

A simple investigation of the activities for each effected student would reveal Subliminal Distraction involvement or eliminate it.

Finding locations of exposure then making small changes to prevent SD exposure would allow the symptoms to remit. The length of time required for a remission would depend on the length of prior exposure.

Cases of the full mental break have remitted in as little as a week. Other exposure situations have caused symptoms to last more than eight months. But symptoms will continue as long as exposure continues. That is shown by ICU or Hospital Psychosis. One in three patients who spend more than five days in a hospital intensive care unit has a mental break. The psychotic-like episode stops when the patient leaves the ICU.

There is no treatment or medication for this problem. None should be needed it spontaneously remits.

In fact there is nothing drugs designed to perturb brain chemistry, on the failed belief that mental illness is caused by changes in brain chemistry, can do for this problem. The best description for it is that it is an unrecognized form of operant conditioning. It would be unaffected by anti-depression drugs or drugs formulated to treat psychosis. These drugs have severe side effects. There has been a study that concluded they do not have enough experience data to be widely used.

The high risk situation is if exposure increases so that the full mental break happens. When this happened to my wife she heard voices and had depressive crying episodes about impossible situations she hallucinated. Connie's page.

If one of these students had the same outcome Connie did, then hallucinated an unbearable, unsolvable situation, a suicide might be possible. The Air Force suicide investigation unit has agreed to investigate this phenomenon as the cause of service member suicides. I have a letter from them.

TV interviews of "experts" repeat the "it's stress" mantra. There is no evidence that this is true. These girls were successful, high achieving, high school students with no evidence of stress. ...  The stress diagnosis is only someone's unfounded opinion. Most of these cases spontaneously remit so that any treatment ongoing seems to work. Doctors ignorantly take credit for curing it and move on.

The closest example of the problem recognized in psychology but not well understood is Culture Bound Syndromes. They are small mental events that happen around the world. Each ethnic culture has them. The victims experience the episode in terms of ethnic beliefs. Culture Bound Syndromes

Wendigo Psychosis is one of the native population of the Northern United States and Canada. Victims believe they are becoming the Wendigo, or boogey man of their culture. It typically happened when small groups over wintered in too-small single-room shelters. Hunting opportunities would not support a large tribe during the winter so the members split into small family groups then spread out into remote areas. In the spring some of the families did not return.

The most interesting are the startle matching behaviors. Upon startle the person will copy any activity demonstrated to them. They can't stop themselves. They will perform any act commanded to them even if it is harmful or will hurt others. Often they repeat their last words or repeat the last words spoken to them. This is usually only seen in Catatonic Schizophrenia.

Contact Researcher if you have these symptoms or need help understanding this site. The form on my contact page stopped working so I coded my personal email address there.

This is a testable explanation for these symptoms. By making changes so exposure can't happen the symptoms will remit. That is the only way to determine or prove this is your problem. It won't work for anything else.