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PTSD is a variation of Panic Attacks.
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PTSD is believed to be a mental breakdown caused by the stress of combat or trauma. When Army Engineers building the ALCAN highway in 1942 began to have mental breakdown's no one connected it to 'shellshock' or 'combat fatigue.'
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
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A little known conflict of physiology was discovered when it caused mental breaks for Knowledge workers The Cubicle solved that problem by the 1960's.
Those designers and psychologists thought they had caused the problem for the first time. But the mental events happen other places. For almost 3000 years users of Qi Gong, the slow motion martial arts exercise believed they received medical benefits from their exercise. They did not know why. An elaborate explanation developed that the exercise balanced the flow of "chee" (Qi) in the body. This explanation includes the existence of a Universal Life Force. When too many of the exercise sessions are performed in a compact time frame some of the acolytes have mental breaks.
It is part of the legend of the exercises that there is a risk in attempting to travel the path of enlightenment. Qi Gong masters either deny the mental breaks happen or blame them on not doing the martial arts moves correctly thus misusing powerful supernatural forces. I found one who blamed demons.
In developed countries doctors don't know what causes the mental breaks either but blame other causes such as sudden onset mental illness. This would be called "brief psychotic disorder." No one knows what causes any of the named disorders of the DSM except for PTSD. Trauma is blamed even if it happened years or decades ago.
When Army Engineers constructing the ALCAN highway in 1942 began to have sudden mental breaks while driving bulldozers it was blamed on the stress of isolation and dealing with the harsh weather in the far north.
As
the construction continued the living quarters had to move to follow the
highway.
Culture Bound Syndromes such as Windigo psychosis and Arctic Hysteria have happened for many years. Each mental event has distinct mental event. The behaviors are shaped by ethnic and cultural beliefs.
No one guessed that these mental breaks were the same mental breaks of soldiers in combat. Why would they? The subjects of the delusions and fears were different. In Windigo psychosis the victim believes they are becoming the Windigo or ice monster. That's the bogey man of northeastern native culture. With PTSD the victim has delusions and flashback of combat situations. Paranoia, fear, and delusions of persecution are the elements of a Subliminal Distraction episode. They will shape the delusions in modern man.
When we lived in McDonough Georgia my wife
would refuse to sit at the table and eat. She carried her plate into the hall
and stood there to eat. She said someone was aiming a gun at her through the
windows across the apartment from the dining table.
The belief that different behaviors and delusions describe a separate named disorder is a failing in the DSM. Mental events and bizarre behaviors are grouped then named. There is no knowledge of the cause. No science is involved. Disorders appear or are removed at the whim of the membership.
There is no evidence that the subject of a mental event is the cause of that flash back or psychotic-like episode.
PTSD was created as a diagnosis at the time of the Vietnam War. There have been objections to this diagnosis because there is no way memories can be stored to reappear later and cause mental problems. There is no known mechanism to cause the mental events. It has been suggested that the diagnosis was created in objection to an unpopular war.
There is something that will cause mental events with absolutely no previous indicators or stress, Subliminal Distraction.
The Army has used eight-man and larger tents since the Indian and Civil wars. Those tents are single-room living situations just like the bunkhouses and longhouses that allow Subliminal Distraction exposure where Culture Bound Syndromes are created around the world.
Mental breaks, flash backs, panic attacks, and suicides happen to soldiers months and years after they return from active combat duty.
There have been papers and speeches acknowledging that panic attacks appear with mental disorders too often to be there by random chance. But the reason and mechanism of the connection is unknown.
Panic attacks and depression are outcomes of Subliminal Distraction exposure.
While the acolytes of Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga ignorantly believe the negative outcomes happen because they incorrectly handled powerful mystical supernatural forces they correctly record the symptoms they experience.
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PTSD --- Psychiatric
Times November 2001 Vol. XVIII Issue 11 by
K. Elan Jung, M.D. This 2001 article is typical of the
thinking behind the DSM . As you read this article remember that no one knows
what causes PTSD. Current belief is that: "...severe
trauma ...
exceed ordinary coping mechanisms ..." --- "The majority of psychiatric
disorders are diagnosed according to symptoms, signs and traits. Posttraumatic
stress disorder is unique in that etiology is a primary diagnostic factor..."
--- "...many patients exhibit multiple symptoms concomitantly or at
different times..." ---
"...The classification posttraumatic stress disorder should be
replaced with posttraumatic spectrum disorder, using the following subclassifications:
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p011158.html Do you understand my point? More of
the same. How many more disorders can be added to the DSM? Comorbidity for PTSD and other
disorders, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder," Matthew
A. Friedman, Ph.D., M.D.
"If an individual meets
diagnostic criteria for PTSD, it is likely that he or she will exhibit at least
one other DSM-IV disorder.... In the National Comorbidity Survey, a lifetime
history of at least one other psychiatric disorder was found in approximately
80% of all men and women with lifetime PTSD. Among men and women with PTSD,
lifetime prevalence of comorbid disorders was approximately 48% for major
depressive disorders, 22% for dysthymia, 16% for generalized anxiety disorder,
30% for simple phobia, and 28% for social phobia. Women exhibited greater
lifetime prevalence of panic disorder (12.6% to 7.3%) and agoraphobia (22.4% to
16.1%) while men exhibited greater lifetime prevalence of alcohol
abuse/dependence (51.9% to 27.9%), drug abuse/dependence (34.5% to 26.9%), and
conduct disorder (43.3% to 15.4%) ...."
http://wwsuw.acnp.org/g4/GN401000111/CH109.html If PTSD is
caused by witnessing some stressful situation why are there other disorders
present? Why do the symptoms of PTSD sometimes appear as much as six months
after the traumatic event that supposedly caused them. The prognosis for late
onset PTSD is worse than PTSD which onsets close to the event. This may mean
that some cases of PTSD are misdiagnosed. The subject of flashbacks are believed
to explain the cause. This is not necessarily so. What if ... the
cause of PTSD is a dissociative/psychotic episode created by exposure to
stimulation of the subconscious using peripheral vision as a communication
channel.Accidental Operant Conditioning acting
against each person's memories and contemporaneous mental state creates the
episode and raises those previous experiences to a psychotic level. Flash backs
happen as panic attacks when there is ongoing exposure or a short period of
additional exposure. The subject of the flash back is the most distressing
memory in that person's mind. For instance, if there had been childhood sexual
abuse the episode might feature that instead of events from combat.
Repeats of the exposure cause the same episode and subject because it becomes a
learned behavior. (This is argued as the source of Alien Abduction
incidents on the Barney
and Betty Hill Alien Abductionpage.) Again -- Each different behavior is
categorized as a different disorder. Each specialty group within the authors of
the DSM lobby for their specialty being increased in that publication. T
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