Subliminal Distraction episodes can be mistaken for PTSD.

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PTSD

Behaviors diagnosed PTSD may be a simple, preventable, problem.

Although PTSD is a widely accepted reason for psychiatric symptoms remember,

it is an unproven theory.

The phenomenon in the military has a long history.

During the American Civil War it was called Soldier's Heart.

Sudden attacks of anxiety, or panic happening on US submarines, and ships are called Screaming Seaman.

The diagnosis of PTSD was created, in part, as a political opposition to the Vietnam War.

But no authority has proposed that all the episodes from apparently different activities

are the same episode caused by a problem everyone has discovered to cause

believed-harmless, experienced as temporary, episodes of psychotic-like confusion

for office workers, in 1964.

There are numerous sites that "explain" PTSD.

What is not understood is that all the explanations are just theories.

Nothing provable is known about the cause of mental illness.

The mistake being made is to assume the subject of the hallucinated episode,

or flashback is the cause of the event.

If someone has flashbacks of stressful combat encounters.

those combat stresses are believed to have caused the episode.

The diagnosis will be PTSD.

Although everyone makes that judgment, there is no evidence to show it is true.

There is no mechanism so that memories of trauma can rise in the mind

to cause flashbacks, hallucinations, panic attacks, anxiety, manic or depressive episodes.

But there is an explanation which can be physically demonstrated.

Subliminal Distraction caused by a "mental break causing design mistake"

can be experimentally created by copying the design mistake, then optimizing it.

Anxiety leading to depressive ideation will be created

with several hours Subliminal Distraction daily over a few successive days. Experiment

That light exposure outcome will spontaneously remit with appropriate rest from Subliminal Distraction.

If someone creates the "special circumstances" to cause a Subliminal Distraction

'office worker mental break' in other places, homes, dorm rooms, or student apartments for example,

as the sudden onset panic attack like episode strikes,

the mind will attempt to construct a scenario of a similar stressful situation

to understand what is happening.

The Subliminal Distraction distressful event can be said to begin in the mind below thought, and reason.

It is a reaction without any other meaning, or recognizable cause, to the effected person.

The event is the brain's reaction to a massive number of undetectable failed attempts

to execute the blocked, consciousness-suppressed, vision startle reflex.

The explanation I was given in psychology class is that

suppressing the vision startle reflex for long periods causes a conflict in the mind.

The conflict builds as the suppression continues until there is a mental break.

The course was taught as part of nurse training for Druid City Hospital, Tuscaloosa.

Psychology training for the Nursing School was at Shelton State Junior College.

It was the identical course, including materials, taught at the University of Alabama in the 1990's.

Alabama students could take the Shelton State course, and transfer the record back to Alabama.

On this site my explanation is that "temporary maladaptive brain reorganization"

happens when the brain discovers the usually ignored,

too quick to be recognized, and evaluated, trigger signal for the vision startle reflex,

subliminally detected neural impulses from threat-movement in far peripheral vision, on the optic nerve.

When the usually ignored impulses happen over and over in a compact time frame,

the brain finds them, and attempts to understand them as vision input.

Without color and shape information that is an impossible task.

Because the trigger for that reflex is "subliminally detected threat-movement in peripheral vision,"

and the trigger signal is movement and position information without color or shape,

the source of the movement cannot be identified until you turn and look

at the source of movement with conscious sight.

Once the startle is blocked, the conscious startle and head turn stops.

If you ignore one source of threat-movement, and the conscious startle stops,

all threat-movement in peripheral vision has been blocked.

Although the completion of the reflex is blocked, the path through the brain of the signal to create

the sudden panic-like surprised startle to execute the "turn to look"

still happens.

The stimulation of the brain locations which produce

the sudden surprise fear which causes the head turn, is still happening.

That action cannot create thought but it can color thought and reson.

But it is happening, undetectably, below thought, reason, and consciousness.

An example of the emotional outcome of long term suppression of the vision startle reflex

with the continuing brain stimulation is fear to the point of trembling without an object of that fear.

When Vince Foster committed suicide in the Clinton administration,

his wife said he was so afraid she had to get in bed and hold him so he could sleep.

But neither of them knew the source of his fear. Vince Foster

The average person believes that human sight creates in the mind

an exact copy of the physical situation being observed.

NOT SO!

Your brain is sealed in your skull, and interprets neural impulses from eyes, ears, and skin to create your experienced reality.

It does this by referencing information learned from previous observations.

When you see a book, you know it is a book because you learned that, and the information is stored in memory.

When the visual subliminal distraction sudden onset panic attack like episode strikes,

your mind must have a reference to understand what is happening.

Since the episode is being generated deep in the brain there is no external clue from the episode,

so your brain must go to memory to find a similar situation.

If your most stressful experience was a combat situation,

that will be the content and experience of the confused episode.

You will experience the episode as what ever is in memory or

has been learned from other's experiences and communicated

to you in ethnic, or cultural beliefs.

Culture Bound Syndromes are evidence of this. CBS

If your manic, or depressive episodes are Subliminal Distraction events,

mistaken for PTSD,

they can be stopped without drugs, or treatment of any kind.

If Subliminal Distraction is the cause of episodes incorrectly diagnosed as PTSD there MUST be a location

and activity where you are creating exposure.

There is no cost to searching your daily activities

for sources of visual subliminal distraction,

then making small changes to stop the exposure.

Since the engineering design problem with the physiology of human sight is unknown

in mental health services, or research, that is most likely the case.

Use this site to learn about Subliminal Distraction. Here

Use pages showing home computer workstation examples to search you work areas. Examples

Subliminal Distraction causing mistakes casually using computers are on the Hollywood page.

Try to remember what you were doing in the weeks before your last episode.

Given what you now know,

are any of those activities suspect as a source of Subliminal Distraction?

Make small, usually free, changes in your work or study areas to provide

"peripheral vision blocking protection."

If (Repeat if) your "PTSD" was Subliminal Distraction mistaken for mental illness,

It will vanish.

How simple is that?

Typical recovery times for an ongoing event once you stop exposure

are from a few days to a week or more.