The 51st State in the Union: PTSD

Murder, madness, mayhem. Incest, child abuse, spouse abuse. Treason, perjury, malfeasance.

Americans are consuming an increasing diet of emotional toxic waste, which grows more poisonous with each new technological advance in communications. If the psychological damage on American citizens gets any worse, we'll have to add Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome as the 51st State in the Union.

More than ever, we are exposed to violence on a never before seen scale. Because of this overwhelming exposure to violence and mayhem, Americans are becoming twitchier than ever before. The result of this exposure to family violence, neighborhood violence, school and workplace violence, and now, the violence of war, is generating an increasing cycle of trauma, drug use, alcohol use, escapism, and, yes, more violence.

A mile across town, in the heart of the ‘Hood, an out of control crack head throws a tantrum in front of her teenaged relatives, and conducts a three way conversation with the imaginary people who live inside her head. She airs a litany of complaints, and blames her addiction and out of control lifestyle on everything from a purported rape attack in childhood by one her mother’s boyfriends, to a recent out of town pistol- whipping.

No one, but no one, she claims, can understand what she has gone through. Her situation is unique and her selfish family isn’t giving her proper attention. To punish them, she punishes herself. Or threatens to.

For years, she made allegations that one of her mother’s boyfriends raped her when she was a child. Her mother slid from the addiction of nightclubs, to the addiction of “the church”, with the ease of a seasoned emotional escape artist. A love affair with the powerful dynamics of the herd mentality in the nightclub soon transformed itself into a toxic addiction to "church".

After being left alone and ignored as small children now the addict and her brothers and sisters suffered the consequences of being the offspring of the ‘barfly cum church fly’, leaving her children to fend for themselves as children, and live with the consequences of her emotional abandonment as adults.

Some became sexually promiscuous. Others acted out, turned to both sex and drugs as escapes. And one, turned to promiscuity, drug use, theft, prostitution, emotional blackmail and attempted suicide.

For more than 20 years she has slid in and out of sobriety and dependency, building a nest of chaos and confusion in her wake. In many ways, her claim of rape is validated by her behavior. She’s almost a pattern card for post-rape Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD).

Psychiatric authorities point to a number of causes and consequences of PTSD, including rape, sexual and physical abuse, repeated trauma, lack of social and parental support, fires and being in a war zone. Consequences include disassociation, acting out, substance abuse, eating disorders and promiscuity. (Roy Lubit, MD, PhD, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children). Lubit says another consequence of PTSD “is the multiple emotional and behavioral problems that can arise…substance abuse, aggression, eating disorders, sexual acting out…”

For children, the anxiety associated with PTSD often keeps them unable to adequately deal with normal childhood experiences such as school. Some authorities believe that PTSD symptom may often be confused with various types of attention deficit disorders. Hence, many children who are doped up on drugs for hyperactivity may be suffering from PTSD.

As is probably the case of the out of control crack head, whose relatives have gotten so many late night suicide prevention calls from the police that they no longer answer her calls. Relatives are raising her children as best as they can, trying to fend off her dangerous attempts at “motherhood” and “aunthood”, both ineffective attempts may be causing additional PTSD problems with her children, nieces and nephews.

Unable to sustain employment, other than selling sex on the street, she has stolen from family and friends, and isn’t shy about lifting the occasional item from a drug store or grocery, if she thinks she can get away with it. Degradation is in her bones, and she wears her madness like an unwashed second skin.

She courts death like a child playing with a favorite toy, intimately and with abandon. The only thing that annoys the snot out of her is that her family no longer wants to play the game. She lost her “control” over her relatives and long-gone friends a long time ago.

They simply got tired of being at the mercy of an emotional vampire, whose out of control street stories and tales of being gang raped, robbed and beaten brought the filth of the streets into their living rooms. The sympathy button has been turned off and her relatives have long since tired of the aborted attempts at detox, and the twitchy, out of control behavior, which takes far too much energy to deal with. They have their own lives and their own children—and they’ll kick her to the curb in a hot minute if it means protecting the children.

Her presence, her conversation, everything to do with her is toxic and is capable of contaminating others in its wake. Her family protects itself as much as possible but the entire situation is a prime example of the delayed effect of childhood sexual abuse.

A medical journal notes that “Studies of adults who were sexually or physically abused as children demonstrate significantly higher rates of emotional problems (72-100%)” than they do as children, leaving many to conclude that childhood abuse may present problems more in later life than in childhood. In short, the adult madness that the crack addict is displaying has exploded more in adulthood than in childhood.

Like this family, too many of today’s children and their care givers are caught up in a maelstrom of malicious events over which neither they have control. Farm children see their parents, grandparents and relatives hauled off their farms in chains. The children of crime suspects are given over to over-burdened Child Welfare Authorities, and are often abused more in the foster home than the “abusive” home from which they were taken. Little old ladies die of heart attacks when drug agents kick in the wrong apartment door—theirs. Children huddle against one another in classrooms, as another out of control child with an assault rifle mows down their fellow students and teaches. And, dangerously estranged boyfriends and husbands gun women down in their workplaces or right on the courthouse lawn.

We can run, but we cannot hide. The 24-hour news cycle won’t let us. Usually, there is enough madness in the US to keep the channels spewing fear and madness, but if the crazies in America go on vacation, there’s always the war to fall back on.

The old saying is still true. Violence begets violence. And madness, too. So, if your neurotic, alcoholic, crack head or meth freak relative is getting on your nerves, just turn on the television, or head to the computer and wallow in somebody else’s misery. It’s all there. And, best of all: it belongs to somebody else.

The sugar and SSRI

as well as atypical psychotic

defenses

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RIP the shooting victims at Virginia Tech

I have sat around thinking and waiting ... because I have STRONG feelings about those shootings at Virginia Tech and what might befall us in the future.

I find that the mass of people I talk to do NOT want to think that there is anything more to this than a MAD MAN. But there are just too many anomolies AND too many parts of a puzzle as to what makes a mind control victim lose it to just take this as patly as the Mainstream Media has and is playing it. So many many suggestions are made; get students more organized and togethr. Don't get paranoid. Get paranoid. and so on and on and on.


The truth is that there ARE overlapping detalis with previous clump murders in the past. I certainly have seen the videos that contradict each other .. why does he have a shaved head in the videos, but the person shown arrested has PLENTY of hair ..? If you want a full run down of some of this kind of stuff, I refer you to prison planet if you are having problems believing more was at work here than met the eyes.

But back to the junk food defense.

I am not even going to post what has been said, but I am gong to post one comment from the blog which ran that argument, because it is easier for you to see it all in black and white from that source, than me researching and digging to bring all this up on the blog. And many thanks to Suzy.

And since this is non-censored "journalism", I do want to point out to people that each time I took HALDOL, something awful happened. Two bonafide suicide attempts. Complete hallucinatory states. In one case I was stabbed in the thigh with it and the entry point of the needle still has a scab and that part of my leg has been numb ever since. That was five years ago! Was I crazy and HAD to have this drug ...? No, I was given it becuz I questioned AUTHORITY in each case. I am thankful I lived through it all ... and didn't hurt anyone.


Comments
Sugar certainly is something to watch out for. Please consider, as well, the common denominator here: Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter, was on psychiatric drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Public Health Advisory of March 22, 2004 identified the side effects of SSRI antidepressants, as: “Anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, impulsivity, akathisia (severe restlessness), and mania (psychosis), have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants.” SSRI antidepressants have documented side effects of suicide, mania, psychosis, aggression and hostility. There are numerous incidents to illustrate the point, most are never publicized. Here are the very few which were: Eric Harris, 18, on Luvox, with his friend Dylan Klebold, killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School, before taking his own life. The coroner confirmed that toxicology reports showed Luvox in his system. Dylan Klebold's autopsy was never made public. Christopher Pittman, on Zoloft, killed his grandparents. Andrea Yates, on Effexor and Remeron-Effexor, drowned her five small children in the bathtub. Princess Diana, on Prozac, and Dodi Fayed died in the car crash driven by their driver Henri Paul, on Prozac. Chris Farley, on Prozac, had a Prozac-induced heart attack. Mrs. Phil Hartman, on Zoloft, killed her husband. A wrongful death court case was filed and settled by the Zoloft manufacturer. T.J. Soloman, 15, on a mix of antidepressants, shot and wounded 6 classmates. Jim McDougal, on Prozac, Clinton's ex-partner, died of a Prozac-induced heart attack after his dosage was increased to 60 mg in prison. Shawn Cooper, 15, on a mix of antidepressants, fired two shotgun rounds on students and school staff. Kip Kinkel, 15, on Prozac and Ritalin withdrawal, killed his parents and 2 classmates, wounding 22. Jeremy Strahmeyer, on Dexedrine, raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl in a ladies restroom in a Las Vegas casino. Jason Hoffman, 18, on Effexor and Celexa, opened fire at his high school, wounding 5. Elizabeth Bush, on Paxil, responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania. Cory Baadesgaard, 16, on Paxil and Effexor, took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. Chris Shanahan, on Paxil, killed a woman. Chris Fetters, on Prozac, killed her favorite aunt. Matt Miller, on Prozac, hung himself in his bedroom closet after only 6 days on Zoloft. Seth Privacky, on Wellbutrin, shot his grandfather, parents, brother and brother's girlfriend while celebrating Thanksgiving. Jarred Viktor, on Paxil, stabbed his grandmother 61 times, He took Paxil five days. Jeff Franklin, on Prozac and Ritalin, killed his parents as they came home from work. He used a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister. Sergi Babarin's, on SSRI withdrawal, Salt Lake Family History Library shooting left three dead. Matthew Beck, on Luvox, left five dead and killed himself. Edward Leary, on Prozac, was involved in the New York City Subway bombing. Nick Mansies, on Paxil, was convicted of killing a little boy who was selling cookies door-to-door. Dana Sue Gray, on Paxil, killed several elderly people. Officer Stephen Christian, on Prozac, ran into a police substation shooting at fellow officers and was killed. A wrongful death case was settled by the makers of Prozac. David Rothman, on Prozac, killed two co-workers and himself at the Department of Agriculture in Ingelwood, CA. Williams Evans, on Zoloft, shot a co-worker at Columbus, Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, then himself. Marilyn Lemak, on Zoloft, killed her three children. Christopher Vasquez, on Zoloft, butchered Michael McMorrow in Central Park. Michael Lubrecht, on Effexor, drowned his own child. Paul Marsh, on Paxil, killed his best friend. Megan Hogg, on Prozac, killed her three little girls and attempted suicide. Vera Espinoza, on Prozac, shot her small son and daughter, then herself. Mr. Cunningham, on Prozac, axed his wife and daughter to death. Margaret Kastanis, on Prozac, killed her three children, then stabbed herself to death. Larramie Huntzinger, on Zoloft, ran his car into three young girls, killing two. Mary Hinkelman, on Prozac, shot her two small daughters and her sister before shooting herself. Lisa Fox, on Prozac, shot her small son and her dog before shooting herself. Dr. Debra Green, on Prozac, set her home on fire, killing her children. Lauri Dann, on Anafranil, shot seven children in an elementary school classroom, killing one. Donald Schell, on Paxil, shot his wife, daughter and baby grand-daughter, then himself after taking Paxil two days. In June 2001, the Paxil manufacturer was found guilty of this murder/suicide and ordered to pay $6.4 million. Gloria B., on Prozac, killed her sleeping 17-year-old son with a sledge-hammer before she attempted suicide. Larry Buttz, on Prozac, superintendent of schools, shot his wife, son and daughter, then himself. Michael McDermott shot seven co-workers in Wakefield shortly after his anti-depressant medication was increased. Julie Woodward, on Zoloft, took her own life 7 days after the first tablet. Rebecca Riley, on Seroquel, Depakote, and Clonidine, died at the age of 4. When I was going to school, no one ever imagined violence in schools. Now we are accepting it as part of life. Evil isn't easy to confront. Note from Connie: Wow! Where did you get this very convincing information? Did you see the column by Mike Adams to which I referred, which also cites antidepressants as playing a role in the shootings?
Posted by: Suzy Hamilton | Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:28 AM

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