(Part3) Schizophrenia and the McKenzie Method

Thus the PTSD flashback is a survival mechanism, a means of turning on the automatic pilot and automatically doing precisely what enabled the individual to survive the first time.

We presume the veteran flashes back at the sound of the loud noise because at the earlier time loud noises were associated with extreme threats to his survival, and the extreme threats to his survival caused the experience to be indelibly etched in his mind and brain.

What no one realizes is that more terrifying than war trauma to a soldier is separation from the mother to the infant. For 150 million years of mammalian development, separation from the mother has meant death.

Thus the human infant is very sensitive and can be terrified or overwhelmed by what it experiences as a threat of separation from its mother. Not just the obvious separations such as the mother dying, but subtle ones such as the family moving to a new house, the birth of a sibling, or an older child getting sick and requiring all the mother's attention for a period of time. And if there are five older siblings there is five times the chance of this happening. There are literally thousands of events that can cause the infant to experience a separation trauma and feel threatened - by physical OR emotional separation.

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• mental health
• Schizophrenia
• McKenzie Method
• PTSD
• separation trauma

[hystrionical]

Interesting talk. But why so few hits? But this is something I see among psychiatrists. The reluctance to accept anything outside the accepted dogma. And the resistance to new ideas.