PTSD And Rape Trauma Syndrome Show Up In The Brain

PTSD and Rape Crisis Syndrome
Show Up In The Brain As Damage
**I attended a workshop last week on Hospice services for former members of the military and wrote an article about what was presented. The article will be out this week in the Viera Voice Newspaper. It is about working with people with PTSD in a hospice environment.

I sat straight up and spit out my gum.
It was one of those exciting moments when you knew progress was being made.
After I chopped the gum out of the hair of the social worker sitting in front of me with a nail clipper and chopsticks I was able to better focus and take a few notes on one of the most exciting developments in PTSD diagnosis and treatment I’ve seen in quite awhile.
“The brain is about the consistency of butter” said moderator Charlie Antoni.
I raised my pencil.
“Yes?”
“Salted or Unsalted?” I asked.
“What?” he asked.
“The brain” I said. “The brain and the butter-like consistency of the spread in the head.”
He promised to get back to me with an answer on that.
I always thought the brain was more like jelly.
It turns out as the lights went out and the slides hit the screen that through a new imaging process you can actually see the PTSD in brain. In a Kirlian-like photograph the areas impacted by trauma are plainly visible. In this particular slide they were lurid red flower petals laid out in the frontal and rear lobes.
These photos were made possible by full spectrum imagery.
The machines are already on the market and in use.
There is a machine in Brevard County.
This opens the possibility of PTSD and Rape Trauma Syndrome being reclassified as a medical condition that is both compostable and much easier to classify as a disability.

It is also forensic evidence that something traumatic happened in any given space in time.

This is amazing stuff.

Although the events depicted in this blog entry may have been gonzoed up to better portray my elevated brain chemistry at the news, the information about the brain scans and PTSD is accurate. The events may or may not have happened as depicted in other words, but seemed to occur as I looked for my pencil.

As I said, the information on the brain scans is accurate. We’ve know for quite a while that any trauma changes neural pathways and the body biophysically. To date I’ve never seen a piece documenting what exactly is effected in the body or seen a picture of it.
We’ve always talked about reopening blocked neurology in therapy and rechanneling nerve impulses to impact behavior. These were lofty ideas based on practical work in dance therapy and hard core talk therapy. I had my own experiences to work with as well which include Electrical Cranial Stimulation, Binaural Sound, Meditation and Yoga.
These things worked for me and others and may continue to play a role in a medical situation. It also presents the possibility that there may eventually be better medicines to deal with flashback and other behavior loops.

There has been another serious advancement this week for people who love cats, but not for dinner:

China protest decries custom of eating cats
Animal lovers in Beijing urge southern Chinese province to stop eating cats - AP


This is another gum-spitter in a solid month of craziness.

You’ll find more news in the Eye-Balled News below.









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