Is here a "slow shock" disorder known in medicine?
charle...@gmail.com
it. Why not?
Please, do not confuse it with Post Trumatic Stress Disorder. What I
refer to as slow shock is not the same. It is not the same as cultural
shock, either.
I was in a situation for months in which I was too involved too
closely for too long with too many others. Being brought up, as a
child, without playmates, I was not used to it. My personal space is
large. I had lived abroad and gotten over cultural shock and no trauma
was involved so PTSD was not involved either.
My symptoms involved a slow, day by day, loss of circulation in the
hands and feet. They became so cold I had to wear glovers and several
pairs of wool socks. They were still cold. The blood was pooling in my
abdominal and thoracic cavities. I had so much "heartburn" that I
would eat a whole half gallon of ice cream at a time---yet, relief was
only temporary. I was experiencing too much stress on my nervous
system from what to it was "over-crowding."
Is there a medical or neurological condition known as slow shock?
There is such a concept as "over-crowding." Certainly, we humans are
also capable of experiencing it. Perhaps these are not terms or
concept used in medicine, but they are in biology and, as well, in
social pathology and psychology. There is a certain level of
population per unit of "territory" in which most animals---we
included---begin to feel a build up of stress. It is tempting to think
of our personal space being involved, but there is something we can
call territorial space which also builds stress. With some animals,
the adrenal glands enlarge and they begin dying. These traits evolve
because they either result in pushing out some of their numbers into
new territory and, if that is impossible, a crash in population to
restore normalcy. In other animals, the stress builds up before there
is even a shortage of food and leads to a breakdown in social behavior
which, we humans, would describe as social problems: increasing gang
activities, breakdown in family behavior, and slow shock.
Going on from medicine, psychology, biology to social theory, we
humans can perhaps see troubling consequences ahead in world affairs.
Aren't we also getting too crowded on our Earth? Isn't that why we are
experiencing so much environmental problems and why world affairs
stress has built up so much since the collapse of Boshevism?
And is more known about "slow shock" in medicine? How rare is it?
What does it lead into ultimately? What does it do to blood pressure,
pulse, etc.?
charles
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