What is "slow shock?"
charle...@gmail.com
it.
Please, do not confuse it with Post Traumatic 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 people. 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. 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 nervous system stress from
what to might be called, for me, "over-crowding."
Is there a medical or neurological condition known as slow shock? I
experienced it and it was a major event for me and has had life-long
consequences. Decades later, I have leg twitching when I sleep,
digestive disorders, irregular heart beat problems and am always doing
something with my hands even when relaxed.
There is such a concept as "over-crowding." 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 is also involved with stress levels. 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 not possible, a crash in
population results that restores normalcy. In different 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, etc.---and slow shock.
This can go 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?
I would appreciate any medical information on "slow shock" such as if
it is a known physiological condition, what effect it has on pulse,
bp, and if it can lead directly to death.
charles
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