Posted by Justruckn on December 19, 2007, at 12:39:33
In reply to Re: Does Mental Illness Exist? Feedback Requested!, posted by mindevolution on January 26, 2007, at 23:07:03
The concept of mental illness as brain disease is suspect but the behaviors do exist.
So what causes these behaviors and the altered mental state we call mental illness?
VisionAndPsychosis.Net has published a site on the Internet involving a five-year study of Subliminal Distraction as the source of this mental distress.
SD arises from simple facts of physiology. There are no "off switches" for the sensor cells in your eyes and ears. If stimulus strikes these cells neural impulses go to your brain over their normal channels no matrer what you are doing.
In the field of Design this term encompasses the subliminal detection of threat movement and your brain's subliminal attempts to warn you by executing a startle and vision reflex.
It is a 'conflict in the physiology of sight' that while you can successfully ignore threat movement in peripheral vision you do not have voluntary control of the brain system that subliminally detects and reacts to this movement.
This was found to cause mental breaks for office workers in the 1960's. I encountered it as an engineering student forty years ago. I heard it explained in a psychology psychophysics lecture in the 1990's.
I have been stunned to find that this problem is unknown and unevaluated related to mental illness.
Two exercises Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga both produce temporary psychotic episodes as well as fixed altered mental states that resemble schizophrenia.
When schizophrenia is viewed as an altered mental state it can be seen to be imposed on any number of physical or neurological conditions as long as the victim has competent peripheral vision and can form the vision startle reflex.
Can you cite a case of someone blind from birth having panic attacks, ICU psychosis, or schizophrenia.
Why not? Subliminal Distraction requires peripheral vision, subliminal sight.
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